Valve is holding the carrot, Microsoft the stick.

Event documented as a sidetrack in future Summoning Salt video transpiring as we speak.
Sidetrack over, queue HOME - We’re Finally Landing

I got a Kingston SSD once ( yes I should have known better) that kept freezing my laptop which needed to be restarted. I couldn’t narrow it down and put up with it for an embarrassingly long time, until while looking for unrelated stuff I found out that the firmware version was associated with freezes. And then I found out that it was basically impossible to upgrade it, even on windows. After many hours, I was almost ready to give up, until I found some random Russian video (which I don’t speak) that used some ancient version of their shity firmware updater that you could only find in sketchy forums and software sites that could actually upgrade the firmware to a non-crashy version. I think it still freezes, but it’s orders of magnitude rarer.

Long story short, Kingston, not even once.

Sadly, if you are using Linux and want your firmware updates for your SSD through the proper native channels, Samsung was the only option last time I checked. Crucial used to have a half-assed solution that they abandoned recently.

Ah yes, China’s and India’s rivalry over supremacy over East Asia wasn’t enough. Now they can have KSA and Iran fighting over the Middle East, plus Egypt and Ethiopia ready to go to war over a dam, under the same banner. I guess if half the members of a consortium want to murder the other half it balances out?

If you think this is anything new you should look up who coincidentally invented the autopilot for airplanes and the mile high club.

He shouldn’t have gone looking for that 216 digit number again.

Thank you for your sacrifice. If I ever had a hint of an inclination to disregard the common wisdom and try reddit’s official app, now it’s permanently gone.

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