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To expand on @doeknius_gloek’s comment, those categories usually directly correlate to a range of DWPD (endurance) figures. I’m most familiar with buying servers from Dell, but other brands are pretty similar.

Usually, the split is something like this:

• Read-intensive (RI): 0.8 - 1.2 DWPD (commonly used for file servers and the likes, where data is relatively static)
• Mixed-use (MU): 3 - 5 DWPD (normal for databases or cache servers, where data is changing relatively frequently)
• Write-intensive (WI): ≥10 DPWD (for massive databases, heavily-used write cache devices like ZFS ZIL/SLOG devices, that sort of thing)

(Consumer SSDs frequently have endurances only in the 0.1 - 0.3 DWPD range for comparison, and I’ve seen as low as 0.05)

You’ll also find these tiers roughly line up with the SSDs that expose different capacities while having the same amount of flash inside; where a consumer drive would be 512GB, an enterprise RI would be 480GB, and a MU/WI only 400GB. Similarly 1TB/960GB/800GB, 2TB/1.92TB/1.6TB, etc.

If you only get a TBW figure, just divide by the capacity and the length of the warranty. For instance a 1.92TB 1DWPD with 5y warranty might list 3.5PBW.

To make it worse, we have our own in New Zealand, which is the (worldwide) original of that format. The Aussie series is a spin-off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Patrol_(New_Zealand_TV_series)

And even apparently from name brands.

My sister bought a low-end Samsung tablet (some years ago admittedly), and it NEVER received a software update in the 3 years she owned it. Not a major update, not a security patch, nothing.

I’d hope they’ve gotten better about that, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Except that they’ve ruined that too. You now need an account to view anything, so the reach of announcements is greatly diminished.

At this point leaving shouldn’t really be too difficult, since a large portion of your audience already has; because they’ve been shut out, or have quit voluntarily.

You just know that if they did have a support email address, it’d just reply with “💩”.

Also - and I realise this might be contentious - but I’d suggest one that takes normal batteries. Mine takes 4× AAA.

With Eneloops (or similar low-self-discharge rechargeables), can have a 2nd set that gets you back up and running in under 30 seconds, and if you get really stuck they’re sold in every corner store in the world (heck, throw a pack of Li-FeS2 batteries in the emergency kit, 20 year shelf life).

No worrying about having the right charger cable (commonly a Micro USB, something I don’t tend to carry anymore), or remembering to charge the thing lest it go flat right in the middle of what you need to do.

This video about ex-Soviet RTGs of questionable radioactive source choice is quite a good watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8-b5YEyjo

NASA apparently used RTGs for deep space missions only, while in the same timeframe the Soviets scattered them all across the countryside, then promptly forgot about them.

T’ain’t enough. Gotta block everything they do, everywhere on the internet.

As someone so eloquently put it: you might not have a facebook profile, but facebook has a you profile.

If you’ve ever seen a “share on facebook” button on another website, they’ve been watching you.

As of USB-PD 3.1 there are now nine fixed voltages - 5, 9, 12, 15, 20, 28, 36, and 48V - and two variable-voltage modes; PPS with 3.3 - 21V in 0.02V increments, and AVS with 15 - 48V in 0.1V increments.

Combined with a few different current limits, some of these features being optional, and then doubling down with what your cable does or doesn’t support, amazing anything gets charged at all.

Induction elements “cycle” on and off – hundreds or thousands of times per second […] There is no human perceptible duty cycle

See unfortunately what you’re describing here are good induction stoves, which is not the majority of what is on the market.

I’ve seen far too many of the bad kind, with duty cycles measured in the tens of seconds. Your 7/10 on the dial could be - like a non-inverter microwave - something in the neighbourhood of 7 seconds on / 3 seconds off. At that point they can actually be worse to use than old halogen glass cooktops, which at least remain hot during the off part of their thermostat’s cycle.

This is not even just cheap no-name crap either, have witnessed it with big-name-brand in-bench stovetops with four-figure pricetags.

If you’re doing something like poaching eggs (which typically calls for a wide, flat pan), you’ll actually see the water starting and stopping boiling in a cycle as it switches. Absolutely terrible.

Yeah, it’s joined Facebook and Twitter on that “do not click” list for me.

You’d think that quitting cold turkey would have been hard, but it somehow just hasn’t been.

Sony pioneered that one, I reckon over the lifespan of a phone - especially since people tend to keep phones longer these days - it does make a difference. I’m glad other manufacturers have done the same (I believe Apple has something similar, and maybe one other Android OEM).

My Xperia 1ii (mid 2020) still reports around 83% of its original battery capacity, and it’s been plugged in overnight more or less every day of its life.

do they even offer any?

On non-LTS releases? Almost certainly not.

You’re 100% on the money, if a broken non-LTS release - which you can still upgrade to from an earlier release with do-release-upgrade, or install from the server ISO then apt install the UI - something has already gone horribly wrong, and a couple of days wait for a re-released ISO is by far the least of your problems.

Happened to me once.

I hit the home button on the headunit to dump out of Android Auto back to the headunit’s UI, went back into AA, and it reappeared.

Hasn’t happened again since.

pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6

If you’re lucky, you may not even need this step.

Buying 4-pair cable in Cat5e-or-better spec has been cheaper than 2-pair Cat3 “phone cable” for probably around 2 decades now, due to the vastly higher quantity of it being manufactured, so in plenty of newer houses the phone lines are wired with it.

You could still get unlucky and find the jacks are daisy-chained, but having a central wiring panel where they all connect to became popular in a similar timeframe.

Bit of a long shot, but in the best case scenario all you need to do is replace the jacks.

Agree with all these points about the Nexdock.

We bought a bunch of them at work to be KVM consoles for computers without network out of band management, and at that they excel.

That said, I don’t think I actually knew it had speakers, wasn’t really part of my use case :)

It also makes me wish that USB-C connectors on GPUs hadn’t been such a short-term deal, the one-cable hookup is definitely a great thing.

I’m curious if this $69 watch turns out to be any good:

https://intl.cmf.tech/pages/watch-pro

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23891328/nothing-cmf-buds-pro-watch-charger

Claims more than a week of battery life, and while not offering 100% of the features of a Wear OS device, if you’re used to a Pebble it might be a comparable feature set.

I thought it might be sensible on Linux to use MS Edge for Teams (the PWA version).
Nope, it’s just as shit in Microsoft’s own browser. There is apparently no saving it.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a pcie card that will not function at all unless it receives it’s required lanes

One of the few things that’d be problematic would be the x16 -> quad M.2 cards which use PCIe bifurcation.
Lanes 1-4 from the socket are wired to the first M.2, 5-8 to the 2nd, etc.

It would still work (by some definition of the word), but in the sense that the first M.2 drive would get 1 lane and any others wouldn’t be connected.

(Quad M.2 boards with a “PLX” or other PCIe switch chip would work fine with 1 upstream lane serving all 4 drives)

That’s great, unless the store you’re in is a giant concrete bunker.
Mobile data barely works in my neighbourhood supermarket; even text-based communication is frequently dicey, but you want to send someone a photo of something as a “should I buy this”? Fuhgeddaboudit.