2026-03-14

Welcome to my daily blog, my name is Oatmeal Joey Arnold, follow me on social media and on all the websites at Joeyarnoldvn or else. Wait, was that a threat? No way. I'm joking. But that's the thing about me, I'm a nerd stuck in the body of an athlete, born in 1985 in Oregon, been online since like 1995 (or longer) meaning I've been on the world wide web the past 30+ years uploading over 30K+ videos, we're talking thousands of hours of worth of content (I have millions of things online, literally), most of my content is terrible which is weird because I'm a perfectionist who would probably prefer only sharing my best stuff on the Internet. Click here for more information. Quick disclaimer, I sometimes like rant, I speak often from the top of my head opinions, feelings, random thoughts, I often don't even spell check, fact check, or look at what I've been posting on hundreds of websites and apps for decades now. But as I get older, I do try to be more careful as I try to summarize my life, my autobiography, to correct the record as I try to tell my side of the story to combat the Oatmeal Fake News that my lolcow trolls spam the Internet with as they fool people into believing the lies they tell about me. Not saying you should watch my videos. But if they can lie about me, they can lie about you. But I sometimes trolled my trolls to show the world how easy it is to fool trolls who fell for the lies I put out there. Most of what I try to do in my life probably fails big time you might say but I was at least able to scam my trolls a few times over the years. I sometimes utilize sarcasm, hyperbole, satire, comedy, absurdity, Devil's advocate, trolling, scamming, click baiting, out of context stuff, irony, etc. But I often wouldn't tell people when I was trolling or not trolling. If you studied me, you could eventually figure it out. But most of my trolls are too lazy to research beyond the tip of the iceberg which led to my trolls repeating lies they about me which would only take a second to debunk. I felt like I had more trolls at times than actual fans or friends. For more info, questions, feedback, join my Discord servers. I have more to say but I will continue writing some of this stuff other places as usual. Because I write many books worth of content all of my life. You can send your artificial intelligence or AI to give you outlines of my content and what not. But you have to always remind the AI that I've had hundreds to thousands of different accounts, channels, pages, groups, sock puppet alt accounts, personas, parodies, profiles, communities, entities, and so on and so forth, ask me about all of that if you dare. People are free to steal any of my like free content, you don't have to give me credit, do whatever you want. Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. I went to bed at 4 AM. Woke up at 8 AM due to a headache from my infected ears which I got from my nose I got from my cold, resurrected the wood stove fire for an hour while mom told me random news related stuff as she usually does off her phone. Back to bed until 01:10 PM. Added another log to the stove. Breakfast: 01:24 PM. Write your script even better. Make it go slower and slower per round at the very end after it exhausted everything else. It should be as fast as possible at the beginning as it does the trying mode via all options like forward, backward, and all combinations of skipping/jumping bytes too at first in larger and smaller numbers starting with the largest numbers possible. If it was possible to skip 1 TB or 1 GB or whatever the biggest numbers could be. You could try different block sizes if that might help at all. You could perhaps add something in the script to try different block sizes to see if that might work. It's critical to go as fast as possible via the trying mode which should not be round dependent meaning as many or as little rounds as it takes to quickly try all the bytes. Same thing for the trimming mode and then the scraping mode. The script should quickly try all the bytes and then quickly trim all the bytes and then quickly scrape all the bytes. I mean it should try to quickly go through all of that. After that, it could try to go through all the modes again but slower. Think of it like a video game, the script should play all the levels of bytes of the floppy disk at least once through the the three or more modes as fast as possible to try, trim, and scrape. But it will miss some. Perhaps it could go back and then try, trim, and scrape again but instead of the easy mode for the levels or rounds, it is medium or less easy. Gradually, it should get harder and harder. Eventually it should get to harder modes. Put in the script infinite levels or infinite modes where it continues to get harder and harder every time it tries to go through the remaining blocks and bytes that have not yet been rescued by ddrescue. Here is an example of what I am seeing below, it is still not gradually getting harder and harder or slower and slower per round. Yes, you can add a dmesg to check to make sure floppy is still connected like you said. As a last resort at the very end when the script exhausted all options, modes, levels, etc, the script should increase the levels indefinitely to get harder and harder or slower and slower. For example, try to get the script to copy smaller parts. Look at the blocks, clusters, systems, jumps, sectors, bytes, bits, skip sizes, jump sizes, all other variables, numbers, sizes, sections, and more, etc. In other words for example, if it is trying to read 10 bytes for a while, then next time it should try to read only 9 bytes or 5 bytes or clusters or sectors or other things. After that, 4 bytes. After that, 3 bytes. Those are only examples as I don't know the exact numbers but the idea is it should gradually try to get slower and slower. Your script does not seem to continue to get harder and harder. After your chaos mode should be just an escalation mode where any and all of the numbers get smaller and smaller so ddrescue can try to grind at smaller parts. Try to make it continue to get smaller and smaller indefinitely. Lunch: 02:41 PM. The grind levels seem to eventually stop working. You can see this particular floppy disk only has 512 bytes that was not yet rescued. Search the Internet for all the ways to try to get the remaining bytes. It seems ddrescue is not slowing down like it would when I was copying DVDs. You should try to remove the skipping mechanism for the hardest of levels at the very end, especially if there is only 512 bytes left on a disk. The light to the floppy drive was off at the end, there was no more floppy drive noises. I would prefer to perhaps let ddrescue grind in extended rounds at the very end if that is possible, especially if there is only 512 bytes left or the smallest numbers possible after the faster modes are exhausted. Try to make the grinding levels eventually extend each round to perhaps last a second longer than the previous round where it gradually gets slower and harder indefinitely and infinitely where it gradually gets harder and harder where the rounds might eventually and slowly extend to maybe even an hour per round or a thousand hours per round but only if it gradually and slowly gets there while trying all options as it slowly tries to extend each round so each round would eventually get like just one second longer than the previous round. Make the breaks/timeouts/rests between rounds zero seconds if the rounds are under five minutes. Make the script tries to quickly do 3 things: first, try all the bytes. Second, trim all the bytes. Third, scrape all the bytes. But it might not try, trim, or scrape every byte the first time. Therefore, it could try to do those 3 things again using different methods like backwards and other methods. You should try to exhaust the fast mode where it tries all combinations of trying to do those three things via all possible ways but at the fastest speeds and fastest quickest rounds possible. A harder mode would be to try to do those 3 things but a bit slower or harder to try to capture the remaining bytes. It should continue to scale up or get harder and slower. Also study the sample output as you can see the rests continues to get bigger per round but there should be no resting for under five minutes. Make sure everything else from previous scripts that should be there are still there. Shower, 04:30 PM. Fix the script, add a cap/limit to retries to 2 at the end of the infinite grounding phase meaning I want the rounds to get longer but not the retries. During this final phase or highest level, the script should continue making each round longer and longer per round for 200 rounds or two hours of rounds and if not a single new byte is rescued after that, then you should remove the timeout limit to let ddrescue extend rounds as long as it wants to go. Perhaps the script should try to check on the status after five hours to see if ddrescue and the drive are both still active and the script should attempt to do CPR to resurrect it if it appears to be idle. But if it is not idle or stuck or whatever, perhaps the script could let ddrescue continue trying. Night church. But when the guest speaker started speaking in tongues and the music started, mom wanted to go. We filled up around 5 gallons for 20 bucks for the car at Arco near Walmart around 08:30 PM. Resurrected the fire. Dinner: 08:40 PM. Please fix the script. Gemini failed big time. AI often fails with code. I have studied AI for years. AI has blind spots where it is too lazy where it just spits code out without researching. AI will make bad assumptions often which leads to big mistakes. Gemini should remember this or else millions of people will stop using Gemini. Check to see if ddrescue can copy from the floppy drive regardless if the floppy is mounted or not. Gemini failed. I asked Gemini many times to fix problems but Gemini failed many times. The script might be okay, one issue might be that this floppy disk only has 512 bytes not rescued stuck in the bad sector as it was tried, trimmed, scrapped, but not rescued. In the Terminal, some of the longer rounds were around two minutes long but some were shorter. I was hoping to try to extend the rounds. I do not know if it is possible to extend rounds if there is only 512 bytes remaining say for example. See if there are any ways to get ddrescue to try harder or longer to do the remaining 512 bytes. Update the floppy script to make sure it can work with any floppy disk of any stage whether for the first time at 0% or even 99% like my current disk at 512 bytes remaining, I want to be able to reuse the script for new and old disks alike. I sometimes like to go back to older disks I already tried copying. I want to try to continue copying with the script. Make sure this script can work in any situation for any floppy disk of various formats and sizes. Make sure the script is flexible and adaptable enough for anything, for surprises as some of the floppy disks are from like the 1990s or are pretty old of various formats and what not. For the last mile, see if you can slow down the reading speed to 1 byte or 1 bit per second or per minute or per hour meaning as slow as possible, see if you can skip the skipping/jumping, see if there are ways to extend rounds during the last mile to grind longer or differently or harder or additional options of tactics. See if I can turn the drive sideways to help copy or other options. Update the script to make sure the script does everything we have already talked about in this thread like going as fast as possible in tier 1 and to gradually level up per tier. See if you can have additional tiers to make sure it gradually levels up one step at a time to gradually try more challenging tactics that might extend each round but make sure it is not round dependent but tier or level or step dependent. Adapt the rescue_floppy sh script file into the dvd recovery file. One of the issues is the dvd script may have made some mistakes. For example, when I put a DVD video disc into my drive plugged into my powered hub into my Ubuntu ASUS laptop, the script ended up retrying bytes that were already tried. It should have been clear from the map or log file that all the bytes of the disc were tried. I was already on the trimming tier/step/level/whatever you want to call it. Make sure the disc script can work for new and old discs alike so I can reuse the script as I like to retry discs I already started trying to copy. Make sure the disc script can do all the things I want to to do including trying to quickly try, trim, and scrape as fast as possible in earlier stages and to then to spend more time trying, trimming, scraping at later steps/stages/tiers/levels/whatever you want to call it, but it should not be round dependent meaning it could take as little or as many rounds as possible. But make sure it gradually gets harder and harder. I want the script to run forever and ever for weeks or years. But I want to make sure it can go as fast as possible at first and the gradually slower and slower. You broke the code of the script. The name of the sh file is dvd_recovery.sh and the the name of the image file I create using this is named dvd.iso as seen in the script file. I manually move files in and out of the folder meaning do not come up with new names for the files. Just make sure I can reuse the script again and again. Also, I sometimes use this disc script to try to copy all kinds of discs, DVDs, CDs, music CDs, data CDs, unfinalized DVDs, home video DVDs, a wide variety. Food log: Breakfast: orange, oatmeal, 01:24 PM. Lunch: noodle vegetables soup, 02:41 PM. Dinner: homemade bread with butter, raspberry yogurt, 08:40 PM. Tea. 2026-03-14 - Saturday - 11:34 PM - Thao-102 - SAT Reading 26-28. I mentioned the snow, wood stove. She mentioned she likes the sunshine in the rain.