Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

I always forget there was a real historical figure and assume Greensleeves is Gull’s little sister from those old Magic books.

Not sure how well they hold up, but like 25 years ago Arena and the Greensleeves trilogy seemed like the best books ever.

Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.

Yep, knew it as soon as I saw the name, but I clicked the link for the American Gladiator Hamster ball

Like 20 years ago some pizza chain gave out a very cheap but very well made local multiplayer game similar to Mario Party for Xbox (like, maybe legit just Xbox, the very first one)

Everything was janky, but in a consistently janky way.

So if you picked it up for the first time, it didn’t make sense. Especially because it was just a hodgepodge of random minigames with the only consistent thing what color your avatar was. But it didn’t take long to learn the game logic, and the games were fun and had replay value. The most memorable thing is they put you in those hamster balls from American Gladiators, and that’s what was in the disc label.

I’d be really surprised if there was a ROM of it today, or if anyone even remembers it. But for like the year they were giving them out, everyone had it.

I think in the USA’s case it will be much like South Africa, where there’s still tremendous resentment against Afrikaners even though they are an even smaller minority and no longer form government.

One example was more than enough, I get it

It’s an averaged-out view of what “the internet” thinks, with extra massaging to make sure it isn’t too offensive.

There multiple fundamental mistakes with that…

Would explaining them be more productive?

Sure, but I don’t get paid for this.

You want to be productive, take the time to explain all the ways their wrong. You don’t have time for that?

Let everyone else at least know it’s wrong.

But what you just did was completely pointless

You could have just told us you don’t know, we didn’t need an example

Who cares what AI thinks?

Like, what’s the point of the screenshot?

I have this one cousin who’s a total fuck up and didn’t graduate 7the grade, he stopped by to get some meth money and I decided to ask him about the future!

That’s what you’re doing.

No one cares AI said something dumb, and you caring makes it seem like you actually believe AI is anything more than a chatbot.

Bruh…

Socialism is economic policy…

The economic policy of those countries is socialism.

They are also democracies.

Like if I asked what kind of car you had you could say “Honda” or “a red Honda”.

Their not two different answers because one included unrelated information.

If someone asks what kind of government they have, “democratic socialism” would be correct, because only giving one of the main axises wouldn’t tell the full story.

But since we’re talking economic systems, the democratic part is superfluous

Yeah, that’s what’s going to get you.

Maybe if you loaned/rented them, but not many would go thru that hassle.

And you’d need your own locked down ecosystem they can’t crack.

On top of all that, I’m pretty sure even libraries got sued over doing this.

I remeber someone once tried to stream physical blu rays online to people for a small fee. And that didn’t work out legally either.

but if the customer wants to get the physical version of his book, I have to take back his digital version.

I mean, how can they “give back” a digital file?

Because countries that call themselves communist are just dictators lying about it…

I mean, you’re asking about two separate political axis: economy, and control.

Look at the Nordic countries and even most Western Europeans and you’ll see socialist countries that aren’t authoritarian.

Theres not a single communist country tho. So when you talk like there are, people assume you have no clue what you’re talking about about.

Like, what countries do you think are communist?

A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.

I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.

And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.

Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.

There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.

Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.

Pili multigemini…

I might have fucked up the order, but it means “multiple twin hairs”. Like, where just one hair should grow out of your skin, you have multiples.

If you let it just grow, you’re fine. But if you shave it’s very easy for it to be ingrown because the “hole” the hairs come thru was only meant for one hair.

When I was in the military and had to shave every day it was horrible. I don’t know if shaving makes more grow, but I’d have stubble thicker than mechanical pencil lead, and when I’d pluck it I’d find out it was 3-5 hairs attached to the same “root”. One of those becoming ingrown is a huge hassle.

With a beard, it’ll just shed normally or come out when I comb it. The problem is when you shave and the hair bunch has to keep pushing thru the skin over and over.

Yeah, but the problem is people take it literally when it’s just an update of the analogy for Plato’s cave…

You’re taking it even more literally and saying if it’s not a direct match, it’s not a simulation.

Madden is a football simulation, even though it’s not the same as real life football

It’s not that your thinking deeper than the analogy, it’s the analogy soaring over your head while you claim it doesn’t exist because you’re looking at the ground

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years…

Yeah, that’s crazy.

I guess all those $100 deals were used too.

So I guess at least used prices went down?

But I remember years ago a shuckable 12tb for like $120-140 on sale wasnt unusual on buildapcsales.