I have been using recertified, or used enterprise class drives which have a crystal disk info good health report. These have waaaayyy higher MTBFs than consumer grade, as in 10x more, so a drive with 40.000 hr. on it, may have 10x *theoretical *the life left. do remeber that the M in MTBF means mean, it doesn’t mean guaranteed time between failure. Enterprise drives tend to be noisier.
A alternative that works well for me for many things is buying from Lidl. They source from China, or wherever, but through European importers. They have a three year warranty, parts or replacement at least for that period, their branded products meet EU safety standards, and are good value. Not everything is perfect, but I’d say that about 80-90 % of what I buy meets or exceeds my expectations. Selection is orders of magnitude lower than Amazon, Aliexpress, etc, but their online catalog is growing fast.
Tools in particular are great value, they have a great battery ecosystem for their power tools, and even have a prosumer line (parkside performance, the black ones), that are impressively close to pro stuff from DeWalt, Makita, etc…)
The article is clanker slop. It’s mostly reiterative, a clear sign of clanker slop. Clankers are reiterative in their slop. A lot of clanker slop is reiterative.
They don’t recognize bills. They recognize a pattern of tiny yellow rings in the bills, the Eurion constellation, which can barely be seen by the eye. This supposedly will stop copiers and printers from scanning or printing any document that has these.
Bypassing these is trivial.
Figures they would do that there. Actually, swamp coolers should work well there (I’m assuming it’s dry there). Mist systems also work surprisingly well in dry climates.
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions when they all started pulling price shenanigans.
Now I either use Stremio, properly “Arrified”, or sail the high seas with qbitorrent, which, by the way, has a very good search function not enabled by default, and which many people don’t know about. (Google qbitorrent search jackett)
To look for things I usually go to rotten tomatoes.
Also, there are frequent posts here or on other sites where people post their favorite shows/movies, which are often great for discovering less known shows.
Investors should have learned by now that Musks endeavors are 100% ADHD cycle projects; hyper focus, obsess, launch, start to lose interest, hop on the the next, abandoning previous project, instead of building on the success.
Upvoted for proper spelling of “Lo and behold”.
A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.
Things are probably going to get worse in the short term, but the AI bubble is going to burst. Magnitude? We’ll see, but when investors realize that these companies cannot make a profit, and open source frontier models that allow you to run AI in house are removing vendor lock in, things are going to change. Also, LLMs are a dead end, and have little room to improve.
Newer paradigms are appearing, such as Yann LeCun’s JASP, which actually learns, and other approaches, which will make LLMs obsolete, and are way less hardware intensive.
Another factor is the Chinese closing in in consumer grade RAM. If it can be proven that no backdoor or other shenanigans are there, they will balance things somewhat.
While current reality is what it is, there may be a massive social and traditional media manipulation by the big three and other interested parties to fuel fear of rising prices forever, to push people to buy as much as they can at these prices. I have no proof of this, but I don’t think it’s far fetched.
And let’s not forget that for media outlets, fear and tragedy sells. (I think Hearst or some other news mogul said that last century.)
I agree. Definitely better, yes. What I was pointing out is that the whole organic/Bio thing can be deceptive, often in a subliminal way. There is quite a bit of marketing there.
That said, I do buy BIO eggs, free range chicken and meats, the whole shebang. I just try to remember that it’s better than regular industrial, but not from my great aunt’s farm.
What I haven’t made my mind up about is fish. I do fish, and eat what I catch. Sadly only in the summer, as I’m landlocked most of the year. The thing about intensive fishing VS. intensive fish farming causes me a bit of unease.
There, there…
I believe the EU requirements are minimum space (6 hens/sq. meter, not exactly running space), and organic feed, which is basically no GMO, no synthetic fertilizers/pesticides. grain-fed labeling is only compulsory if you label as such. Fish flour feed, if it’s from fisheries, is allowed, since it’s from wild origin.
I used to be a partner at a company the produced BIO produce. The things we were allowed to do within EU rules would surprise most consumers. Things like using copper sulfate, and other “natural” pesticides without limits, phosphate and other fertilizers which are not synthetic, greenhouses with artificial lighting, etc.
From your user name I’m going to assume that you are a Finn. It’s possible that Finland has stricter rules for BIO/organic (good), but EU regulations are way less strict than what people assume. People see the BIO/organic label and assume that grandma was hand feeding the hens from her apron.
Rocket Lab, and other space companies, are also being dragged down because they are bunched in for being space economy, despite being a way more sensible company. I predict that the Xshit sandwich will gradually lose steam, while RL will steadily climb again, and skyrocket (I am legally required to make that pun) when Neutron launches. That’s my bet. Then again, Tesla is still obscenely overvalued, despite selling objectively last gen EVs that have dangerous fake autopilot, and which are effectively subsidized in the US by the gov’t by virtue of bans and tariffs. Large funds, billionaires, and many retail investors are buying Nazitard’s stock like meme stock buyers. There is going to be a lot of hurt sooner or later. BTW, how is starship, or whatever the exploding giant dildo is called, doing?
Out of school? Kind of. I wrote my first programs on a PDP 11 on a TTY. An actual perforated paper, daisy wheel TTY. No CRT. I was an admin of a Wang VS100 in the late 80’s. Later I was a systems Manager at a small campus, and admin’d one of the servers myself, in the gopher/usenet era. My first browser was mosaic (Or was it Lynx? can’t remember), and I coded my first website in HTML, no version number, HTML. Last time I bothered to look, my reddit account was 17 years old, and that was my second acount, I lost the password to my first, older account. So yeah, I was out of school. I do look younger than I am.
I really don’t get this outrage thing. Outrage because all eggs become expensive? Yes, because they are close to essential, or at least very important for a lot of people’s diet, and they all get more expensive. Outrage for some game platform shenanigans? Don’t give them your fucking money.
That is not a bubble, it’s a shortage caused by a bubble.