Sure. It’s about balancing risks, what the business world calls Risk Mitigation (there’s an entire field(s) called Risk Analysis and Management)
We always ask “what’s the risk?” Both for making a given change or not making it. We then attempt to asses which risk is more manageable - which can be “mitigated”.
We have teams whose job it is to analyze the usentied risks, and try to quantify them to enable decision making.
The barrier to alternatives is very high, especially when they simply don’t understand the risks.
Get the battery powered one, and get a 9v 1amp wall wart (it can run on batteries or the wall wart).
Also buy spare sanding wheels, at least 3, preferably 6.
Source: I have one. It takes 2 minutes to do a full pass. One wheel will do about 100 discs before being too worn out.
Of the ~200 unreadable discs I’ve run through it, perhaps 5 were still unreadable afterwards (and those may have had a copy protection failure, I’m not really sure). I do know pretty much all were readable afterwards, when they weren’t readable before.
Edit: the spray is just water with a drop of dish soap. Use lots of water - when I hear it slow down I know it needs more water on the disc, so give it another shot of spray.
I do, and I’ve been in chronic pain for decades, have considered the final solution and disregarded it.
Don’t assume you know what other people think about life. I’d even go so far as to say you’re very much the exception - look at people, not media.
Get some original material - this one is way older than you.
Interestingly, we have Hubble in part because spy agencies had spare Keyhole Satellite chassis.
No shit, exactly what I said in the late 90’s about SaaS and everyone ignored me as paranoid.
I’m not paranoid, this is how people operate.
But finance wankers drive management decisions, and they see it as offloading costs (or opposite of investment) as it reduces tax obligations, and arguably shifts risks to the cloud provider.
What those dipshit bean-counters didn’t understand is it actually increases engineering and maintenance costs rather than reducing engineering headcount, because each cloud provider uses it’s own convoluted management and cost system.
I can’t say it better than this blog: https://loudwhisper.me/blog/hating-clouds/
“Give everyone what they need”
From who’s pocket? It won’t be from the wealthy, because they are powerful - the wealth is a side-effect of that. They’ll still be powerful, and still have more than the rest of us.
The over-regulation courtesy of oil companies (via ill-informed environmental groups in the 70’s) is a major issue.
Then for some reason* people see the Three Mile Island incident as a failure rather than the fail-safe success that it was, and seem to see it in the same light as Chernobyl which was the opposite in every way: design, process, oversight, management, leadership.
*That reason is partly informed by the dumbass movie “China Syndrome” which was outrageously wrong on how reactor safety is designed everywhere except the Soviet Union.
Sonofabitch found my next phone. Wow.
Yes.
Pixar had a systems failure and found their unverified backups weren’t working, so they lost a year’s work - basically all of Toy Story.
One of their animators had a copy at home (which she had because she was working from home while pregnant).
They went to her house and hauled the entire system back to the office and recovered the work.
Ta-da. An entire video in 3 sentences.
Excellently put.
It frustrates me to no end that this kind of longer view is rarely taken.
As my grandfather would say “who’s ox is getting gored?”. Some beneficiaries drive such change, some stand by and wait for their opportunity to collect their share.
Too much of this seems pushed by monied interests just using sophistry to make this sound like it’s better for everyone.
Neat! Thanks for the insight
Maybe, maybe not.
Solid objects aren’t always stronger, strangely enough. I’m no mechanical engineer, so I can’t explain it. I assume it has to do with how stress is tranferred.
The end.
Keep a journal.
I have a single journal for daily events, in excel of all things.
I have a title column, date, related to (Linux, Tailscale, Health, etc) then a Notes column. This way I can filter on the related to column and search it.
I have links to OneNote pages (or just titles), and could easily do the same with Obsidian or anything else. There are years of notes in it now. Anything I’ve fixed is in there, so easy to find again with my own wording (which is how it started, then I realized keeping a separate personal journal made it harder to see things in general, or connections specifically) .
On my phone I use an app called… Memento. It’s like excel, but designed for a simpler UI. Easy for me to create new databases on a whim, or simply add info to one.
I believe many people witg ADHD have a working memory deficit too, so getting new info into long term memory is more crucial for them.
I also agree that handwritten is generally best for journals/notes like this, I just needed it to be searchable.
If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth writing down.
Quote of the day there.
So if you think a Tensor 5-powered Pixel 10 will be usable in 7 years, while it may be still getting updates… I got oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you.
The only reason I’m on a Pixel 5 (which I bought last year - 2024) is because I couldn’t run a recent enough version of Android on my 2017 phone.
Phone hardware has been pretty good since at least then. If I’m happy with this performance, the only reason it would get reduced is by bloat in the OS and apps.
Oh, for sure.
I do what I can, which is better than not at all. Some days I put a lot in there, some days I can’t be bothered, and that’s ok. My spreadsheet has helped me find software fixes I’ve seen before, rather than relying on a web search. Plus it’ll have my notes with links to my own tools/folders, etc.
The phone app I find useful for health stuff, since I wont remember the last time a symptom occurred, or something new started - you never know when say a random pain in your thumb will be meaningful info.