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Backblaze regularly releases failure rate statistics of their drives, and it’s often a big enough dataset to be quite meaningful. I haven’t been keeping up with it lately, but there certainly was a period of time where there were substantial differences in the failure rates of different manufacturers.

So while you do still need to have drive failure mitigation strategies, buying more reliable devices can definitely save you time and headache in the future by having to deal with failures less frequently.

One minor caveat where CPU could matter is AVX support. I couldn’t get ollama to run well on my system, despite having a decent GPU, because I’m using an ancient processor.

GReader was so good, now it’s just another ghost in Google’s graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.

Yeah, my list would end up being longer than some novels. Also, software churn makes it an ever evolving process, so having a list where half of it is wrong by the next time I need it seems less than ideal.

That slide is kinda wild to me. It simultaneously dismisses one philisophical concept as unfounded (dualism) but then suggests the existence of some true human state which sounds equally bogus to me.

I’d be curious to hear what the heck they were trying to get across here.

Using SPA firewall knocking (fwknop) to open ports to ssh in. I suppose if I was really paranoid, the most secure would be an air gap, but there’s only so much convenience I’ll give up for security.

Man, you rustled some jimmies with this one. I’ve submitted bug reports that have definitely felt like they’ve gone this way before, but as a dev myself I also understand that sorting legitimate bugs from feature creep isn’t always black and white.

There’s definitely a nugget of truth, here, but it’s burried in a bit of a sucker punch.