Most of the stuff you've mentioned aren't that great a match for Rust. Write something in Rust that you would otherwise write in C or C++. It would help if you said what your interests are.
I've never understood the fuss about Mint, but I thought it was more of a tinkerer's distro? I've been using Debian, which has its warts, but seems to want to minimize loose ends (not always successfully). Some more explanation of Mint's benefits could be useful.
Turn off the sound and used closed captions.
If the drive has bad sectors that it can't read right now, it likely had other sectors that were marginal and got copied (remapped) to new spare sectors before they became unreadable. So there is still potentially recoverable data in the remapped sectors, and not much you can do about it.
Basically, writing zeros to the disk is about as good as you can hope for. If your data is s00per seekrit to the point where you can't stand the possibility of any bits at all being recovered, you basically have to melt the drive. Otherwise, zero it and send it in.
Next time, set up encryption ahead of time, so your new drives never see plaintext. Some drives have a "secure erase" feature that is basically a crappy version of this built into the drive.
Not the onion? You mean they have no French Onion Soup that way, only chicken noodle? Oh well.
Before you can can do that, you need enough renewable generation capacity to exceed peak demand. And of course that will never happen because of the bottomless appetite of AI and bitcoin mining for electric power.
Wait didn't Carter pardon everyone who left the US to escape the Vietnam draft? Hundreds of thousands of people.
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You probably want your own domain name too, but I you might be able to alternatively use a subdomain of namecrane.
Um what? Was this the launch that was going to bring back the ISS crew? Is there a news link?
Ermph, this is C specific and shouldn't be extrapolated to other languages. Since you're writing in C you are trying to show your chops as a low level programmer. Therefore, showing that you know how to implement a hash table is worthwhile, so you should do it yourself. You could add a comment to the code saying something to that effect. Again that's just for C. Implementing your own hash table in Python instead of using the built-in one would be crazy. Implementing one in C++ instead of using the stdlib or some other one would have to be carefully justified.
I do have to wonder what you are up to in this day and age, pursuing what sounds like junior level C projects. I would say that whole approach is something of a dead end. You're more employable with higher level languages than with C these days, I would have to say. Or if you write something in Python that incorporates some C functions that you write using Python's C API, that shows you can operate at multiple levels at the same time, which is even better.
It would help if you said what your interests are. I sometimes hang out on lowendspirit.com (self-hosting on cheap servers) and on budgetlightforums.com (flashlights). The OG flashlight forum (candlepowerforums.com) is still around too, but has slowed down a lot. Or heck, start your own!