That’s the thing I am trying to point out. Like if you get lucky some of their models appear near perfect and seem to keep lasting forever.

But I’ve experienced the other side of the coin where I had a hard hardware failure on a hdd, the warranty and replacement process was insanely painful. Then when I finally got a replacement it also had a failure. Same painful replacement process. The 3rd one wasn’t even the same model but at least it worked.

One of the sister drives of the first one had a hardware failure shortly afterwards. I didn’t even bother going through the RMA process and just migrated to Samsungs.

Right, I’m never going back to Seagate. Their drives are shit. Although I do have 2 IronWolf 10TBs setup in raid and they have been going nearly 8 years nonstop now.

Next time I shit in my bosses coffee I’ll blame AI. After all he required me to use it more.

Shit parents gave us Trump and Vance… Think about that.

Probably a better parent than most nowadays.

It’s gonna be fun when people are sitting around a campfire talking about how bad tech ceos, wall street backed corporations, enshittification, corrupt politicians and fascism all led to the extinction of the tech golden age… as they prepare their spears to fight the next wave of machines coming to harvest them.

I got Linux, but like I have some OSs that rely on ancient shit I can’t get my addicted ass off of

I’ve had a Win 7 running for 12 years as a media server, never once been hacked.

ISPs and even old school Win 7 to Win 10 OSs have the old ports blocked by default that prevent “drive-by malware”.

What you are talking about is the equivalent of a Boogeyman that only exists because people are stupid about what they open up or install or allow to control their firewalls. Your points even prove that.

You can open a Netscape browser on Windows 95 and not get hacked. But of course you believe opening a browser opens you wide up so just ignore what I say.

Well it’s TACO Tuesday… Again…

As long as you are not blasting away on random sites downloading every link you see then you are pretty safe. The old days of a hacker getting into your PC because you forgot to update your firewall are kind of gone.

I’m banking on the world ending before then. Or I get an incurable cancer. Either way, fuck Microsoft.

I’m not taking all the credit but I do hope those people who didn’t believe me in the past could rightfully take this comment, print it, pull down their pants and shove it up their ass.

It’s time to hold journalism with a higher standard and this idea that “well they do alright” and “it was only once” is bullshit sliding into madness.

Just the facts, folks.

Gonna be fun times in courts as anyone can claim something was generated by AI even if an artist claims they created it.

I wonder if this will end up limited to art or can be expanded to other copyrighted works.

Wow California leading the way to fascism, who woulda thunk?

I pointed out a month ago that Ars Technica is a rot site and starting to be filled with AI regurgitated bullshit and got 80+ down votes and a few uneducated replies.

Y’all feel better now?