Oh, it’s not just that. Trump wants to setup a bitcoin reserve. Ulbrich had 50,676 bitcoins (~$5.3B at the current exchange rate) that were all confiscated as part of his arrest. He doesn’t get those back just because he was pardoned. Good chance it’s now the seed money for the bitcoin reserve.

You have to be pretty damn naive to think Trump pardoned the guy in a vacuum. That’s not tribalism, but a simple observation that Trump doesn’t do anything unless it benefits himself.

I can only speculate on why. Perhaps they come as a package deal with servers, and they would prefer to avoid them otherwise.

There are plenty of drives of equivalent or more runtime than the Seagate drives. They cycle their drives every 10 years regardless of failure. The standout failure rate, the Seagate ST12000NM0007 at 11.77% failure, has less than half that average age.

Did it ever occur to you to watch the video? Even the first time was a very deliberate movement, and the second time should remove any doubt.

I wouldn’t call those numbers okay. They have noticeably higher failure rates than anybody else. On that particular report, they’re the only ones with failure rates >3% (save for one Toshiba and one HGST), and they go as high as 12.98%. Most drives on this list are <1%, but most of the Seagate drives are over that. Perhaps you can say that you’re not likely to encounter issues no matter what brand you buy, but the fact is that you’re substantially more likely to have issues with Seagate.

Backblaze.com gives stats on drive failures across their datacenters:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/

Seagate’s results stick out. Most of the drives with >2% failure rates are theirs. They even have one model over 11%.

Democrats do the minimum. Republicans make sure we don’t even do that.

Some day, the US might be able to match the anti-corruption measures of checks notes Pakistan.

Yeah, that’s my point.

Consistent problem with fascists who want you to hate outsiders. When those barriers fall, it turns out that most of the “enemy” are just people who want to live their lives.

This goes both directions.

Even for a large amount of RAM that you’d find in a big server, it’s a few dozen watts at most. Here’s some charts showing the jump from DDR3 to DDR4 on a 16GB stick:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ddr3l-vs-ddr4-power-consumption.2012014/

DDR5 dropped the voltage from 1.2V to 1.1V compared to DDR4, which tends to make it even more power efficient. Not quite as dramatic as DDR3 to 4, but in any case, it’s better still.

I recently saw an infographic that showed the risk of death for getting out of bed at 90 years old is the same as the risk of hang gliding. To me, this means you should take up hang gliding when you’re 90.

More seriously, you should take risks to have a full and rewarding life. Those risks can be mitigated. I’ve ridden motorcycles, but I also wear a helmet and safety gear while doing it.

We should stage a conquest of bread.

Just to make a more meta comment, this is a case where cynicism is definitely not helping. We need better journalists to do this kind of deep dive without concern for losing a revenue stream. And not just in gaming hardware, either.

If we cynically label every journalist that does it as “drama mongers”, we’re only hurting ourselves.

Not really. Reviews and weekly news are still their bread and butter. They do a few of these deep dive investigations per year.

And they do very detailed reviews.

Maybe guns will stop coming across the boarder if they ask the CIA nicely?

I’m pretty sure you could make a deal with a local. Only trouble is getting an AK47 over the boarder.

Give it a few minutes.

Education and health care are two places where the administration has expanded much, much faster than either the “customer base” or the people doing the real work. Which is quite odd. There should be economies of scale at work; you don’t need twice as many administrators to handle twice as many workers or customers. Should be a lot less, like 1.2x or 1.5x. However, the actual numbers have gone the opposite way, like 5x the admin staff for 2x the workers and customers.

Hitachi, man. Do you need an air conditioner? A hydrolic excavator? A pussy diddler? A 120mm self propelled mortar? If all of the above, they’re the company for you.