Don’t forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

Then that’s changed since the last time I toyed with the idea. Which, granted, was probably 20 years ago…

The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there’s no real competition as a result.

When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn’t need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.

When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.

The “Information Superhighway” is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.

What’s crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.

When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn’t then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.

But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.

What’s crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.

It’s Apple. They make everything other than just using their own stuff harder.

It’s kinda their whole shtick.

If he doesn’t want it, I’ll take it! 🤣

Prebuilt is almost always the wrong answer. That holds true in way more fields than just technology as well.

The phrase “bought versus built” comes to mind.

You can almost always build exactly what you need for less money or headache than you think.

Will you maybe spend a little more than buying some cheap one-off? Possibly. However, the best part of building it yourself is that you’ll also typically know exactly what you’ve got, and if you use off-the-shelf parts, replacements and upgrades are easier in the long run.

TCO. Total Cost of Ownership.

Except you don’t need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.

Google Glass seeing all the new AR glasses: “Man, they just weren’t ready for me yet…”

+1 For hass.

How many years will that mower last though? I have a riding mower that I paid $2100.00 for… 14 years ago.

You can buy a NAS case, get a cheap matx or itx motherboard and roll your own with ease. Where exactly have you looked?

Here’s one such case: https://a.co/d/eUz87Mh

Apparently you don’t. Because you are the one confused about how one can get a car delivered to their home instead of going to the dealership.

The same trucks that tow cars can tow new ones to you.

It’s not a difficult concept.

Tell me you’ve never had to have your broken car towed to your home because you couldn’t afford a mechanic.

People have cars hauled to their home all the time on a flatbed tow truck.

Those cars do not rack up mileage while on said flatbed truck.

The dominant failure mode of an SSD is to become read-only. There’s no data loss there…

Sooo only gonna blow up the test databases?

Depends how bad the turbulence is.

Oh yeah, I remember realizing my new razr had that and started going text crazy.

I felt the same way the first time I discovered swipe-to-type on a smartphone! 🤣

And they could sell a solar panel pack called a rama!

Bananarama