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I'm more disturbed that the labelling on the box is in comic freaking sans.

Agree.

Lawnmower vs zombie gore > every other bit of gratuitous splatter in PJ's early work.

This one's tough, because I like James Spader's ridiculous character in season 8 a lot, but think the rest of the story had long since run its course.

The whole retail store story arc was quite a damp squib, and it feels like the show never really recovered.

I watched MKBHD's review earlier today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOh12Uhg08

Major takeaway was the visibility - both forward and rear - is absolutely atrocious. The A pillars are comically enormous and horribly placed which looks like it leads to quite the tunnel vision in the front, and with the tonneau cover closed the rear view mirror is completely blocked and you're left to rely on a video feed on the centre console display.

Marques (who I gather is quite tall) described an inability to see the front corner due to the extreme slope of the front end, so that'll be "fun" for shorter people too.

People are going to get killed by this monstrosity.

To expand on @doeknius_gloek's comment, those categories usually directly correlate to a range of DWPD (endurance) figures. I'm most familiar with buying servers from Dell, but other brands are pretty similar.

Usually, the split is something like this:

• Read-intensive (RI): 0.8 - 1.2 DWPD (commonly used for file servers and the likes, where data is relatively static)
• Mixed-use (MU): 3 - 5 DWPD (normal for databases or cache servers, where data is changing relatively frequently)
• Write-intensive (WI): ≥10 DPWD (for massive databases, heavily-used write cache devices like ZFS ZIL/SLOG devices, that sort of thing)

(Consumer SSDs frequently have endurances only in the 0.1 - 0.3 DWPD range for comparison, and I've seen as low as 0.05)

You'll also find these tiers roughly line up with the SSDs that expose different capacities while having the same amount of flash inside; where a consumer drive would be 512GB, an enterprise RI would be 480GB, and a MU/WI only 400GB. Similarly 1TB/960GB/800GB, 2TB/1.92TB/1.6TB, etc.

If you only get a TBW figure, just divide by the capacity and the length of the warranty. For instance a 1.92TB 1DWPD with 5y warranty might list 3.5PBW.

To make it worse, we have our own in New Zealand, which is the (worldwide) original of that format. The Aussie series is a spin-off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Patrol_(New_Zealand_TV_series)

Also don't forget this decade's follow on:

People started putting Airtags in their suitcases because they wanted to know where their luggage was and call the airlines on their BS, so they banned those in checked bags too.

Zero attempt to remedy the root cause, but damned if they aren't going to stop people trying to cure the symptoms.

And even apparently from name brands.

My sister bought a low-end Samsung tablet (some years ago admittedly), and it NEVER received a software update in the 3 years she owned it. Not a major update, not a security patch, nothing.

I'd hope they've gotten better about that, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I would contend that bricks are technically region locked, for the majority of people.

That is, if you see the shipping cost of getting one to a different region, you're absolutely going to leave it in its country of origin.

Those of us who had to develop websites and make them even vaguely functional in IE6 haven't forgotten.

Dark times, those were.

Meanwhile...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_microsoft/

[...] while Microsoft charges $10 a month for the service, the software giant is losing $20 a month per user on average and heavier users are costing the company as much as $80 [...]

Mmm hmmm.

This could be one form of "course correction"; few people are going to care to participate if they're forced to pay what it actually costs.

Except that they've ruined that too. You now need an account to view anything, so the reach of announcements is greatly diminished.

At this point leaving shouldn't really be too difficult, since a large portion of your audience already has; because they've been shut out, or have quit voluntarily.