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ShepherdPie ,

I've been using shucked WD Elements/EasyStore/MyBook drives in my 24/7 media server since 2018 without issue. I also have another as a torrent drive which has constant read/writes for around the same time again without issue.

I really don't see the justification for paying nearly 2x the price just to get an actual red label sticker on the drive.

ShepherdPie ,

Are you running these in a NAS or PC case? I have a Fractal Design R6 case and it is nearly silent even with 9 HDDs running inside of it because they added a bunch of soundproofing inside.

ShepherdPie ,

My old Dell Optiplex would spin the drives up and then shut them off in a constant cycle and it drove me bonkers. I agree a consistent noise is better than no noise some of the time.

ShepherdPie ,

Maybe your cat has Garfield-Syndrome. Have you tried feeding it lasagna?

ShepherdPie ,

This is nothing new though. For decades, managers have fallen for "solution in a box" sales pitches even though front line workers know it's doomed to fail as soon as they set eyes on it. This time the solution just happens to be "AI."

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

ShepherdPie ,

I think it's a stupid policy but I don't see how any of this is applicable. If the AI identifies an encampment, it's going to be police that come and scare them off. This isn't like a red light camera where you get mailed a ticket because there's no address to send a ticket to and the AI isn't going to be able to identify individuals occupying a tent.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

ShepherdPie ,

Our legislators don't want that though. In fact they're currently trying to force the sale of US TikTok to a US company likely so they can collect even more data on us.

ShepherdPie ,

Can we elect the EU to be our next president instead of the current crop of political windbags?

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

ShepherdPie ,

If they utter "security for children" the government will probably not only drop the lawsuit but pay Apple $20 billion.

ShepherdPie ,

No offense, but I can't help but picture Michael Scott's wall mounted TV when reading about your 21" monitor as a bedroom TV.

ShepherdPie ,

As for costs, im seeing i7-6700t selling used for £60, new DDR4 is probably another £40, and a new cheap motherboard is £60. A quick ebay search shows refurbbed " i5 6th gens" (no model number) with 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd going for £140 (16gb of ram is £5 more, but for the sake of comparison).

When people suggest these, they're recommending old Optiplex micro PCs (such as the 3040 micro) not building a new machine from scratch. These can be purchased for $100 or less in the US as businesses use them and then dump them all when they upgrade.

ShepherdPie ,

You can use an SSD as a boot drive on the Pi. I have my Home Assistant Pi running off an SSD.

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times.....

ShepherdPie ,

It ain't easy being sleazy.

ShepherdPie ,

Why not because they publicly say the right phrases to make you think we're all on the same side and they have your back? Were you not around to witness what happened in 2016, or what nearly happened again in 2020, or what could happen now in 2024?

Have you never questioned why, out of a population of 330 million, they keep hand picking individuals to back that fully represent the status quo, individuals who are so unlikable that they have already lost once and then only defeated him in a narrow victory once? Candidates who can barely defeat a known conman and reality TV star?

ShepherdPie ,

You can tell their true beliefs by how they vote and the legislation they actually pass. It's no conspiracy theory that it's little more than lip service or virtue signaling when they give public statements about 'X' but never back it with actual legislation or if they do it's legislation that is doomed from the start because they never had any intention of actually putting up a fight to move it forward. It all plays well in media headlines though and that's all that matters to them.

ShepherdPie ,

This is such a naive take. It's not us who decide to back candidate X over Y, give them all the media coverage, or millions of dollars in party donations. Biden and Clinton weren't picked by us to enter into the race for president.

ShepherdPie ,

Who is talking about local races for city council or mayor?

This is about national politics and national elections. My city councilor isn't going to end support for a genocide, give us universal healthcare, or improve economic conditions for the majority of the nation.

ShepherdPie ,

cable/dsl/etc providers should have upgraded their systems literally decades ago and didn't, funneling federal money intended for that purpose to CEO bonuses instead.

So why look to them now like the other person was downvoted for asking? Nothing has changed and they still have no reason to run cable out to these communities.

ShepherdPie ,

I definitely get where they're coming from though. It seems inefficient to have all these services running on separate hardware where each service might only be using 25% of the capability (not necessarily in OPs case with the Pi3B) of the device and needing three separate electrical outlets to do some real basic computing.

I've been very casually exploring Proxmox on a micro Optiplex but haven't had the time or need to jump in head first quite yet since things are still working. The real downside is that your single piece of hardware becomes a failure point for everything but as this is just home hobby stuff and not a big business, it's not really that big of an issue.

ShepherdPie ,

Just as a tangent, definitely get an SSD for whatever device is running HomeAssistant and set it as the boot drive as the constant writes will cause your SD card to explode in a huge fireball after not too long.

ShepherdPie ,

The only appropriate use of the clapping emoji.

ShepherdPie ,

A little bit of extra clap never hurt anybody.

ShepherdPie ,

Did OP edit the title cause it's correct now with "cojones" which refers to the co-Jones Brothers who had a lot of balls and took risks with their business ventures in 1892.

ShepherdPie ,

I wouldn't mind basic TVs being sold again, but you can just buy any smart TV and not connect it to the internet in order to have the functional equivalent of a dumb TV. I always just use Rokus or other external streaming devices rather than the constantly out-of-date TV streaming apps native to the TV itself.

ShepherdPie ,

Just don't connect it to your home's wifi.

ShepherdPie ,

There's wildly different orbits. Starlink flies low and has a decaying orbit due to atmospheric drag meaning nothing is going to stay up there for very long. They designed them to just burn up on reentry after ~5 years. Stuff in much higher orbits are more of an issue because they don't experience the same amount of drag.

ShepherdPie ,

This is a pretty ignorant take and borderline disinformation. Yes they travel fast. Yes there are a lot of them. No they don't pose any risk of blocking space travel even if they all exploded because they're not in a stable orbit where they can just stay up there forever. They're low enough that they're facing a constant pull back into earth.

ShepherdPie ,

Like we've gone full circle back to the corded-phone days.

ShepherdPie ,

Read the comment I replied to.

ShepherdPie ,

What car has removable rear quarters? I can't think of any that aren't welded on to the C-pillar/roof/trunk.

ShepherdPie ,

I'd laugh about this but then I remember that someone recently bought Yahoo for $5B

ShepherdPie ,

I did this on my truck and then realized the last guy didn't know what he was doing and had the shoes on backwards. It's a lot easier and makes more sense now after doing them a couple times.

ShepherdPie ,

That's a valid use case though. At my work we had machines running XP up until a couple years ago because they were purpose built and weren't connected to the internet. There was no reason to upgrade until the entire tool was upgraded.

ShepherdPie ,

Yep these things are still in their infancy. You can't really compare them to vehicles with traditional powertrains that have been built and sold for the last 100+ years.

ShepherdPie ,

The point is that companies like Google and Facebook do the same data harvesting and manipulation but aren't being held to the same standard. The law is clearly written to benefit the US government not the citizens, while the justification is stated to be 'for the benefit of the citizens.' It's like buying your wife a lawn tractor for her birthday even though you know she has no interest in using one. You're claiming it's for her but it's really for you.

ShepherdPie ,

It also tells you something about all the supposed gridlock in Washington that can magically evaporate when there's money and power to be gained from it.

ShepherdPie ,

TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation

That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.

ShepherdPie ,

But they're not disallowing children smoking, drinking, or gambling here. It's more akin to disallowing children from drinking Smirnoff, smoking Marlboros, or playing blackjack and nothing else.

ShepherdPie ,

If this had anything to do with children, they'd be reigning them all in at once instead of wasting time singling one of many out.

ShepherdPie ,

How do you suddenly go from comparing these platforms to alcohol and gambling, saying they have no actual utility, and saying 'every little bit helps' when it comes to regulation to asking why these companies actions should even be regulated and why the law should apply to them all equally, even going as far as comparing them to the role doctors play in society?

That's honestly one of the most abrupt 180-degree spins I've ever seen.

ShepherdPie ,

Are you drunk or something? That's literally what you're arguing for here.

After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines (www.opencampusmedia.org)

Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020....

ShepherdPie ,

These prison supply companies are typically owned by fellow prison guards who want to grift the state, which is why they won't criticize them.

ShepherdPie ,

I swear I recognize this guy

ShepherdPie ,

My work did this a few years ago and one guy who was planning on retiring took it. He got a full extra year of pay and 2 or 3 years of medical insurance out of the deal.

ShepherdPie ,

As did ICE vehicles when they came on the scene. People seem to get really upset that manufacturers are exploring multiple possibilities rather than all of them collectively deciding on a single option as if everyone in the country drives the same car and has the same needs.

ShepherdPie ,

Parking in the driveway is also banned in many HOAs.

ShepherdPie ,

I don't live in an HOA but my home's value went up $150k over the last couple years for absolutely nothing. It would be cool if a tiny portion of that increase was at least due to something like solar panels being installed.

ShepherdPie ,

I live in uber-blue NW Oregon and even my county banned solar farms because they claim it's wasting our fertile soil that can be used for factory farming instead. The county is controlled by douchy Republicans though

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