Did this article really need ai pic of an HDD when actual pics exist & are freely available?

Are ESP32 secure enough to have them directly on the internets?

… And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.

Lmao, it prob doesn’t even have a working software kit, you would have to arduino some shit yourself.

I don’t think you understood what this is & who is it for.

Why even connect to internet if it can hallucinate the entirety of it??

Great, let’s scar the moon for some greed.

Twinkphone will require socks.

“Moral issues” or “to leave a better tomorrow” for the ppl I don’t wish to talk to all that much (or just can’t have a proper convo with them).

Yes, good points, but what can make financial sense doesn’t need to make economical sense.

Perhaps in such events we can transition to smaller, maybe RISK-V boards with components from various manufacturers.

But yes, I too keep hoping consumers would speak up & stop bs practices. Then again, if we kill a consumer industry you can’t just bring it back in a year, and megacorps can weather in the meantime by offering consumers short-term incentives if they make the switch. It’s how all the personal data collection by private corps started, why eg Google had free services (and no ads) & yet was already being valued in the billions.

Goodbye local Windows with Linux having a 3% market share means entirely different market & society too, regardless of our Linux desktops that can’t get new parts.

After 20 years when your CPUs, RAMs, and at least SSDs don’t work anymore, and the PC supply never came back - how are you going to show/trick the government that you are a patriot that uses & supports one of the three big USA private AIs?

This isn’t uncommon, even I have that option at work. None of this is new tech.

It’s just a long existing tech now used to close down on freedom & paywall all the things.

Enough capital can reshape even a somewhat free market into a non-free one - if we, the demand, have basically no other choice (except revolt, but we forgot/got that erased from our consciousness) we usually just try to survive.

The mythos about how things are getting better for each generation of humans is false.

I hope that future happens, but I’m scared.

No Tumbleweed fans? :/

They (openSUSE) make a lot of default decisions for you, but it’s really close to 0 maintenance if you lack the time (or just cannot even for months at a time) & still a rolling release, zypper, etc.

Yes, these are also exactly my thoughts (& also why it’s prob fine to recommend lightly used derives - but maybe not 10 year old drives).

Also SATA. There’s basically no difference.
(We don’t have all the same needs, so no right or wrong answers. All my current HDDs are SATA, which saves me one smol hassle in potential migrations/changes/salvages/troubleshooting, but nothing major. Perhaps they were even a little tiny bit cheaper new than the same with SAS, but that’s not a rule. I do have two SAS SSDs bcs they looked cool & I wanted to have them even after they become obsolete.)

Oh, and to clarity the mythos around why “enterprise” in cases when the hardware seems the same CMR - this night not be true, but I feel some components (eg on the board) might be better grade or suited by design to work 24/7 or survive hours of some work intensive load (like ZFS repairs). And finding data/reviews on such stuff whilst having other priorities/restraints (loudness, price) is hard.

Ok, but how hilarious would it be if a series of vulnerabilities (software & hardware) would be discovered that wound allow just that (set fire to the battery), lol.

My last HDD failed in ATA (so consumer stuff, the legendary Deathstar) era, not one in 3 home NAS systems - I’m just saying your millage can very & is luck based.

Also RAID will have more reads/writes than non-RAID systems.

Just fyi in case it helps someone, from the “basically enterprise” level only Exos & Red Plus (not Pro) are “quiet” in a rubber caddy (bcs HDDs acoustics come from the drive as well as vibrations passed along the rig). But the later are very smol.

Yes, but enterprise grade stuff on second hand market is basically always fairly priced (you don’t get a “good deal”, just a normal one).

That said, I would still rather go refurnished server disks than desktop, especially lower capacities.