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- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 days ago:
I’ve got 6 in a random mix of brands (Seagate and WD) 8-16Tb that are all older than that. Running 24/7 storing mostly random shit I download. Pulled one out recently because the USB controller died. Still works in a different enclosure now.
I’d definitely have a different setup for data I actually cared about.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 days ago:
Hard drives aren’t great for archival in general, but any modern drive should work. Grab multiple brands and make at least two copies. Look for sales. Externals regularly go below $15/tb these days.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
I’ve been charging my phones exclusively wirelessly (not counting plugging in cars or emergencies) for about 15 years. From Lumia, to OnePlus to Pixel now. Zero issues.
Even iphones finally invented wireless charging a few years ago and it works very well.
I realize it’s not as efficient, but I charge overnight and we’re probably talking about $10/year in losses.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Could you name a few successful boycotts? I did a quick search and recent examples don’t seem that successful to me. Amazon is still doing amazingly well and Nestlé is still killing people.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you watched either video.
He very specifically said it’s nearly impossible to take off without flaps because plane will aggressively complain about taking off in incorrect configuration.
He also very clearly said that new footage made RAT deployment obvious and that’s why he changed his opinion.
Not defending him or trying to convince you and I’m certainly not an expert, but he knows what he’s taking about (a lot of his prior analysis was confirmed by investigators) and is not afraid to admit to being wrong. I have no reason not to trust him.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 4 weeks ago:
Did some new information come out? Last analysis video I watched seemed to point to pilots accidentally retracting flaps instead of landing gear.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 months ago:
It’s relatively inexpensive and makes life much easier for people who are not tech savvy. Your position is that of an incredibly egoistic person that never had to help an older relative or dealt with an adult who doesn’t have time for random bs during an hour or so of downtime most people get in a day.
If spending hours trying to figure out which “free” streaming service had not gotten shot down today and magically has the content you want is worth less to you than a one time payment of a few bucks to plex, then you really don’t value your time.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 2 months ago:
Red light cameras are fine as long as they work properly, but fuck the speed cams. Glad they are still illegal here.
- Comment on Anting 2 months ago:
I’d agree, but the joke was funny.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 2 months ago:
Also zypper is a fantastic package manager.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
You do know Firefox has profiles you can use to effectively make it two (or more) separate browsers?
Not shitting on Waterfox, just FYI.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 3 months ago:
Huh? I can reach my site via curl that has neither. How did you come up with this random set of requirements?
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 3 months ago:
I’m not sure how they actually implemented it, but you can easily block ML crawlers via cloud flare. Isn’t just about every small site/service behind CF anyway?
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 4 months ago:
Sensors are cheap and have been around for a long time, but I’m going to guess the number one reason is the small part. Fewer cars = less traffic.
I’ve actually watched a city I visit regularly grow over about 20 years and it went from them having zero traffic to Los Angeles style traffic jams. This is despite their best efforts like making extra wide roads, using roundabouts, etc.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 4 months ago:
So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.
Is Symbian still good these days?
- Comment on Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence 5 months ago:
Your comment is too well articulated to assume you’re really naive enough to believe that’s a valid comparison. CA is a state in a massive country. What state handled homelessness better? What state has a bullet train?
I agree that CA/LA is poorly managed at many levels, but your arguments are nonsense and it has nothing to do with CA being democratic.
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 9 months ago:
I did, they didn’t work until I installed the preview version. I think this hardware is too new. I have the Asus ProArt 16 with Ryzen 9 HX 735
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 9 months ago:
I nuked windows to get rid of malware manufacturer installs
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 9 months ago:
Only way I could get a bunch of drivers for my new laptop. Had no Webcam, no sound and only limited TouchPad functionality until I installed a preview version