Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.
So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.
Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.
Right?
I used Discord for about 15 minutes (OK, 6 months) before I could no longer tolerate it’s crappiness.
Haha, and here I thought my rationalizations for driving like an ass were pretty bad, but you sir make me look like an amateur sophist!
I how down to the bigger asshole driver, and that’s saying something.
I pay for it to have more spam accounts. Free gives you like 5 secondary addresses. For $30/year I get 25 secondary addresses.
Edit: they support multiple ways to pay so you can separate your payment info from your account.
I’m not sure if that’s overstated, it’s news to me too. I’m aware of zinc as a skin-healing treatment, and it has a vasodilation effect through (I believe) topical application, so perhaps that’s being mis-stated (or that lends credence to promoting growth).
I did find this from a quick search.
The rabbit hole beckons - off I go.
Copper is a well-known anti-microbial.
“Allowed”?
I think you misunderstand how legislation works.
Good points.
There’s certainly nuance there to be considered, which my statement doesn’t really address.
Piracy isn’t stealing. At most it’s an IP violation.
I’d argue the creator sees the second purchaser’s revenue in the original price of the product, and the original purchaser may not have bought if they couldn’t resell.
Net sale is the same, just distributed across two consumers.
I’d say mostly that media companies have become openly hostile to consumers - the very people who buy their products - as your example shows.
If I can’t legally buy the media, then I’m left with no choice but to pirate it.
DietPi is such a game changer.
Currently running it in a VM just for PiHole, and the ease of installing anything is nice.
For all the naysayers - I’ve wanted a fold since the S4 (2014ish) when Samsung demo’d two S4’s hinged together.
Being able to double screen real-estate when needed (eg having a tablet sometimes) but carrying it in a phone-sized device makes lots of sense.
And having double the physical space inside offers an opportunity for better heat management - if only to shift the battery to the other side (also means you can fit a physically larger battery).
Lots of potential, but also lots of hurdles to overcome. Unfortunately they’ve all focused on making the screen seamless first, rather than making the software seamless first.
Yea, small business routers (think old Cisco boxes) use a 5A laptop-style power supply. I suspect this is what OP’s using, as I’ve never seen a consumer model with such power specs. Consumer stuff is built around the cheapest hardware they can get away with.
Thing is, I don’t doubt the Cisco box (or similar business units) may need that much juice at times. Put your hand over one that’s not connected but powered on and they get hot.
Stuff like that they really don’t care about power consumption during design, just capability.
Sad but true.
Yes, because it’s ambiguous.
Define sugar.
Define consume.
It’s a blanket statement without nuance.
Also everyone consumes sugars in some form - i.e. Carbohydrates.
The simpler the carb, the greater the volume, the more of a concern/risk.
Such ambiguous statements are a major problem with the medical community these days, as all sorts of things get communicated without any quantification.
Things like you’re at a greater risk of X because of Y.
OK, how much greater? 60%? Or 0.006%? Is that absolute risk or relative risk?
The blood pressure debate is awash with this problem. As is the realm of biologics (used for autoimmune/autoinflammatory diseases) when looking at increased risk for infections. Yes, there’s an increased risk, but across the board of all biologics that increase is something like 1 case in 5000 man-years - with no determination if that’s truly because of the biologic or because they study participants already have immune dysregulation
And for specific biologics and specific diseases, there’s no demonstrable increase in risk, based on massive meta-analysis.
The devil is in the details.
BS
You’re assuming we have any actual power, whether POC or not.
Good luck using a VPN outbound on a properly setup business network.
That would be a major security hole, and likely a violation of any ethics/business practice agreements you signed (but it shouldn’t even work in the first place).
I get mine from a link on diskprices.com
Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.
They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.
Edit: My major exclusion is SMR, since I’ll be using them in a NAS of some kind (hardware or Proxmox). Today I’m all SATA - if you can, go with SAS, drive costs are lower.