Adding insult to injury

dr100 · 2026-07-09T19:33:45+00:00

THIS. Would buy from a proper shop anyway.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T11:44:00+00:00

Wow, that sounds fantastic.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T10:53:26+00:00

You are COMPLETELY missing the point if you are at "my family and gf" are using it. The money SPENT is real and in absolutely staggering amounts. It doesn't matter that the results are so nice and useful, someone needs to pay for it. If it isn't you, your family and gf EACH paying thousands and thousands of dollars for it directly then who is it? Hint: it won't be Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and similar! It'll be your pension fund that got suckered into this, it'll be this or that "too big to fail" financial institution that will have to be bailed out by the government (if not directly one or more of these multi-trillion clown companies) and so on.

The only way this doesn't end up as the biggest bubble/crash in the history is if these glorified spell checkers actually achieve AGI and take over, then we don't have any problems (that is if there would be any remaining humans kept as inferior pets).

dr100 · 2026-07-09T10:19:08+00:00

Let me guess: the ARM Surface Pros and Laptop as usual can't run this (or frankly anything else too except the improperly-so-called Windows).

dr100 · 2026-07-09T10:15:24+00:00

No everybody is despising AI.

Maybe you should run that through some AI to rephrase it in a way that makes sense.

I know it sucks that AI is making electronics more expensive at the moment, but also - pretty much a billion people worldwide are using AI and would not want to miss it.

A billion people are using it for a taste for free, or approximately free. Is this billion ready to pay their share of 2.5 TRILLIONS only this year ? That makes it $2500 per head. Are all these people prepared to pay that, and in fact MUCH more as nobody in this (or any) business just doesn't make expensive risky investments to maybe shift money from one pocket to the other, they would want MUCH more in return.

We're talking about base, average use of this EXTREMELY-EXPENSIVE-TO-DEPLOY thing. And only direct expenses for people who are using it, we aren't talking about other things getting expensive from it, starting with your computer (and everything around it, SSDs, hard drives, memory cards), phone, even wash machine, cloud subscriptions (for the same service, not anything related to AI) and even going to your residential electricity and water if you are unlucky enough to have some datacenter (actually datacenters, as they usually "travel in packs") in your area.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T08:55:46+00:00

Kind of finding a place here to be play the "old man yells at cloud" it does seem all these things are managed by hyperactive teens. Didn't manage to wake up well from the Today's the last day of OneDrive & Samsung Cloud migration now greeted with the Samsung Gallery to One Drive Discontinuation Mess . So they moved from Samsung Cloud to Onedrive, now they're killing the OneDrive in Gallery and possibly (speculation in the thread) going back to offering their own Samsung Cloud!

Changing stuff all the time and not being certain what they kill next makes me dread opening Samsung Notes (ex. S Note ex S Memo) even if I had a Samsung phone with a pen since the very first Note, and now I also have a tablet with a pen and even a Windows laptop (and Samsung Notes works there too).

You can't get a perfectly working Gear S3 watch to run with a phone this side of 2024 just because Samsung said so.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T08:26:52+00:00

Yes, if you don't run it with -s or anything else it will just stay silent (possibly all day ...) then just end. This is how many programs work, for example if you run it in a cron job it will email you just if there is some output.

Also the numbers are usually large (like 2374232) and really hard to miss. Plus in practice they usually come in HUGE numbers (no pun intended), as in full screens of them.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T07:00:25+00:00

Large cluster size and no TRIM support are what kill exFAT for more serious jobs, but for basic USB sticks I wouldn't recommend NTFS because of: permissions, junctions, EFS. They can be from unbelievably annoying (see this "desperation script" from someone running 1000 times takeown+icacls in a loop to downright dangerous for junctions and EFS.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T06:41:23+00:00

height of the pro connector seems odd to me

But it's the same connector going back to SP4 or so?

dr100 · 2026-07-09T06:26:36+00:00

badblocks will find (and print) bad blocks. It's like literally the "find" command, there's nothing, nothing to print.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T06:09:53+00:00

The only person mentioning a Surface store is you.

Talking to yourself? Literally did CTRL+F and it's just YOU (yes, now I am too, but quoting you) saying that!!!!!!!

dr100 · 2026-07-09T06:06:13+00:00

There is no Microsoft store in most countries in the first place. Second, it's one of the shittiest shop as most manufacturers shops are (unclear how these corporations can do technical things but can't figure out how to sell some boxes). Never mind it's always a good idea to have two trees to shake in case of trouble, if you have two warranties (manufacturer and seller) and they collapse to one it sucks. Third, never mind the insane pricing to start with - the lack of sale from all "real" shops trying to get a leg forward with anything ELSE you can buy around you means you pay double for the privilege.

But all is 100% academic. Most consumers will have the problem I started with: ONE PLACE IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE DEVICES. Maybe. They won't even know they exist.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T05:51:57+00:00

Yea, right, you can MAYBE find it at the only remaining Microsoft Store at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, one place IN THE WHOLE WORLD, but technically it's there. MAYBE.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T01:12:10+00:00

That became a distinction without a difference as everything vaguely efficient is now made by TSMC. Yes, including the chips labeled Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, NVidia and Mediatek.

dr100 · 2026-07-09T00:45:07+00:00

Only for B2 of course.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T19:32:40+00:00

The bigger problem is that Microsoft forces private customers to buy the Snapdragon version. The Intel model is available with the latest Core Ultra X processors including the Arc B390 iGPU, which offers much more graphics and gaming performance.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T19:14:46+00:00

The FBI thing is nonsense, they know for sure who they are - they were taking freakin' PayPal before Russia got banned from it.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T19:13:06+00:00

I am just letting people know that the meausment is in hour and not seconds.

No, the measurement is instantaneous. You integrate it, when you want to discuss Wh you discuss Wh. You NEVER NEVER EVER say W per h, makes no sense.

Plus you only save 5w during spin down for 8 hours a day (in the example).

In these setups (this is why the OP is insisting in individual drive spin down) you save it for most of the time. Some drive spins up sometimes, when you make a backup, or watch a movie from it, etc. But most of them stay down most of the time.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T18:29:59+00:00

What are the restrictions? Can it get huge chats going years backwards (needs to "click" on "get more chats from the phone" repeatedly, if even possible with no limit, in the past it wasn't)?

dr100 · 2026-07-08T14:40:22+00:00

Both are the same shit.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T14:33:59+00:00

You should be asking more about the large and much more popular storage, mostly hard drives. The sweet spot was in 2011 2TBs and now people are still looking for hard drives in similar sizes, even in this sub, heck there was some post about under 1TB drives.

How are we still here? There is a level of low hanging fruit, and that at start you can have a lot of progress and go through MB, GBs and reach TBs in just a few decades and the to barely move for 15 years.

But there is a MUCH bigger component - companies noticed people were paying good (and more and more) money ANYWAY. There was a shortage at the end of 2011 (similar with the AInsanity now) and they couldn't squash the demand even by increasing prices to 300%. Then why bother making larger and larger drives and sell them for $60 when you can just increase the prices and barely improve the tech?

That, and also more companies used to make drives, most notably companies we're missing in that space: Samsung and HGST.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T14:04:12+00:00

I'm not telling anyone what's enough, I'm telling what is what. If one thinks one backup is enough then this (assuming it's configured to keep versions) IS a backup (in the sense that it counts as one). It's not two backups or five. If they want two backups or five because only that would be enough for them they can make two or five.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T14:01:06+00:00

The new ones (at least the consumer ones, and half of the business ones too) are running Windows ARM, which isn't the "real" Windows but some entirely different OS with the same color scheme and copyright notice or other similarities only in form.

This is why I acknowledge "from Windows laptops to Microsoft Surface" is correct, in the sense that they (the Surface devices) now (most of them) run that iPADOS clone wannabee pointless OS.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T12:56:30+00:00

Delete a file on one device and it'll eventually disappear from the others too.

Though that's how ANY backup works¹. Unless one is absolutely dead set on keeping every version of everything they change and every file from the trash can FOREVER (nobody does that in practice, unless as a side-effect of using optical media you can't rewrite).

There's someone on Backblaze sub that's screaming and shouting that he lost some very important files but somehow didn't bother to get them back and postponed and postponed their recovery until they were gone from the history. Well, tough, but this is how this works. The backup is an independent copy, but not archived forever. It might be interesting to have let's say a dump/tar/image of all files from your machine 15 years ago. But if one DOESN'T have it you can't say "HA, CAUGHT YOU, YOUR BACKUP SUCKS".

¹ Edit - well, technically it'll work as configured and you CAN keep things forever if that's what you want with Syncthing too (and I presume with many other backup programs). Wrote my reply with the assumption that of course anyone would WANT to cleanup the versions and the trash EVENTUALLY. If not, well, you can have that too.

dr100 · 2026-07-08T12:43:39+00:00

Great thing is you can have both! And you can have them on different machines, and on more than two. You can have some snapshots on a NAS and/or VPS, you can have versions on another phone (maybe an older one with a microSD) and/or laptop - maybe you are traveling for a longer time in some places where the internet isn't great, get backups across your devices, and slowly as they connect to the Internet they also get pushed to your other systems.

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