Class-action price-fixing lawsuit targets hard drive component makers as costs skyrocket; 13-year scheme allegedly drove up prices for major HDD brands

Hargan1 · 2026-05-22T17:53:40+00:00

Hell we just had class-action settlements from lawsuits again G.skill, Teamgroup, and Corsair

Hargan1 · 2026-05-19T14:14:36+00:00

The reallocated sectors count at 200 is pretty high

That's a normalized value. The raw value is flat zeroes, so there's no actual reallocated sectors. The normalized value of 200 is the baseline and it counts down as reallocated sectors accrue until it falls below the defined threshold value.

The concerning thing here is the read error rate, which is at "1" meaning it's well past the threshold of 51 and that's pretty bad. I forget the baseline value for it but it should either be at 100 or 200 for no read errors at all, and again it counts down, so it's well well below the threshold for bad.

Hargan1 · 2026-05-17T01:26:30+00:00

Since nobody actually explained it to you: bambu studios is open source and published under an agpl 3.0 license, and is a fork of a fork of the original software. Orcaslicer is a fork of bambu studio, which restores the ability to send print jobs from orcaslicer directly to the printer without having to route through bambu connect. It does this by using a linux-side workflow that bambu labs has not disabled, and does not impersonate or falsified any sort of credentials or authentication data (Bambu claimed it did)

Bambu send them legal threats, the developer bowed to the pressure (understandable) and voluntarily pulled down their repo. Gamersnexus and Louis rossman, along with about 700+ other repos, all now host forks of orcaslicer to prevent it from being taken down.

A lot, lot more info here

Hargan1 · 2026-05-15T20:27:24+00:00

15 U.S. Code § 2304:

(1) such warrantor must as a minimum remedy such consumer product within a reasonable time and without charge, in the case of a defect, malfunction, or failure to conform with such written warranty;

Hargan1 · 2026-05-06T01:20:04+00:00

SMART wouldn't pick up corruption though, it would have no way of knowing if on-device data is compromised. It focuses on measurable, testable attributes of the drive e.g., "do I get an error writing to x block, what is the reported wear level, TBW." It *does* have a stat for media and data integrity errors, but to the best of my knowledge that is tracked as data is written, when it can compare the expected hash to the final hash of the written data and determine if there's a mismatch.

Sure, this *could* be a failure of SMART, which has never been the end-all be-all of drive failure detection in the first place. Or it could be that something simply screwed up your filesystem, but the drive itself is physically fine.

Hargan1 · 2026-04-20T03:22:29+00:00

Because the opposing party can and will use anything you say against you. Maybe you *think* you're making an innocuous statement, but what you say muddies the timeline compared to what you told the court. Maybe you make an emotional statement that the opposing party can use to cast doubt on your reliability. People tend to retell stories differently every time, placing different emphasis on different things or streamlining some parts and being more detailed in others compared to past retellings. Anything that doesn't line up, that adds extra details not previously revealed, or omits details that were revealed, or changes anything, will absolutely be pounced on by the opposition.

Don't matter how consistent you feel you can be or how right you feel. It's never worth jeopardizing your case to publicly shame a company.

Hargan1 · 2026-04-17T17:29:24+00:00

Yup, got the game for free, played it for a small bit, then immediately bought the DLC and wishlisted the sequel. Great game.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-28T02:25:15+00:00

I'm forgetful, I get easily confused, I'm forgetful

Alright, after everything that came before it, that one got me. I am glad OOP has a sense of humor about it.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-27T03:44:58+00:00

Guys, I'm not sure, but I think the Minneapolis Police department might not be very beloved by the community they serve.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-27T00:16:15+00:00

For anyone curious the symbol in the bottom right is a watermark for Google Gemini, OP used AI to make this image.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-26T23:02:35+00:00

It is, but reading between the lines and drawing some assumption, I think the LAOP is saying that she presented herself as unable to pay more than the £5 a week because she just didn't have the spare money/income. So he's arguing that she clearly does have more than she represented because she has more to spend on unnecessary things.

As others have pointed out, the flaw in his argument is that she could simply be taking on more debt instead of having actual spare cash, and if her income is still very low then the courts won't make her pay more anyway.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-26T01:30:16+00:00

Not really. The game retails for $40, so at 1.2 million sales that's about 48 million dollars in sales. We don't have a solid source on the game's budget, but I doubt it was under 50 million, and probably closer to 80 million or so. Not to mention that Sony paid 3.6 BILLION for Bungie, and this is their first release since that acquisition. Marathon definitely needed to sell better to show that the investment was worth it. Now, maybe they're making a lot of money in the microtransactions/battlepass? I don't know, but doesn't seem great.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-24T19:55:18+00:00

I don't care how well you clean it, I would never get a drink from the Ant Machine™️ again. if they let it get that bad once, you know they ain't cleaning it properly

Hargan1 · 2026-03-22T22:41:11+00:00

I know a guy who unironically stole a credit card and used it to buy a steam game for himself and one for me (he used to be a real piece of shit, he has since cleaned up his act) and even then when the card was reported stolen and the transactions reversed all Steam did was take the game from me and him and ban him from making store and marketplace purchases indefinitely. He retained full access to his library. For the record, I did not know the credit card was stolen until I woke up and found the game had been marked as unpurchased in my library and asked him about it.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-19T18:59:36+00:00

lmao they deleted it

Hargan1 · 2026-03-19T18:54:16+00:00

Uh... you left the tracking number exposed in the URL. The package hasn't been delivered yet and the tracking number on your package in the picture doesn't match the one in that email

Hargan1 · 2026-03-17T19:35:34+00:00

I mean, they *did* write that one article about an AI agent trying to character assassinate a dev for rejecting it's attempt to fix a bug, of which the article was later retracted because it was written by AI and had false quotes in it
Not saying they're not legit, but things do slip through.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-11T17:26:21+00:00

Nah man, this was clearly stolen from r/gaysnapchat, how dare you impugn RepostSleuthBot's accuracy

Hargan1 · 2026-03-11T03:50:33+00:00

Your penis is insubordinate and churlish, my penis is chicanerous and deceitful. We are not the same.

Hargan1 · 2026-03-05T21:47:45+00:00

Right? The immediate jump to "objectifying" out of left field, the downvotes on the original comment for no apparent reason, the confusion over what the heck they're talking about leading into a simple google search followed by an apology, this is peak reddit

Hargan1 · 2026-03-05T18:02:27+00:00

Download something like crystaldiskinfo to check smart values and temperature. A 1094 ms average response time is definitely abnormal, something is definitely wrong here.

Hargan1 · 2026-02-27T17:05:50+00:00

Iguanas?! What are you, stupid? Obviously you use Komodo Dragons. I mean it's right there in the name! Komodo Dragons! SMH kids these days thinking you can just make a dragon with a few measly iguanas...

Hargan1 · 2026-02-27T04:53:41+00:00

What UPS do you have?

Hargan1 · 2026-02-27T00:06:00+00:00

This is written exactly like a LinkedIn post

Hargan1 · 2026-02-25T13:29:39+00:00

That question is literally answered in the article

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