The error message I am getting says this version of the firmware is "not installable". Does that mean it's not compatible? Or just not in the repository for Debian 12? Is there a backports repository that might have it?

Edit: And I'm also getting errors for some Devuan repositories not being accessible. Like they are down or not in the DNS servers.

After the initial confusion I managed to regain access to the actual email accounts by re-entering credentials. But, the recovery account is still unavailable. When the problem first hit I wasn't reading carefully. Not sure if the error messages were the same for all accounts. But with this one Thunderbird is currently saying it cannot get a 'secure connection' and to inform the site owners. Looks like a CERTIFICATE error on a major email provider? Bizarre. Well, if only Yahoo had some sort of service contacts for real people...

But this is still baffling. Why would this occur only for certain accounts? The other two are working fine now. No inability to form a secure connection. Do they really host different accounts on different servers?

In any case, a mistake like that on major provider is really concerning.

LOL... this thread has gone off the rails.

But the first few replies raise some interesting issues. Yes, I have Lutris on the system(s) I am currently using. One is Devuan 5, the other is MX Linux 23.6, and both have games. So this is a quirk of Lutris? Here's the addition problem then. When I accidentally click on the Windows notepad entry that appears in some 'choose what to open this with' dialogs, I get a pop up telling me that the Wine config in one of those game directories is being 'reconfigured' and there is a ridiculous amount of disk thrashing. I have to wait a full minute or more for the mistaken choice to pop up so I can kill it. And then when I go to run that game, I get a similar pop up and a similar amount of disk thrashing before the game will load. Could that be WHY the developers of Lutris chose to do what they did? Does Wine "reconfigure" its files for every program that you start with it? That would be very annoying. I can see why they have the separate prefixes and directories if that is how it behaves.

It sounds to me like GKrellm should be looking in sysfs if it does not. How long since it was updated? Maybe it's time for someone to hack it?

Well, does Gkrellm read from sysfs? If it can be configured to do that, it would solve a lot of problems I have had setting it up on various systems.

That's interesting. Now you're talking about the 'card' drives that don't even use SATA connectors. Power usage doesn't seem to be linear there, either.

Out of curiosity, I popped the cover on a laptop I have to see the tiny little HD. It's only got a 5v rating, and it's .55 amps. The motor must be running in the 5v feed along with the electronics. So now I'm really questioning whether SSDs are automatically less power hungry than spinning disks.

At least these disks I have already bought are intended for desktops. I just want the faster load times. But if I decide to get SSDs for my laptops, I will be shopping very carefully...

The SSD just gives a 5v rating, and that's 1.7 amps. It's a 1 TB model. All of the Western Digital spinning disks I own say 0.68 amps at 5 volts and 0.55 at 12 volts. These are either 1 TB or 2 TB models. So that power calculation doesn't seem to work out for these. Maybe it's something peculiar to this brand? I'll have to see if I can look at the labels of other SSDs somewhere. Maybe I can get a closeup on a website or see one in a store...