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PSA to always run a full length SMART check for any drives you buy, even from OEM. The short test and log are not enough, I have bought faulty drives that someone had reset the logs and power on hours.

All passed short SMART test, but failed long SMART test after only a few minutes. Found just one drive that the skrub forgot to wipe and the log showed 6 continuous years of power on usage.

Even from OEM, you will at least know if the hardware is DOA which you can then RMA.

~~H.265 encoding and for your sake I hope that's not YTS's crap tier bitrate~~

I mean uh... Kung Fu Panda or WALL-E

some day

I don't know if mac has something similar, but you can run a command on linux to list all the CPU vuln mitigations applied, and its hilarious to see on something old like a skylake or haswell with the amount of patches that have dropped since release.

I really don't care how much the US complains about Chinese nationalism when they pull the same crap in practically every 3rd world country for the sake of holding power.

There's a reason why so many 3rd world immigrants in the US feel unfazed by Trump because they essentially grew up in some Washington backed imperialist government which was way worse, hence the reason they emigrated.

They understand that neither country is some beacon of hope, they're just two big competitors that keep each other somewhat in check. The tradeoff you get for joining the US is freedom of expression and representation (mostly) and the tradeoff you get for joining China is faster upward momentum and social stability (mostly). Its better to have at least two choices instead of one which in reality would be none.

Yes there will always be sketchy things you probably shouldn't touch, but we're really out here defending internet censorship over TikTok as if the NSA doesn't have 2/3rd of the modern world permanently bugged.

I read this entire comment synced to smashmouth lmao

Buddy that's a Lexus. The corect way to sit in those is to put the seat low and far back than what even a bucket seat would do. You should basically be so reclined like it's one of those sofas from a shrink's office.

It'll take you a few minutes to adjust to the new ride height and gain your superiority complex over the other peasants on the road.

All the free widgets that used to come preinstalled in Android before Google killed them to save the extra $2 of development cost from their yearly interns.

Whenever the new standard hits the almost impossible golden triangle of "cheap, reliable, and fast".

It's gotta be cheaper than the alternatives, better and more reliable than the alternatives, and faster/easier to adopt than the alternatives.

Early computers for example had various ways to chug math, such as mechanical setups, relays, vacuum tube's, etc.

When Bell invented their MOSFET transistor and figured out how to scale production, all those previous methods became obsolete for computers because transistors were now cheaper, more reliable, and faster to adopt than their predecessors.

Tbf though transistors are more of a hardware thing. A better example of a standard would be RIP being superceded by BGP on the internet.

Pakistan whenever India opens its mouth about being the world's biggest "democracy":

Dear God at least give them a chance with IBM.

Oracle would use it to sue Facebook and YouTube for stealing their IP for vertical video, all while the platform combusts.

hmmmmm....

Actually on second thought.............