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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from vrykolas in What Drive Should I Get? A Guide to the Mechanical HD Market   
    A lot of people have been asking about the difference between specific drives from various manufacturers, so I thought I would create a list of each drive’s use-case scenarios and an overview of their features (sorted by brand):
    Information at a Glance
    Western Digital
    Consumer:
    Western Digital Green Series
    The WD Green series are high capacity, low cost drives designed for home use. They aren't the fastest, but they are cheap and use low amounts of power. They are generally not recommended for use in a RAID array however, as they lack TLER and have an aggressive spin-down cycle which can result in issues with them being dropped out of an array. More Info
    Western Digital Blue Series
    The WD Blue series are the "standard" drive in WD’s lineup. They offer a good compromise between price and performance, and are the "normal" drive that you would typically include in an average home computer. More Info
    Western Digital Black Series
    The WD Black series are high performance consumer drives. They offer high performance, but also come at a higher price than the others. More Info
    Western Digital Purple Series
    The WD Purple series employ specific features to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Western Digital Red Series
    The WD Red series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. They offer a good price to performance ratio, and possess a few features which make them more suitable for RAID arrays such as TLER, higher vibration tolerance (which should result in a longer lifespan), consume less power and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Western Digital Red Pro Series
    The WD Red Pro series are similar to Western Digital’s Red drives, but are rated for higher workloads and higher performance. WD Red Pros come at a premium price in comparison to WD Red drives. More Info
    Western Digital VelociRaptor
    The Western Digital VelociRaptor series are designed for use in performance demanding workstations. The drives are designed with a built in heatsink to disperse heat and utilize Preemptive Wear Leveling to increase the speed of read/write operations. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Western Digital Se Series
    The WD Se series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives support a few of the same features as the WD Red Pro series, but are designed for a larger workload in an enterprise environment. WD Se drives also have a higher URE, and should be less prone to bad sectors. More Info
    Western Digital Re Series
    The WD Re series are designed for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Se but are rated for even higher workloads and have a higher URE. More Info
    Western Digital Xe Series
    The WD Xe series is WD's top of the line drives for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments which demand the ultimate performance. These drives have the same features as WD Re series, but with the largest workload and have the highest URE of any WD drive. More Info
    Western Digital Ae Series
    The WD Ae series are designed for enterprise grade cold storage solutions. If you have any data that you will be storing for long periods of time without being accessed, these are the drives for you. More Info
    More info: Consumer | Enterprise
    Seagate
    Consumer:
    Desktop (or Barracuda)
    The Seagate Barracuda series are Seagate's solution for the desktop environment. They have a low price to performance ratio, and will suit most of your desktop needs. The drives should be able to work in RAID, but are only rated for a maximum of 2 in RAID 1/0, they are also only rated for 8x5 use. More Info
    NAS
    The Seagate NAS series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. The drives, like Reds, have features that make them favorable for RAID like ERC (Seagate's version of TLER), higher vibration tolerance, consume less power, and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Video
    The Seagate Video series have specific features enabled to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Terascale (or Constellation CS)
    The Seagate Terascale series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. They have features that make them favorable for use in RAID like ERC, higher vibration tolerance and 24/7 rated use. More Info
    Surveillance
    The Seagate Surveillance series of drives off the same benefits as the Video series, but are designed for a higher workload in an enterprise environment. More Info
    Enterprise Capacity (or Constellation ES)
    The Seagate Enterprise Capacity series are designed for use in enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Terascale drives, but are rated for higher workloads. More Info
    Enterprise Performance
    The Seagate Enterprise Performance series are designed for use in a performance demanding, enterprise server and NAS RAID environment. These drives are similar to Enterprise Capacity drives, but are rated for an even higher workload. More Info

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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Ryker Robb in What Drive Should I Get? A Guide to the Mechanical HD Market   
    A lot of people have been asking about the difference between specific drives from various manufacturers, so I thought I would create a list of each drive’s use-case scenarios and an overview of their features (sorted by brand):
    Information at a Glance
    Western Digital
    Consumer:
    Western Digital Green Series
    The WD Green series are high capacity, low cost drives designed for home use. They aren't the fastest, but they are cheap and use low amounts of power. They are generally not recommended for use in a RAID array however, as they lack TLER and have an aggressive spin-down cycle which can result in issues with them being dropped out of an array. More Info
    Western Digital Blue Series
    The WD Blue series are the "standard" drive in WD’s lineup. They offer a good compromise between price and performance, and are the "normal" drive that you would typically include in an average home computer. More Info
    Western Digital Black Series
    The WD Black series are high performance consumer drives. They offer high performance, but also come at a higher price than the others. More Info
    Western Digital Purple Series
    The WD Purple series employ specific features to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Western Digital Red Series
    The WD Red series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. They offer a good price to performance ratio, and possess a few features which make them more suitable for RAID arrays such as TLER, higher vibration tolerance (which should result in a longer lifespan), consume less power and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Western Digital Red Pro Series
    The WD Red Pro series are similar to Western Digital’s Red drives, but are rated for higher workloads and higher performance. WD Red Pros come at a premium price in comparison to WD Red drives. More Info
    Western Digital VelociRaptor
    The Western Digital VelociRaptor series are designed for use in performance demanding workstations. The drives are designed with a built in heatsink to disperse heat and utilize Preemptive Wear Leveling to increase the speed of read/write operations. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Western Digital Se Series
    The WD Se series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives support a few of the same features as the WD Red Pro series, but are designed for a larger workload in an enterprise environment. WD Se drives also have a higher URE, and should be less prone to bad sectors. More Info
    Western Digital Re Series
    The WD Re series are designed for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Se but are rated for even higher workloads and have a higher URE. More Info
    Western Digital Xe Series
    The WD Xe series is WD's top of the line drives for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments which demand the ultimate performance. These drives have the same features as WD Re series, but with the largest workload and have the highest URE of any WD drive. More Info
    Western Digital Ae Series
    The WD Ae series are designed for enterprise grade cold storage solutions. If you have any data that you will be storing for long periods of time without being accessed, these are the drives for you. More Info
    More info: Consumer | Enterprise
    Seagate
    Consumer:
    Desktop (or Barracuda)
    The Seagate Barracuda series are Seagate's solution for the desktop environment. They have a low price to performance ratio, and will suit most of your desktop needs. The drives should be able to work in RAID, but are only rated for a maximum of 2 in RAID 1/0, they are also only rated for 8x5 use. More Info
    NAS
    The Seagate NAS series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. The drives, like Reds, have features that make them favorable for RAID like ERC (Seagate's version of TLER), higher vibration tolerance, consume less power, and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Video
    The Seagate Video series have specific features enabled to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Terascale (or Constellation CS)
    The Seagate Terascale series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. They have features that make them favorable for use in RAID like ERC, higher vibration tolerance and 24/7 rated use. More Info
    Surveillance
    The Seagate Surveillance series of drives off the same benefits as the Video series, but are designed for a higher workload in an enterprise environment. More Info
    Enterprise Capacity (or Constellation ES)
    The Seagate Enterprise Capacity series are designed for use in enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Terascale drives, but are rated for higher workloads. More Info
    Enterprise Performance
    The Seagate Enterprise Performance series are designed for use in a performance demanding, enterprise server and NAS RAID environment. These drives are similar to Enterprise Capacity drives, but are rated for an even higher workload. More Info

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    Blade of Grass reacted to starsmine in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    smaller and nothing toxic.

    SVB didnt have toxic assets, this was a straight up bank run and SVB having bonds and actually solid mortgages that are usually liquid, not very liquid because inflation making them worth less then their real value even though they are in all other situations essentially zero risk assets. When you fire sale a bond you dont get the full value. when you fire sale a bond that has a rate significantly below inflation rate, you get even less. 
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from SansVarnic in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    The issue is if they sell ANY of their Held To Maturity (HTM) assets, they have to mark down ALL of the assets, which would likely make them insolvent. 
     
    The reason why they can’t just sell them is as I said — the market value of the assets is not enough to cover the liability they cover, and the assets themselves might be illiquid (I.E. few people willing to buy that much/specific things). If they have to mark down their assets, there’s probably about a $30B hole in their balance sheet (but again, if they hold till maturity, everything is fine). 
     
    Again, this is just regular boring banking, 
     
    Btw, Wednesday alone they has $42B in withdrawals, out of $173B, wild.
     
    Dodd-Frank changed banking regulation significant, and has very specific rules for banks going under to prevent “moral hazard”. 
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from wanderingfool2 in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    The issue is if they sell ANY of their Held To Maturity (HTM) assets, they have to mark down ALL of the assets, which would likely make them insolvent. 
     
    The reason why they can’t just sell them is as I said — the market value of the assets is not enough to cover the liability they cover, and the assets themselves might be illiquid (I.E. few people willing to buy that much/specific things). If they have to mark down their assets, there’s probably about a $30B hole in their balance sheet (but again, if they hold till maturity, everything is fine). 
     
    Again, this is just regular boring banking, 
     
    Btw, Wednesday alone they has $42B in withdrawals, out of $173B, wild.
     
    Dodd-Frank changed banking regulation significant, and has very specific rules for banks going under to prevent “moral hazard”. 
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from leadeater in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    The issue is if they sell ANY of their Held To Maturity (HTM) assets, they have to mark down ALL of the assets, which would likely make them insolvent. 
     
    The reason why they can’t just sell them is as I said — the market value of the assets is not enough to cover the liability they cover, and the assets themselves might be illiquid (I.E. few people willing to buy that much/specific things). If they have to mark down their assets, there’s probably about a $30B hole in their balance sheet (but again, if they hold till maturity, everything is fine). 
     
    Again, this is just regular boring banking, 
     
    Btw, Wednesday alone they has $42B in withdrawals, out of $173B, wild.
     
    Dodd-Frank changed banking regulation significant, and has very specific rules for banks going under to prevent “moral hazard”. 
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Uttamattamakin in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    The issue is if they sell ANY of their Held To Maturity (HTM) assets, they have to mark down ALL of the assets, which would likely make them insolvent. 
     
    The reason why they can’t just sell them is as I said — the market value of the assets is not enough to cover the liability they cover, and the assets themselves might be illiquid (I.E. few people willing to buy that much/specific things). If they have to mark down their assets, there’s probably about a $30B hole in their balance sheet (but again, if they hold till maturity, everything is fine). 
     
    Again, this is just regular boring banking, 
     
    Btw, Wednesday alone they has $42B in withdrawals, out of $173B, wild.
     
    Dodd-Frank changed banking regulation significant, and has very specific rules for banks going under to prevent “moral hazard”. 
  8. Agree
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Uttamattamakin in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    Generally when banks fail the FDIC just lines up another well capitalized bank to take over and assume all deposits. SVB was big but not big enough that JPM or BAC couldn't absorb them (not that they are going to/want to). 
  9. Agree
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Uttamattamakin in Silicon Valley Bank, Serving 1/2 of Tech and other Startups Failed Friday. HSBC Buys UK Solvent Subsidary, FDIC, Fed and Treasury Back Deposits   
    its probably just pretty boring stuff, treasuries, mortgages, etc. Seems like their issue is largely stemming from a duration gap i.e. people want money now but it's locked up for X time period, and like all regional banks they've been suffering from deposit drawdowns over the last few months as people move money to higher interest rate products.
     
    Again, pretty boring, banks go bust all the time https://www.ft.com/content/8e8084b6-a2b8-11e0-83fc-00144feabdc0
  10. Like
    Blade of Grass reacted to leadeater in The last seven Mac quarters have now been the top seven quarters ever in the history of the Mac-- and 50% of Mac purchases were first timers   
    Also it's not just the decoding width on the M1 that makes it very good in some aspects. Apple Firestorm has 6 INT ALUs where past Intel archecture only had 4 and Golden Cove only now got 5. On the FP side Firestorm also has 4 where as in the past Intel only had 2 (Xeon/HEDT 3 but AVX512 only) and now with Golden Cove it has 3 but there are caveats so it's quite often effectively only 2 still.
     
    Apple's Firestorm cores have the capability to do twice the work compared to comparable Intel and AMD core archecture, such is why I look at execution resources and not "number of cores". This makes all products based on Firestorm cores extremely good at single thread tasks as you have more execution resources sitting behind an effectively smaller amount of front end and so long as the execution resources are properly feed there is no drawback to this and only efficiency gain.
     
    You need to load up two Intel/AMD cores, not threads, to be addressing roughly equivalent amount of execution resources. This is why you need to boost to the hills and suck all the power down to match the single thread performance, because you're trying to do the same amount of work with half the resources which is obviously not the more efficient way.
     
    For 1T workloads this is greatly important, for nT workloads it matters far less.
     
    As @Blade of Grass mentioned, if it were so simple to do the same thing on x86 then it would be being done, problem is it's not as simple, not that it's simple on ARM either but it's definitely not as hard as x86.
  11. Like
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from leadeater in The last seven Mac quarters have now been the top seven quarters ever in the history of the Mac-- and 50% of Mac purchases were first timers   
    Also Apple has stupidly large reorder buffers vs. other processors, which is partially why they’re so efficient—their pipelines are always highly utilized, which also helps with performance. 
     
    Power efficiency wise though, x86 is (probably) never going to be able to compete with ARM—the CISC -> RISC microOp is always going to use additional power, die space, and introduce complexity into the decoding stage. 
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from leadeater in The last seven Mac quarters have now been the top seven quarters ever in the history of the Mac-- and 50% of Mac purchases were first timers   
    Issue with superscalar processors is that it can be difficult fill all slots every cycle with instructions from a single thread (normally you can only fill ~ half), because you have dependencies between instructions etc, with SMT (or, fine grain multithreading + out of order execution) you can just fill the open slots with another threads instructions, so you get all slots every cycle. Improves IPC and utilization. 
     
    Wide decoding is just expensive for variable length instruction sets (requires a lot of circuitry) 🙂  so it's hard to grow the pipeline width. Also makes branch misprediction very expensive (because you have to purge ~ width * depth every mis-predict)
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Tesla Stock Plunge Wipes Out $114 Billion   
    No? They’re still personally liable for the loan, same as a company.
    What could be a short squeeze?
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from LAwLz in Tesla Stock Plunge Wipes Out $114 Billion   
    No? They’re still personally liable for the loan, same as a company.
    What could be a short squeeze?
  15. Like
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from gjkrisa in What Drive Should I Get? A Guide to the Mechanical HD Market   
    A lot of people have been asking about the difference between specific drives from various manufacturers, so I thought I would create a list of each drive’s use-case scenarios and an overview of their features (sorted by brand):
    Information at a Glance
    Western Digital
    Consumer:
    Western Digital Green Series
    The WD Green series are high capacity, low cost drives designed for home use. They aren't the fastest, but they are cheap and use low amounts of power. They are generally not recommended for use in a RAID array however, as they lack TLER and have an aggressive spin-down cycle which can result in issues with them being dropped out of an array. More Info
    Western Digital Blue Series
    The WD Blue series are the "standard" drive in WD’s lineup. They offer a good compromise between price and performance, and are the "normal" drive that you would typically include in an average home computer. More Info
    Western Digital Black Series
    The WD Black series are high performance consumer drives. They offer high performance, but also come at a higher price than the others. More Info
    Western Digital Purple Series
    The WD Purple series employ specific features to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Western Digital Red Series
    The WD Red series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. They offer a good price to performance ratio, and possess a few features which make them more suitable for RAID arrays such as TLER, higher vibration tolerance (which should result in a longer lifespan), consume less power and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Western Digital Red Pro Series
    The WD Red Pro series are similar to Western Digital’s Red drives, but are rated for higher workloads and higher performance. WD Red Pros come at a premium price in comparison to WD Red drives. More Info
    Western Digital VelociRaptor
    The Western Digital VelociRaptor series are designed for use in performance demanding workstations. The drives are designed with a built in heatsink to disperse heat and utilize Preemptive Wear Leveling to increase the speed of read/write operations. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Western Digital Se Series
    The WD Se series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives support a few of the same features as the WD Red Pro series, but are designed for a larger workload in an enterprise environment. WD Se drives also have a higher URE, and should be less prone to bad sectors. More Info
    Western Digital Re Series
    The WD Re series are designed for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Se but are rated for even higher workloads and have a higher URE. More Info
    Western Digital Xe Series
    The WD Xe series is WD's top of the line drives for enterprise server and NAS RAID environments which demand the ultimate performance. These drives have the same features as WD Re series, but with the largest workload and have the highest URE of any WD drive. More Info
    Western Digital Ae Series
    The WD Ae series are designed for enterprise grade cold storage solutions. If you have any data that you will be storing for long periods of time without being accessed, these are the drives for you. More Info
    More info: Consumer | Enterprise
    Seagate
    Consumer:
    Desktop (or Barracuda)
    The Seagate Barracuda series are Seagate's solution for the desktop environment. They have a low price to performance ratio, and will suit most of your desktop needs. The drives should be able to work in RAID, but are only rated for a maximum of 2 in RAID 1/0, they are also only rated for 8x5 use. More Info
    NAS
    The Seagate NAS series are designed for use in home NAS and servers. The drives, like Reds, have features that make them favorable for RAID like ERC (Seagate's version of TLER), higher vibration tolerance, consume less power, and are rated for 24/7 use. More Info
    Video
    The Seagate Video series have specific features enabled to make them more reliable for 24/7 use in surveillance systems. More Info
    Enterprise:
    Terascale (or Constellation CS)
    The Seagate Terascale series are designed for cost effective enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. They have features that make them favorable for use in RAID like ERC, higher vibration tolerance and 24/7 rated use. More Info
    Surveillance
    The Seagate Surveillance series of drives off the same benefits as the Video series, but are designed for a higher workload in an enterprise environment. More Info
    Enterprise Capacity (or Constellation ES)
    The Seagate Enterprise Capacity series are designed for use in enterprise server and NAS RAID environments. These drives are akin to Terascale drives, but are rated for higher workloads. More Info
    Enterprise Performance
    The Seagate Enterprise Performance series are designed for use in a performance demanding, enterprise server and NAS RAID environment. These drives are similar to Enterprise Capacity drives, but are rated for an even higher workload. More Info

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    Blade of Grass reacted to Commodus in AirTags used to stalk women   
    There's definitely a whiff of the Only Apple Does Bad Things mindset in this thread.
     
    The issue isn't how AirTags work on a basic level; as others have pointed out, they work much in the same way as Bluetooth trackers from Tile, Chipolo and many other brands (UWB is the exception, but it's only useful to the tag owner when they're very close). It's that Apple may be providing too long an interval before it makes clear that you've been tagged by someone else, and that Android users don't have an automatic way to find those unwanted tags. And to some extent, Apple has inadvertently highlighted a problem that was always there by making these trackers more popular than before.
     
    And that's the frustration — there are reasons to criticize Apple, but they're not as huge as claimed and require nuance that frankly gets lost in discussions like this. Apple isn't some mustache-twirling cartoon villain that's fine to allow stalkers as long as its bank account gets larger; it's a business that made some rational strategy and tech decisions, but might not have considered every possible implication.
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    Blade of Grass reacted to dalekphalm in AirTags used to stalk women   
    This is not surprising.
     
    As previously mentioned, there is a very fine line between allowing you to track your own lost belongings, and the ability to use it nefariously to track a non-consenting third party.
     
    Something to mention: Apple released an Android App that allows you to detect tags that have been away from the owner enough to be flagged as lost. So you *do not* need an iPhone to tell if you're being tracked.
     
    Something definitely needs to be done though. The idea of having these registered by the owner and showing ID before purchasing isn't a horrible idea (though God Forbid what the "freedom" folks will think of that - also good luck getting all the various countries to agree on similar legislation).
     
    I do agree that 8-24 hours is way too long, if you're literally being stalked. Especially if they're clever enough to keep coming in range of the tag to reset the timer. I don't know the exact range but since it's Bluetooth, they could literally be outside your home, and be in range of the tag, thus preventing it from ever alerting you. Some bluetooth devices easily get upwards of 30 feet of range.
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from -Mangled- in 5GHz & 2.4GHz Home Network Setup   
    An analogy to cement the idea ;)
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from Derkoli in What happens in the US if you need treatment but have no health insurance?   
    Collective bargaining also lowers prices  it’s why a hip replacement in Ontario costs less than in the US, because our government forces competition through bids. I remember seeing a study showing that the same replacement hip costs 2-4x the price in the US vs. Canada. 
    The only issue I see with this is that the US pays the most per capita for healthcare in the entire world. In Canada, we pay something like 35% less per person and have free healthcare. Our public/compulsory spending is similar (maybe like 5-10% different), but we get way more value for the money. 
     

    I’m glad that you + your depends have the luck of being in a position to do this, but it’s not a realistic solution to the problem. Any catastrophic event or development of a chronic condition could lead to financial hardship. Also, not everyone can do it, there are people who make just enough money to not qualify for government benefits, but not enough to save for this (it’s called the welfare cliff).  
  20. Informative
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from egemen404 in M1 Mac owners are experiencing extremely high SSD writes over short periods of time, likely thanks to aggressive swap   
    Little update from my post the other week. Uptime now just under 15 days. I've had some software updates installed (Adobe CC stuff, some random other stuff) and downloaded a new macOS update but not installed. Am currently at:

    Which is more than I was expecting (though about 3x the numbers I saw earlier), 1TB of writes is from kernel_task, which sadly obscures where the writes come from.
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    Blade of Grass got a reaction from GillyMoMo in NAS - Remote Access   
    Just a note on PPTP VPNs, they're not really secure. The MS-CHAPv2 protocol that they very frequently use for authentication is no longer secure and even Microsoft themselves recommends the use of a different VPN protocol. While PPTP may be fine for normal, everyday, home use, if you need to access confidential or sensitive data please do not use PPTP. Your best option would be to use OpenVPN or L2TP/IPsec as they are far more secure than PPTP.
  22. Funny
    Blade of Grass got a reaction from sub68 in Another DDoS attack on the forum   
    me rn 

  23. Agree
    Blade of Grass reacted to leadeater in Apple April 20 event - New iMac and iPad Pro with M1 chips, 'AirTags' and a new iPhone color   
    That's not how that works, if it's a browser based application only screen updates are going between the client device and the cloud service. Even if it's a cloud access file using a fat client application Remote Differential Compression and other things like it is a thing, if you change 400KB of data only 400KB needs to be sent to the cloud service not the whole entire file again.
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    Blade of Grass reacted to wanderingfool2 in Apple Ceases Approving VPN App Updates from UN Recommended App Maker   
    It does seem like Proton is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill...but at the same time, this really speaks to the inconsistencies of the rule enforcement (and the general issue that there are so many rules that vary reviewer by reviewer that probably every App released has something in it that Apple could refuse entry to the App store).
     
    While I do believe it is tone deaf, and shouldn't have happened; Proton could easily just modify the description and have the update passed through.
     
    On a similar note, I do feel that a lot of VPN's really cross the line in terms of geo-blocking advertisement.  It always irks me when people use the circumvention for Netflix, but at the same time that is akin to advertising piracy
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    Blade of Grass reacted to poochyena in Facebook exec says in hidden-cam discussion that Facebook and Google need to be broken up, and Zuckerberg stopped   
    sounds like tin foil hat type stuff that has been said for decades. Also, this is project veritas, they can be completely ignore as they are about as credible as a tabloid magazine.
    Seriously “No king in the history of the world has been the ruler of two billion people, but Mark Zuckerberg is,” this sounds like the ranting of a crazy guy who did too many drugs. Its gibberish.
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