Could have just been injured. Electrocution doesn’t always mean death.

According to Miriam-Webster, the definition of electrocuted is:

to kill or severely injure by electric shock

It’s probably more accurately described as extortion phishing. With blackmail, I think you actually have to have damaging information that your withholding in return for payment (or other benefit). But this is clearly a non-tatgered phishing attack sent to many individuals in the hopes of extorting a payment, without the sender actually having anything damaging on the recipients.

https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/blogs/extortion-phishing-scams-what-they-are-and-how-protect-yourself#defn-phishing

Psychedelics have helped me to retain those feelings long after the trip has ended (some indefinitely, at least at time of writing this). I never appreciated a cool breeze until one of those experiences (I always wanted to cover up and shield myself from it before). Now, whenever I feel a cold wind or cool breeze, I appreciate it so much more because of that past experience.

Sly way for the article to be titled. It’s almost as if they’re trying to mask Meta/Facebook being the owner of it.

I’m loving it! There’s definitely a learning curve to the fediverse, but it’s been an enjoyable process and I haven’t felt the need to go back to reddit since switching. All the communities I cared about on reddit either ported over here or have equivalents, and I find the user interactions in comments to be much more level headed and engaging.

Edit: I will add, I have had to supplement some of my news feeds with RSS, but that’s been something I’ve wanted to try for a while. So I’m not particularly disappointed in giving RSS a go.

Can you run dd with the “status=progress” option set to see what’s going on when it stalls? Also, how long until it stalls? In my experience, dd takes a really long time to write over an entire drive of that size, so you may just need to wait it out (could take a couple of days). You can also try increasing the block size (e.g., “bs=8m” or “bs=8M”, with the case of the “m” depending on your OS) and see if that helps to speed things along. Typically, the default dd block size (512 bytes) is pretty slow.

Note: I’m far from an expert but I have been using dd for similar applications as you for a few years. Hopefully something above can be of some help.

I will return anything sent to me in an Amazon package.

I went directly to your site for a reason, which is to avoid Amazon. If you secretly fulfill from Amazon or Amazon Warehouses, I will return the item and shop elsewhere.