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  • I was literally looking for something like this the other day

    The best I could find was a nearly two grand a month season pass that would only let me go between the two stations I would use most.

    Imagine the car you could get on lease, insured, taxed and filled up with petrol for that money

    It’s completely unbalanced to an embarrassingly ridiculous degree. We need to remove all subsidies being put into car travel and shift it into public transport


  • This is all assuming it’s a spinning disk and not an SSD, so ignore me if that’s the case:

    Given SAS drives are usually used in data centre storage array applications and 3TB disks have been kinda small for that use case for a fair while, there’s a fairly high chance it was in heavy use for a good number of years. I’d bet it’s probably well on its way to being a paperweight regardless of your connectivity situation.

    If you do get it hooked up, don’t store anything on it you wouldn’t be okay losing.















  • The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.

    Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more




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    Surely they’re just gonna be left with visa slavery?

    There’s already an ick associated with working for Amazon, when they start cutting the upsides* why would anyone stick around? I’d personally take a pay cut to go elsewhere if my current job forced me to go in 5 days a week

    *Though IMO hybrid working is no longer remotely considered a perk and is the expected norm in this industry now. Even before the pandemic, my previous employer already let us work from home once a week if you wanted to.