CTDummy

Every now and then someone at work will mention soccer and I think “I should give it a go” and then I see embarrassing shit like this and remember why I don’t.

I don’t necessarily agree with taking the dudes aircraft, though this is likely a known punishment to pilots. However, there are communities with high levels of unemployment and subsequently high rates of alcohol abuse, alcohol related violence and anti-social behaviour. Unfortunately, when a large proportion of the community abuse alcohol all day and fight in broad daylight, this is what happens as a result.

People who are employed, women, children and so on are the ones who have their safety impacted because of it. I grew up in a rural city and the was a lot of drinking going on and we weren’t even made a dry town. One close to us did and for good reason. That’s just my country though, I don’t know if the US makes areas “dry” just because; although it would be on brand with its government if it did.

into a dry community.

Typically there is a reason communities are “dry” as anyone who’s lived in rural areas will tell you and it isn’t as pleasant as “just because”. Also I don’t know why multiple articles (including this one) are framing it like this. Dude had three cases of beer on the aircraft according to the legal document.

Man, leave ants outta this, they’re already having a hard time.

I'm pretty sure you need to be 18 to post here.

Why oh why is no one concerned about the use of “and” here?

Would games that use ASCI tile sets by useful for this or would it be sensory overload? RSS feeds maybe?

Luckily I quoted you, which shows that you have defined “repair” so narrowly as to exclude taking actions to restore a product to put back into service.

Yes, that would be a compelling point did I not, twice, tell you your interpretation of my quote is incorrect and go on to clarify it as an example. I think this makes your intentions clear enough that it isn’t worth continuing wasting time on. All I’ll say is I’m glad you have nothing to do with making the specifications for this sort of hardware and that it’s left to competent and educated engineers. Assault on repair, good lord lol.

Me providing an example of a repair is not me claiming it is the only method of repair.

If someone can make a degraded product useful again, it’s neither your place nor the manufacturers place to tell advanced users/repairers not to -- to dictate what is appropriate.

Except, again, you aren’t making it useful again, you’re attempting to bypass a fail safe put in place by engineers. You aren’t repairing anything to make useful again, you aren’t fixing any part of the SSD. You’re merely attempting to bypass a “lockout”. You aren’t arguing to repair the drive; you’re arguing to keep using after this point (which is fine, even if I disagree with it).

That’s because you’re not making the distinction between reading and writing, and understanding that it’s writing that fails. The fitness to write to a NAND declines gradually with each cycle. Every transistor is different. A transistor might last 11,943 cycle…

The first paragraph quoted (and the article as whole) cover reads, different between different drives (including different specs for enterprise vs consumer) and how the values are drawn. 10k is for intel 50nm MLC NAND specifically. Other values are presented in the article. It isn’t arbitrary as you’ve attempted to hand wave it as. I suggest you read it in its entirety. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the software standard is, the oxide on the drive will eventually wear down and is a physical problem.

I am being artificially blocked from returning the product into useful service

Except it isn’t useful service. I would have a hard time buying that a a pre-fail drive, even second hand, is useful for service. I get what you’re going for/saying but again it doesn’t pass for right to repair imo. It’s risking data loss to wring an extra 12 months (or likely, less) from a dying drive. For every 1 person like you that its an annoyance for it saves multitudes more that are less savvy pointlessly risking data loss.

“Repair” does not necessarily mean returning to a factory state.

I didn’t claim as such and replacing a faulty or damaged module wouldn’t return it to factory condition. I wouldn’t consider “hacking” a drive to continue using it when you shouldn’t a repair. As far as I’m aware it’s to comply with JEDEC standards.

There's now ambiguity between bits which, if this cell were allowed to remain active in an SSD, would mean that when you go to read a file on your drive there's a chance that you won't actually get the data you're requesting. A good SSD should mark these bits bad at this point.

There's a JEDEC spec that defines what should happen to the NAND once its cells get to this point. For consumer applications, the NAND should remain in a read-only state that can guarantee data availability for 12 months at 30C with the drive powered off.

I just don’t see how using a drive into the period where it’s likely to fail and lose data, against specification, is a good idea. Let alone a right to repair issue.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4902/intel-ssd-710-200gb-review/2

Fuck haggling. I set a lower price because I want something in good condition gone and would rather it be used than go to landfill. Set a price and that’s it. People want to haggle on marketplaces because they either have nothing better to do or resell. Don’t be a party to it imo. Makes it much easier because you ignore tyre kickers who obviously don’t read as well.

Having grown up around similar dipshits, I can definitely understand. It happens.