Firefox’s default in-built download manager is hot garbage. It is so much more reliable to download multiple large files at once with a resource-friendly download manager.

I did perform the self-test function, the long version that says it will take 10s of minutes. Some of the errors were displayed with red text before the test. After the self test, it said that my drive passed and all the red errors showed up as “Old age” in black text, every single one.

(This is in the GUI app for smartctl)

It’d be bad if I were working on something and the entire thing just suddenly broke down before I have the time to save and backup 😅

I used the GUI program for SMART and the list of issues got marked as “old age”, all of them.

It’s the same error, no matter how many times I reinstall. I assume it’s a hardware issue

Yeah the important stuff is backed up, but I am still concerned my entire OS will suddenly go kaput. How fucked am I?

Yeah… I am so sorry but I’m just a beginner and all I see here is a bunch of jargon. I am trying the solution that @nightwatch_admin has suggested here at the moment.

Could you please point me to some sort of simple guide/video? If that’s not too big of a hassle

Yeah, it doesn’t :(

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