Rubbish trucks are a good example of this, often being drivable from either side (at least where I am). That allows the driver to better see their colleagues and bins on the roadside while driving in the suburbs, but switch to the regular position for driving to and from a landfill site.
Assuming you’re not talking about this article’s 7.68TB drive and not the mentioned 61.44TB one, actually far less than you’d think.
Solidigm’s equivalent (https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d7/ps1010.html) goes for between $1000 and $1500 USD for the same 7.68TB capacity: https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/7.68TB/SOLIDIGM/SB5PH27X076T001_394195.htm
(And performs similarly, 14.5GB/s R / 10GB/s W, vs 14.6/11 for the one in the article).
Reticulated gas is charged by the kWh here in New Zealand. The meter may well be calibrated in m³ (I don’t have gas at home, so I don’t know for sure) but all pricing is energy, not volume.
For bonus points, if instead you buy your gas in cylinders - a pair of 45kg (~100lb) cylinders is a common installation for houses without piped gas - those are sold simply by the unit. The best conversion for that I can find is one energy retailer describing one 45kg cylinder as 2200MJ (611kWh).
I expect this is one of those things that is overall horribly inconsistent depending on where you live.
Fully committing to the bit, their cafe sells penis-shaped waffles: https://www.phallus.is/phallic-cafe
Comparing the amount of noise my laptop’s CPU fans make between the two of them when doing moderately intensive tasks like screen sharing a 4K display, Zoom is measurably worse.
Possibly the one time that Microsoft’s inexplicable inability to make their own software run well on their own OS has somehow not manifested.
Don’t get me wrong, it is still death-by-a-thousand-cuts terrible, but the most current iteration of Teams is not the worst in its field… at this one specific thing.
As people have said, already happening:
https://www.dmarge.com/cars/tesla-owners-rebrand-backlash
And it’s not fooling anyone
“Binging with Babish” makes gourmet bachelor chow (beef bourguignon):
Even for devices that will stand the test of time on their own, they’re still being unnecessarily modified by the addition of extra nonsense to support AI boondoggles.
I was talking to our company’s account manager from one major PC manufacturer, he agreed that a generation of laptops with a likely-to-be-useless-in-future Copilot button permanently emblazoned on their keyboard will really date this era.
The computers themselves will be fine - they have some extraneous hardware but that doesn’t really detract from their usability - but there’s a better than even chance that logo will exist as a reminder long after memories of what it was supposedly for begin to fade.
Yes, but you shouldn’t.
After a reboot, a lot of phones can only use the device’s default keyboard app for entering the unlock pin/password.
If you’ve removed or disabled it, you can get into a situation where you have no keyboard at all, and a delightful chicken-and-egg situation of needing a keyboard you don’t have until after unlocking the device to enter the code to unlock the device.
(A USB keyboard will let you escape this, for what that’s worth)
You might have to consider buying used.
Even older HP printers are fine (and I know people love to shit on them, but they too used to be perfectly safe and reasonable choices). More or less the safe/unsafe divide coincides with the switch from printers with 2x16 character displays to ones with full colour screens.
I’ve got a 2012-designed (but mine is 2017-built) HP Colour Laserjet CP5225dn, it has none of the modern lock-in shenanigans.
Just gotta find one that’s new enough that consumables are still readily available (fortunately this usually isn’t too difficult), and in good physical condition.
I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn’t occurred to them :D
My general advice to people when shopping for used printers is if it’s new enough to have a colour LCD, it’s too new. Ones like this with a 2x 16 character display are predominantly safe.
This rule holds for more manufacturers than you might expect.
For my sins, I did end up with an HP. But it’s a 2012 model (my specific one was built in 2017 however), well predating HP’s bullshit. It’s a colour A3 laser with Ethernet and automatic duplex, so I’m happy enough with it.
Hey! I’ve seen this story before!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498335/
This wasn’t the kind of life-imitating-art I was hoping for.
That wasn’t my point, even remotely.
It was rather that they likely can’t just ignore this bullshit and carry on doing the right thing, no matter how much they should.
Sadly, as a traded company they would appear to have to at least respond to a “but but but muh shareholders!” argument, no matter the source (or how pathetic it is).
It’s not that they seemingly can’t (rightly) tell them to piss off, but it probably has to be done a lot more carefully.
It always seemed like an amazing way to speed-run repetitive strain injury to me.
Anything that requires that level of precision but offers basically zero range of motion just seems to force unnatural levels of tension in every muscle in your hand and wrist.
The things cause me agonising wrist pain within minutes of use, not something I’ve experienced with any modern (ie, larger than the postage stamp sizes of old) touchpad.
Good riddance.
Here’s another good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cp28hIMP94
Stacking 283(!) double mains adapters and measuring the voltage drop. Because it’s not just the cable, each plug/socket adds additional resistance.
Unfortunately a great many of them use Sodastream’s gas cylinders - after their patent expired and anyone could build a compatible unit - so you might not be able to escape them getting your money when buying CO2 refills, if there isn’t another brand of gas cylinder available where you shop.
Sodastream have released a new cylinder design (with a bayonet rather than screw fitting), presumably to again attempt to kill off the market for home refilling from a larger CO2 cylinder, or use in other brands of machines.
All of that said, I do like my Aarke machine.
The website also shows a large unpopulated section of PCB near the network jack with “PoE” silkscreened:
https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/3f5c4569bdef13d9e0bcfce8d5e2d780/00863/disassembled.webp
PoE built in could make this a very interesting device indeed.
The only one I got close on was I never had a chequebook of my own, but did on a couple of occasions use bank cheques for mail-ordered things.
Presuming we’re counting that, big fat goose egg.