The fact they are currently trying to find the crash site doesn't speak well for the unknown mortality of the occupants.

Good. The time to stop is when Russia leaves Ukraine.

We don't yet know if he actually did anything here or not, we will find out when the legal challenges are done. On one hand, it may survive, in which case something was actually accomplished, on the other hand, Biden may have wasted a whole bunch of people's time and clogged up the courts even more than they already are.

I always wondered why this was not a thing, particularly when short-range heat-seakers were the best missiles on order.

This is a product you pay for and it doesn't respect your choices....

Twitter's rebrand.

I have not personally experienced a dropout with a SMR drive. That is from the reporting I saw when WD was shipping out SMR drives in their Red (NAS) lineup and people were having all kinds of issues with them. According to the article (below), it sounds like ZFS has the worst time with them. WD also lost a class action suit over marketing these as NAS drives, while failing to disclose they were SMR drives (which don't work well in a NAS).

We want to be very clear: we agree with Seagate's Greg Belloni, who stated on the company's behalf that they "do not recommend SMR for NAS applications." At absolute best, SMR disks underperform significantly in comparison to CMR disks; at their worst, they can fall flat on their face so badly that they may be mistakenly detected as failed hardware. Source

As you are looking for bulk data storage, the drive's speed isn't of too much concern. A 5400RPM drive is plenty.

If you are looking to put this drive into an array with other drives, make sure you get a CMR drive as SMR drives can drop out of arrays due to controllers finding them unresponsive. If a drive does not list it is CMR, it's best to assume it isn't. Seagate has a handy CMR chart, for example.

Additionally, if there are multiple spinning drives in the same enclosure, getting drives with vibration resistance is a good bonus. Most drives listed for NAS use will have this extra vibration resistance.

Unless China's plan is for Russia to leave Ukraine, I have a strong feeling it isn't going to work out.

In unrelated news, Russian occupied Belbek Airfield is on fire, with reported losses of Russian combat aircraft, an air-defense radar, and two S-400 anti-air missile launchers.

There is also https://odysee.com/. I'm just glad more people are working on and joining competing platforms. Youtube's near monopoly is not good.

From my experience, nothing. I’m not sure what the guy is complaining about.

It isn't just students. Interest rates in general were raised from their historic lows after the 2008 recession into the 2020 recession in order to fight inflation. Debt consolidation and refinances were hot hot hot in 2020/21.

This is also why it is easy to find a savings account with 5% interest today. Something that has been unheard of for nearly two decades.

There are lots of random assholes on the internet. I like when they are forced to stay on the internet and not able to bring their asshollery into one’s real life.

Damn fine work on the defender's part. I thought right at the start the guy coming over the top was going to get him.

German industry is/was in shambles as they allowed an unreliable trade partner, Russia, to completely take over a segment in the German economy (oil & gas). When that unreliable trade partner pulled the rug in 2022, suddenly Germany is paying out the ass for LNG, reducing factory output, even on-lining coal plants to keep the lights on.

It is simply a bad idea to allow an unreliable trade partner to take over a segment in your economy.

China is becoming an increasingly unreliable trade partner. Preventing them from taking over more of America's economy is prudent.

If you have a username attached to a publicly posted comment, people will be able to see your history. The internet is forever. Publicly posted comments are, by definition, not private. Treating them as such, in any capacity, is a mistake.

The biggest thing is to not post personal details, or to even post accumulations of details over many comments that can narrow things down. The weather where you are at the time, what type of car you drive (or your lack of a car), what type of job you have, etc, etc, etc. On their own, each of these pieces of information don't mean much, but you start putting them together and you can narrow things down considerably.

It is also not a bad idea to occasionally throw in some misinformation about yourself. Maybe you don't drive a Corolla, but instead a Hilux.

Russia is free to go home. Until then, Ukraine will continue to dismantle Russia's ability to wage war.

The US government forcing GM to make a $100,000 luxury EV in 2008/9 would have been so laughably bad I can't put it into words. And yes, the $/kwh of batteries was terrible then, why do you think EVs were so damn expensive in 2009?

Review sites have historically been almost worthless in judging how good a game is (user reviews are where it is at). However, I'm really hoping this game is good. Homeworld 2 was great; another installment would be quite welcome.