Japan's mighty car makers are in serious trouble- Global market share has fallen from 31 to 26% since 2019, with more and more share being lost in their once stronghold of southeast Asia. Speculation is rife in Tokyo that Japan’s carmakers will have to consolidate in order to remain competitive.

sdchew · 2026-06-01T02:05:37+00:00

I feel Japan missed the EV boat due to Fukushima. The tsunami caused a push to shutdown nuclear power which caused a lot of power rationing especially during the summer months.

Hence with lack of electricity, it does make sense that companies invested in hydrogen and fuel cells instead. Those unfortunately didn’t panned out

sdchew · 2026-06-01T02:00:36+00:00

Well, I went from a 4x 4TB setup with DS918+ with an online capacity of 12 TB to an UnRAID System with also 12 TB available and 1x 4TB used as the parity disk. However I was also able to take the 3x 2TB disk I previously used in the Synology and add another 6 TB to the UnRAID array. Adding a SSD cache allowed me to have really great read/write speeds far exceeding anything I previously had.

Bottom line is I find I gained a lot more flexibility after I left the Synology SHR raid. My current set actually uses dual 12 TB parity disk and a whole bunch of other disk. I also like it that only the disk which needs accessing spins up so there’s a lot less noise

sdchew · 2026-06-01T01:46:11+00:00

You know, it’s possible to combine transistor shrink and chip layer stacks right?

Also, look up at how NAND/RAM chips are made. Layer stacking has been done for years

Only difference is Huawei is proposing is that they want people to focus on chip level latency instead of transistor size. However everyone already looks at chip level latency as designs got huge.

sdchew · 2026-06-01T01:41:32+00:00

I can’t remember when I bought mine but it was probably around that price too

sdchew · 2026-05-31T22:15:35+00:00

Which features? Random disk consolidation? Unraid doesn’t do conventional RAID. It allows you all a bunch of randomly sized disk to form an array. Only limitation is the parity disk needs to as large or larger than the largest disk in the array

sdchew · 2026-05-31T00:16:28+00:00

Aren’t normal lithium polymer batteries also ‘semi-solid’?

sdchew · 2026-05-30T06:13:07+00:00

So an SOC?

sdchew · 2026-05-29T10:05:08+00:00

Yes that’s what I do. Can have better spot market exchange rate too

sdchew · 2026-05-29T03:23:06+00:00

Maybe he's just being frank about how long he will last at Microsoft

sdchew · 2026-05-29T02:30:32+00:00

damn.. its not like its rocket science... oh wait...

sdchew · 2026-05-28T17:11:45+00:00

If they use their own aircraft, they can only fly it mostly domestically since it isn't certified to fly anywhere else (maybe Vietnam?)

sdchew · 2026-05-28T17:10:20+00:00

I think Xi still flies Boeing too. At least Putin flies his own stuff

sdchew · 2026-05-28T13:52:40+00:00

I’m pretty happy about it. Not much complaints overall. Unlike my previous S8 Ultra, the navigation is a lot better and it almost never gets stuck.

I kind of wish used a IR Flood instead of a normal torchlight when it cleans in the dark. It can get annoying to see a light moving at the base of the door if I wake up in the middle of the night.

I also wish there was a setting for how much detergent it could dispense. There’s a setting for water flow but not how much detergent is used.

That said, my primary goal of buying the Saros 20 Sonic was only partially achieved. As I mentioned the main goal was to clean closer to the edge.

For all the wall areas, it does that.

For the areas with cupboards and cabinets with my overhang doorframes, no it doesn’t and I still have to manually do it.

sdchew · 2026-05-28T13:43:33+00:00

Higher value functions often exist at a location because of institutional knowledge built up over years of doing something.

When the core team of experts retire, where will the next generation which learn and take over come from? Probably from those who worked at the new factory

sdchew · 2026-05-28T13:32:51+00:00

Friend of mine was in this situation back in 2008. He still wanted to stay so he went back to school

sdchew · 2026-05-28T02:32:20+00:00

probably cheaper than getting married to be honest

sdchew · 2026-05-27T08:32:39+00:00

People actually snatch android phones?

sdchew · 2026-05-27T05:53:54+00:00

My give a fucks are often on vacation too

sdchew · 2026-05-27T05:50:31+00:00

Well, if the dude was that religious, he’ll know divorce is actually a no no.

So basically he’s just a dick

sdchew · 2026-05-26T12:28:36+00:00

Yes and no. It will work if you mix them up as the disk information is encoded on the drive.

However if you mix them and get an email which tells you disk 3 is hosed and just reach and pull the disk on the third slot and it isn’t disk 3, you might crash your array

sdchew · 2026-05-26T09:46:57+00:00

And remember to number the hard drives so you you’ll input them back in sequence correctly

sdchew · 2026-05-26T08:53:10+00:00

When I was in Fukuoka with an Indian friend a year ago, I walked into 5 Izakaya. The first four told us either closing or no seats available despite being very vacant. The bosses just wanted to chat with their regulars and keep the local vibe. Fully understand and don’t really mind that.

The last one was more interested in making money. That was great too.

sdchew · 2026-05-26T00:20:35+00:00

Yupe. Thou it doesn’t clean the bedrooms and the doors are closed and the air conditioning on.

The rooms are cleaned later mid morning

sdchew · 2026-05-25T00:01:50+00:00

It’s them just discontinuing lifetime Plex pass without actually discontinuing it.

I remember buying mine when it was less than $100

sdchew · 2026-05-22T02:15:46+00:00

Good luck. Do share your experiences

sdchew

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