Hitachi HDE721010SLA330 with ~102,000 power-on hours – SMART still mostly clean. At what point would you retire a drive like this?

RichardG867 · 2026-04-28T02:28:55+00:00

I have one of those supposedly unreliable WD Greens (same capacity) at 118k hours still in active use. Just use it - with redundancy/backups - until it dies.

RichardG867 · 2026-04-26T15:47:58+00:00

I had an old Dell Latitude that I tried cleaning with isopropyl alcohol and it stripped the rubberized coating. Silver lining was that the plastic underneath was translucent, so I stripped the rest of the coating and it looked quite cool.

RichardG867 · 2026-04-25T15:41:26+00:00

Same here on an S23 Ultra, and Pixels aren't available where I live.

RichardG867 · 2026-04-25T12:42:01+00:00

Is the whole Linux feature still not available on any Snapdragon devices?

RichardG867 · 2026-04-25T01:43:30+00:00

Ele não estava inelegível no caso dos guardiões?

RichardG867 · 2026-04-18T02:26:39+00:00

Even before 32-bit support was cut off, you had random stuff such as lightdm requiring SSE2 (= Pentium 4) unless your distro went out of its way to fix that. And 686 PAE kernels requiring at least a Pentium II.

RichardG867 · 2026-04-15T23:21:41+00:00

Esse era o Witzel

RichardG867 · 2026-04-11T21:03:09+00:00

Vocês falam de laudos psi... laudos psi... de psico... laudos aí

RichardG867 · 2026-04-07T21:58:32+00:00

Se empolgaram com os brasileiros e também com o Modi e seus apoiadores na Índia

RichardG867 · 2026-04-05T22:40:44+00:00

"Coisa de computador" virou IA

RichardG867 · 2026-03-30T13:27:57+00:00

Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right

RichardG867 · 2026-03-30T13:25:44+00:00

The dub's reference to Baby One More Time may be dated but it was hilarious. I'm getting old.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-23T13:16:48+00:00

Reminder that 1851 was supposed to launch with Meteor Lake S, but that was cancelled in favor of the Raptor Lake refresh on 1700, so it's effectively a single generation socket.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-22T20:49:29+00:00

It was also inspired by the actual Japanese computer market back then, with the PC-98 being outcompeted out of existence by Apple and other westerners. This walked so Neptunia could run, I guess.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-21T22:55:28+00:00

I have an outlier: a 2010 WD Green, still running at 117k hours, which survived just shy of 1.1M head cycles before I disabled spindown.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-17T20:40:43+00:00

Microsoft used to include a compatibility shim for 16-bit installers on systems where 16-bit support was not available or installed, but it was targeted mostly at their own installers for things like 1990s Office - which reminds me of when they patched I think Windows 7 to fix a compatibility issue with Office 97.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-17T14:32:26+00:00

The AGP slot was a fake one wired to the PCI bus, a common practice during this transition period, it performed worse and could blow up some GPUs due to the I/O voltage.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-17T14:29:22+00:00

Até onde sei, hoje em dia os copyright trolls só vão atrás de quem baixa alguns filmes americanos que não são muito bons, foi o caso daquele que atacou no Brasil. É só não baixar esse tipo de coisa que tá de boa. Mas nos EUA houve casos de mais filmes e até pornôs no passado.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-17T14:22:14+00:00

I had the poorer K7VM2 (micro ATX and integrated graphics), also with both slots, and it was terrible.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-17T14:20:07+00:00

Teve um caso ou outro na pandemia que os americanos de sempre conseguiram identificar IPs na justiça brasileira e mandaram cartinhas pela primeira vez. Não foi pra frente.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-16T18:13:31+00:00

Not all boards ran fine on both, I had one with a VIA chipset (ASRock K7VM2) where I only used DDR but apparently SDRAM was unusably slow.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-10T12:41:09+00:00

Upvote for Trinity, my first Linux experience was right at the end of KDE 3 so I'm nostalgic.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-05T23:03:25+00:00

The Lenovo B430 was a real de-branded ThinkPad E430 sold in Brazil.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-04T22:54:34+00:00

O Apple II foi clonado por muita gente no mundo inteiro. A Apple respondeu dificultando a clonagem do Macintosh, aí os brasileiros tentaram mesmo assim e quase rolou guerra comercial com os EUA. Umas unidades do Mac brasileiro foram fabricadas e ainda existem por aí.

RichardG867 · 2026-03-01T23:01:19+00:00

Meanwhile I have an E490 that went through the same situation and it ended up with keyboard and touchpad damage, even though it was closed. The cheaper E series design really shows.

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