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There is nothing to refurbish in drives. They are just second hand devices. You can check if they are fine pretty easy and you need to take a look at the age (power on hours). I replace drives at 50k-60k hours, no matter if they are fine.

Exactly. I’m still missing the comical “or else…”.

I’m pretty much since the beginning on Matrix. I have never experienced any questionable content. Large chats (thousands of users) have some spam problems, but the spammers banned quickly and the posts are being removed.

What am I doing right?

If you break trains programmatically (by software) you’re an industrial saboteur.

That’s much worse than to hack them to work again.

There is discoveribility, but no one uses it. It’s called Web of Trust (by PGP).

And they are waging direct war on us too, if we considered coordinated attacks on our IT infrastructure and political misinformation campaigns an act of war, like it should be.

Most of these observations are subjective. I’ve had some Seagate drives that worked well but were very hot and wasted energy. On the other hand WD was crap so far, starting with 3 TB. Not because of quality, but because of power saving features that were a major annoyance to me (green and some blue drives). Red drives I had were mostly fine, even they wore out pretty quickly (Load_Cycle_Count bugs). They ran at 0% health left for a few years and had other awful SMART and on-drive controller bugs.

Since Seagate and WD are essentially the same company and they lied about SMR before, I wouldn’t buy either of them.

We have multiple proofs that if you’re mixing politics with religion the country becomes utter shithole. But yeah, thanks!

Was this COVID making everyone dumb around the world? Or do aliens invade us soon after they have used the stupidity beam long enough?

I seriously thought that it’s a myth that someone buys these premium currencies on free to play games. Like someone who buys this WinRAR license.

I’d assume that on average a kid buys 6 AAA games a year. That would be more probable for ~39€ a month. In this case they’d have mixed up many different things here.

Children in Europe spend on average 39 euros a month on in-game purchases

Really?

Are you looking for something like cached credentials?

Ich mache mir die Mühe. Danke für den Hinweis.

I have no problem with parties and companies influencing me. I have a problem with parties and companies that openly violate the constitution.

Because in most countries including Germany social networks filter these kinds of posts and try to fight against misinformation, racism, etc.

Tiktok can be used as a weapon. It can stir up communities and manipulate views. My impression is that it is done on purpose and it’s been instructed by the Chinese government.

I don’t have a proof but in American politics you can see tendencies against Tiktok. They are aware of these subtle issues.

Many first timers on Tiktok report that the first thing they see is this nazi crap right after registration. This is not normal.

They don’t block torrents because they like to watch people connect to the nodes and then sue them.

It’s always better to use onion routing.

Some hard drives are built for 24/7 operation. They have higher MTBF ratings and longer guarantees.

Hard drives are very different. Many of them waste energy, lie in the SMART log or just are weird (spin up and down, lose speed, get incredibly hot etc.)