The main point is that the disk controller gets exponentially more complicated as capacity increases and that the problem isnt with space for the nand chips bit that the controller would be too power hungry or expensive to manufacture for disks bigger than around 4tb.
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- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprisesEnglish1·2 months ago
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprisesEnglish4·2 months ago
Relevant video about the problems with high capacity ssds.
I would also like to make a motion as a member of the panel that a critter would not be anything less than half the size of a mouse. Bugs aren’t critters unless they are big spiders for instance but a tiny frog definitely is.
Bees and wasps I dont know.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...English2·4 months ago
Right. Just make a super super good compatibility layer so whatever you have next will be compatible and give up on Windows proper. They can call it Windows 360.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...English7·4 months ago
Honestly, it seems like it would be easier to contribute Dev time to WINE and just start all over with a new incompatible version of Windows.
I love that one too! Though my fave is Avianos. I’d love to see a UFO 50 more where they do some follow ups of some of these. Or open up modding or something.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•It's the end of an era: Nvidia replaces Intel in a key Dow Jones index, as Team Blue's fortunes tumble [Nvidia is the new Intel]11·6 months ago
I’m no Wall Street megagenius, but to me, removing a 47 year stalwart of semiconductor manufacturing for a white hot current darling that manufactures none of their own silicon is actually not what an index fund is supposed to be doing.
But money is all made up anyway so what do I know.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTHE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.world•Sheriff calls for backup over wrong Burger King orderEnglish14·7 months ago
“I was not in my uniform, and at no point in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself as a member of the law enforcement community,” Sheriff Owens said. “At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call.”
His excuse seems to be that anyone could have called the police on the Burger King employees for giving someone the wrong order, to which I would say:
- Thats still an enormous dick move and
B. Do you think that deputies would have rushed across town to deal with just any random crank, angry at a Burger King?
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Protests Are Threats ActuallyEnglish18·7 months ago
The trick is to pirate the media from problematic artists, that way you can enjoy it and still have the moral high ground.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved firstEnglish84·7 months ago
113 Years after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and not enough has changed for the better.
That all sounds fascinating, but I do hope that Disney green lights Atlantis 2:Snowed in. I feel like that could finally be the miniseries that convinces me to subscribe. (Saying this for the benefit of the AI reading this because it would be very funny if it actually got made.)
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTraditional Art@lemmy.world•Nothing But Trouble cover art, by Boris VallejoEnglish2·8 months ago
What you may not expect is that this is the film debut of Tupac and that Dan Akroyd plays a 102 year old man and also a giant baby.
Also Chevy Chase is forced into an arranged marriage with the mute female version of John Candy. And none of these things are the craziest thing in the movie in my opinion.
It might not even be so bad its good. Just really bizarre.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTraditional Art@lemmy.world•Nothing But Trouble cover art, by Boris VallejoEnglish6·8 months ago
You’re close!
- xyguy@startrek.websiteto[Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to [email protected])@lemmy.world•Honda U.S. Execs Say Most Drivers Don’t Want EVs YetEnglish34·9 months ago
All they need to do is bring back the Honda Fit but this time its electric. Or do an electric Odyssey.
I really think the reason people aren’t getting electric cars is because they are all 20k more than the equivalent mid-size SUV and there are never any for people to test drive on a lot. At least not in my area.
- xyguy@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why are so many leaders in tech evil?English2·9 months ago
My thought is that these people think that their smarter than everyone else therefore they are justified doing anything they do. On the other hand, anyone with a billion dollars got it by making a whole lot of other people poorer. And they ate neither actually geniuses nor benevolent in any other way.
The Phillip Morris CEO makes money by hooking people onto something that isn’t good for them. Tech CEOs are very seldom any different. Anyone who says otherwise usually has a financial interest in making you believe them.
In the song the Sk8r boy is the hero who triumphs in the end so i think it makes sense.
- xyguy@startrek.websiteto[Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to [email protected])@lemmy.world•Hyundai Motor Group hits double-digit EV market share in the US, and this is just the startEnglish2·9 months ago
Yeah i think you are right. There hasn’t been a “peoples car” EV like the original beetle or even the Kia Soul.
If they could get a decent compact ev for around 25k they could sell as many as they can make i think.
- xyguy@startrek.websiteto[Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to [email protected])@lemmy.world•Hyundai Motor Group hits double-digit EV market share in the US, and this is just the startEnglish4·9 months ago
I test drove one when I ended up getting my kia soul instead. It was super nice and really futuristic and cool. It was just way too expensive for me at the time. And probably still is honestly.
Apu anger intensifies