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I have been thinking about the area of asking questions recently.
Asking a well formed question is a skill, it's not a given that everyone knows how to ask a well-formed question.
I think teaching kids how to ask a question should be part of what they learn at school.
Salvatore Terress wrote: do I have to spell it out ?
Yes, you do have to spell it out.
Here is a great example of asking questions with a journalist asking Richard Feynman a question, where Feynman points out how the question is difficult to answer ->Richard Feynman Magnets - YouTube[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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(Importunately ) I have to disagree for (simple) reason
such point of view emphasizes the FORM of the question and ( most of the time)
misses the subject of the question.
I have experienced sites which basically stopped the post
because it was not formatted properly or my English was not good enough,
and when my post was accepted it was promptly rewritten.
Of course when
I pointed out that my post was not for purpose of perfect English presentation
I was prompt banned.
And there are sites which tells me that "your past posts were not accepted well..."
All of this is NOT based on
"customer is always right..."
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Oh well, pearls before swine...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The simple fact is the customer is NOT always right and kissing a customer's backside is not the purpose of this site.
The actual quote is, "In matters of taste, the customer is always right." The first phrase is an important point of distinction.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It would be silly to kiss, but insults are acceptable.
My favorite
RTFM
takes few seconds to type, so what is all this fuss about wasting
"volunteer contributors" time ?
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Salvatore Terress wrote: My favorite
RTFM
Mine is DNFTF  
But feeding the troll can be funny too 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Here is a great example of asking questions with a journalist asking Richard Feynman a question, where Feynman points out how the question is difficult to answer
Side note, that might not be the best example video. I only watched the first 30 seconds, but in that clip Richard was being way too literal and not understanding the perspective of the person asking in the common vernacular. As in, we know Feynman is supposed to be the smart one and not the interviewer. But, Feynman can't understand what it means to not know. If you can't learn to communicate with "lesser minds" it's easy enough to argue your mind isn't that great either.
What anyone who understands anything about humans would read from the first 30 seconds of that clip was a display of defensiveness at best or arrogance at worst. Ironically enough, 99% of people who spend time with real people can see that.  Also, you may want to study body language because it's real and useful when reading people.
Love him or hate him, Neil deGrasse Tyson does a much better job of communicating. Which is probably why he's so well-known. Point of all this is, Richard did not come out in this scenario looking like a super genius or even decent at being a conversationalist.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have watched the interview a few times because I thought Feynman was being difficult when I first saw it, I wanted to understand what was going on.
After watching it a few times I think that Feynman wants to answer the question but is himself perhaps a bit frustrated by how difficult it is to answer. I think he is not willing to let himself get away with a simple answer because I think he wants to give as correct as possible an answer to the journalist.
I used to be a fan of Tyson but no longer am, for various reasons - one of them being because I have seen a video where he is extremely confident but factually incorrect - as I have aged I would rather someone was a little bit abrupt but factually correct than giving me a warm feeling from their answer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Fair enough. Totally agree Tyson isn't always correct and he can be a bit of a bully and overtalk people. So, maybe he's not the best example either.  And in full transparency, I don't watch many Feynman videos, but I do know if you're good at communicating and if that was the case that you mentioned, then he should've said that. Right now, we be assuming and that's the opposite of communication.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why would you need CPU memory to read the disk drive?
From looking at their web page, their drives are all SSDs. Open the device, look at the SSD model, and then google the SSD model to see the interface type. Get an SSD enclosure that matches the SSD interface (SATA/M.2-SATA/M.2-NVMe to USB), and connect that to another PC.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Are you sure that your files are saved in processor memory? I would expect them to be on a rotating or solid state disk.
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Your memory module is a Dynamic random-access memory[^] (the second 'D' in DD4). This type of memory doesn't retain anything the moment power goes down.
As others have said, look for somewhere else where your data is stored.
Mircea
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I have a BeeLink also and yeah they are throw aways.
Open the case up and in the bottom is an SSD.
If you can't put it in your computer you can get one of these SSD-to-USB adapters[^] to retrieve the data.
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I had my first real encounter with an M.2 disk a number of years ago, when a (non-computer-guy) friend asked med for help with some problems with his disk. I opened the case to see the model of the disk, intending to move it to another computer for testing. There was no disk there! At least none that I could see. I was extremely bewildered. Fortunately, the PC was so new that my friend still had the documentation that came with it, and I could read not only that the disk is an M.2, but also where I could find it on the mainboard. Oh, so that's what an M.2 looks like! I had heard mention of M.2, but had never looked up a picture of one, and would not have recognized it without the documentation.
At that time, I obviously didn't have an alternate M.2 reader, but we fixed the problem anyway - it turned out to not be related to the disk.
If you open the case in search of a SATA flash disk, you may not find it. I am not familiar with the machine referred to, and do not know whether to expect SATA or M.2 disk. From Amazon.com it looks as if some BeeLink models have SATA, others have M.2.
Note to OP: M.2 and SATA type flash disks are completely different animals; they need different kinds of adapters. If you buy an M.2 adapter: Some of them have USB-C connectors only. If you want to read the disk on an old PC lacking C sockets, you should make sure that the adapter has that option. Usually, you can expect significantly higher speed on the C socket.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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You open it up it either has an SSD or not. Never heard of the M.2 disks, I'll have to check it. Thanks for the heads up!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Never heard of the M.2 disks, I'll have to check it.
Do!
The performance is significantly higher than for SATA disks, especially if your mainboard provides PCIe 4.0 or even better, 5.0 - and the M.2 disk you buy match your PCIe version. But your mainboard must be prepared for it - running an external M.2 through a USB interface is like pearls before swine 
Don't be surprised if you motherboard has an M.2 socket! After I discovered that M.2 in my friend's computer, I went home to read the documentation for my old, 2015 vintage PC (i-5820K CPU). Lo and behold, it did have an M.2 socket as well, that I never noticed before! If Wikipedia tells the truth, M.2 was 10 years old last November. So you might be in luck. Having an M.2 system disk, I never notice neither boot up times or application startup times. (Of course it isn't immediate, but it no longer is of any concern.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Had no idea, my mobo has 2 slots.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Yup, I have an old Asrock mobo here still chugging along that I bought in 2014 (and it wasn't cutting edge then) and that has an M2 socket on board; it's running with a nice 1TB SSD as I type.
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m.2 was before NVMe. very standard
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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As others have pointed out, your link is to standard RAM. Your data's on either an SSD, or an NVME drive. Depending on your specific Beelink model, you could have one or the other (and typically if they ship with an NVME drive, there's also an (empty) slot for an SSD.
Unrelated: I have around half a dozen of these Beelinks; one of them has been upgraded to 64GB of RAM and I use it to lighten the VM hosting load I have on my primary VM host (a traditional full tower). I'm tempted to get another one and also upgrade it to 64GB and retire my full-size tower.
And I agree, their cheapest ones are practically throwaway. I had one die on me (a low-end one) and just moved its drive to another one, and I was immediately back in business.
Prior to that, I went through two Intel NUCs. Both of those are dead - one never turned back on after a major, multi-day power failure, and the other ran way too hot and (I suspect) the CPU just burned out. Both NUCs tended to run hot, and IMO have poor thermal management. That's when I switched over to the Beelinks--I'd never go back to Intel. But then they exited that business, I suspect my experience with them was not unique...
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Quote: these things are throwaway
NO, keep it and will end up in a museum in about 30 years or so. 
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Quite possibly since all of the others are likely to have been thrown away.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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as others have said, your link is for RAM not storage.
I'm looking at the internals of this thing, and it would be a trivial matter to pull the SSD and copy the contents. Over the years, I have accumulated numerous devices that can access things like this. If you want to do it yourself, look for something like "USB 3.2 Gen 1 to M.2 SATA " that you can plug your m.2 into.
Some caveats:
- you say bricked. that might mean you lost the SSD. You are out of luck.
- Windows can get fussy accessing drives from other machines. Linux can usually circumvent issues like this.
Message me if you want to go deeper.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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