My brother’s cat hunts flies and mosquitos for him. She’s a helpful little soldier.

What is a Slimer?

Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.

You can tell they are really improving competition and efficiency by raising the C - suite salaries.

Well, I know what studio they are closing next.

Chat, is this real?

Is that you, Orel?

The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous

I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That’s why I’ve not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.

They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?

Dude. I just bought a used 6A last week.

This ain’t their first rodeo

No idea why they were collecting identification then.

Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.

The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a “Are you 18: Yes / No”, more like “we will check using ID and photos of you”.

It’s the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.

Wow. I thought only the right had conspiracy theorists.

If you’re homeless in the UK, and especially if you are disabled, you can easily spend 20+ hours per week filing complaints, reasonable adjustments, writing suitability reviews, organising care, trying to get benefits etc.

Just to protect yourself from abuse in the system and to get the right to live a life approaching that of a normal person.

Instead of contributing to society, you have to fight bureaucratic battles just to get what you legally are entitled to.

So effectively, you are working one of the most stressful and bureaucratic jobs imaginable, with ‘colleagues’ that question and deny everything you say, and if you fail you may freeze to death on the streets, and all without pay.

As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it’s a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.

Ultimately, it’s a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you’re winning.

Here’s where I got some.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives

I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.

All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s

The best I could find was this, but that’s not amazing either.

What I do is look at backblaze’s drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don’t get a lemon.

I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were manufacturer recertified. Usually a recertified drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.

EDIT: I used manufacturer recertified, not refurbished drives.

I mean born into the mid-90s. I was a child - early teenager when this aired.

Never heard of it until now. I assume this refers to the “2001-2010 American medical comedy-drama” show.

For the record I more or less fit into the late millennial generation.

Another common one is “y’all” but I’m not American enough to pull that off.