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I get unreasonably upset with the fact there are so many product categories where you can’t buy a product without the brand name/logo slapped on it in a visible position.

I’m paying for the product, I don’t want to become your walking advertisement, nor do I automatically endorse your brand.

And that anecdote somehow means “never buy used drives, no matter what variables are at play”

Ah, that’s where the 40% markup they charge for hardware compared to other manufacturers selling the same part goes to! Gotta sponsor racists.

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Kate is $0 for life and you don’t even have to pay it and they have zero ai slop :)

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What kind of HDD? for what purpose? For what budget?

“Don’t buy used” is a dumb tip because it means nothing and addresses nothing.

I use a WD Enterprise HDD from 2012. I bought it used. It passes all tests with flying colours, zero issues so far… it keeps a mirror of my backup. It’s not my main backup, it’s a copy of a copy. Guess what? I paid an extremely low price for it as a student on a budget, yet it was already proven useful many times both for the backups but also to keep my torrents seeding for longer, and it if does indeed fail… no biggie, not even my backup is compromised.

There are excellent refurbished HDDs too. Either way, “don’t buy used” is the kind of blanket statement somebody cosplaying as a infosec home lab data specialist comments on Lemmy, but means absolutely nothing and offers no useful advice.

Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD

That’s not a good tip.

I’ll do what I always do: sigh and add another brand to my “do not buy from” list on my pocket notebook, which was meant to be a single page and is now filling three

This comment thread is not only a perfect example of a joke, but it gets to the core of what humour truly is! Do you want help crafting a poster for you to present your jokes at a conference?

Don’t worry, Lemmy censors security information and passwords automatically, see: ******

to ubiquitous shit-shoveling malware appliances controlled by some of the worst elements of society.

Hmmm, I wonder which background economical system we all live in that could explain why every single technology ends up controlled by the top 1% to make our lives more miserable and their profits higher…

Kate is amazing, which is not surprising given it’s a KDE app

Let’s make Debian or Arch just work

Wonder why that’s extremely rare on ARM devices, especially those with modems, and rarely works beyond proof of concepts on some very specific devices? Its not like you’re the first to have this idea.

I’ll use my de-Googled and update-blocked S23 until it’s physically unable to boot up, and hopefully by then I’ll find something that can run this OS, assuming it’s ready

How many months away are we from Windows requiring a subscription to use, with a cheaper version for the OS + Office and a more expensive that also bundles AI?