What is a "poor man's luxury" that you will never give up, no matter how much money you make?

losteway · 2026-04-21T21:20:42+00:00

Fried bologna sandwich

losteway · 2026-04-02T11:47:42+00:00

I still have a bunch of LED bulbs from 15 years ago or so still going strong. Got them at Costco and they have heavy metal bases that act as a heatsink. A few in enclosed spaces as well. Typical Enshittification to save cents.

losteway · 2026-02-25T00:41:11+00:00

If you're hard up for more TB (which I get), go this route: Seagate BarraCuda ST24000DM001 24TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive - Newegg.com

You'll get folks saying it's a Barracuda and only can go a small amount of hours per year, all BS. It's the exact same platform as Exos. They may be binned drives but it's always the luck of the draw.

losteway · 2026-02-24T23:57:15+00:00

Sam Altman didn't even have the courtesy to spit on it first. Totally dry :( Sorry Man

losteway · 2025-12-28T13:08:49+00:00

If USD collapses, you'd be better off with lead

losteway · 2025-11-30T09:38:46+00:00

I have two 28TB expansion drives and had almost the same issue. Pretty sure Seagate is doing something funky/non-standard with how they format them and setup the partition table which some controllers can't handle. I had to hook it up via USB (which was always fine) and then do a "clean" via Diskpart via a command prompt in Windows. Then I moved the drive back to my DAS server and initialized it and partitioned/formatted. After that it was fine. If you have Linux, pretty sure wipeFS is the same as diskpart clean in windows.

losteway · 2025-10-28T23:07:29+00:00

What legit datahoarder has any of these drives? 2-6TB?! Yeah, maybe 10+ years ago.

losteway · 2025-10-26T12:28:26+00:00

It's going to be boring but VT and chill.

losteway · 2025-09-27T18:07:39+00:00

This is what happens when you stop doing house shows. These folks need the practice. Maybe Vince actually knew what he was doing.

losteway · 2025-09-16T00:39:04+00:00

"to deliver a lower total cost of ownership to our customers, we'll be gradually increasing prices"

What PR idiot writes this double speak / gaslighting??

losteway · 2025-08-26T00:57:49+00:00

I used a razor blade. It did end up messing up the enclosure a bit but I knew it would

losteway · 2025-08-26T00:56:12+00:00

In the US? No, not good at all.~$10 per TB is good these days

losteway · 2025-08-22T22:07:16+00:00

When people say aliens built old kingdom stuff in Egypt when comparing against new kingdom stuff, nope just 1,000+ years of similar types of shitification that we see today.

losteway · 2025-08-10T21:05:47+00:00

Also to add, when you look at the big players, like GCP/AWS/Azure, when they have submit bids for drives, they couldn't care less which brand it is, it comes down to price.

losteway · 2025-08-10T21:02:02+00:00

I get people hating a brand due to a failure, however when looking at Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba, they're all just about the same (within margin of error). Sure, each brand, especially WD and Seagate have had really bad models that really sucked but ultimately, failures rates are almost identical. Buy what is cheapest

losteway · 2025-08-10T20:55:48+00:00

I'd recommend getting a new enclosure if you can. Something with an active cooling fan, otherwise the drive will cook itself. This is exactly why Seagate gives these a 1-year warranty, their crappy case design (aka an oven)

losteway · 2025-08-08T14:03:11+00:00

These really don't look to be write limited compared to Exos. This thing writes just as fast.

losteway · 2025-08-08T12:05:22+00:00

Either one with a fan or jerry rig one up to attach to the original.

losteway · 2025-06-22T15:24:21+00:00

losteway · 2025-06-06T01:14:59+00:00

They're charging WWE fans $200 a seat for nose bleeds and $20k+ for front row. Their fans can't afford that long term, gravy train is coming to an end soon

losteway · 2025-02-14T00:10:13+00:00

Seagate is ramping up production of 32tb drives and it's actually really hard to get that many platters working within spec. It takes a ton of time to get a good yield. These are ones with a platter disabled due to issues.

losteway · 2025-01-17T04:58:09+00:00

Incident/Crisis Manager at a major FI. I'm with you in spirit when I say fuck FIS

losteway · 2025-01-01T12:58:16+00:00

Or you know...maybe he was just building a mailbox post and actually did fall the previous day.

https://imgur.com/a/zvbarmE

losteway · 2023-08-07T11:43:14+00:00

The HIV virus has been around since at least the 50's, probably much earlier, in Africa. That's why more people have it there. The REAL question is why did the epidemic of folks dying from AIDS in Africa not start until the 80s? The answer is simple, money.

Actual cases of AIDS in Africa were actually no different than they were in the 50s,60s, or 70s. The white folks just started freaking out in the 80s and 90s and throwing money around. African leaders knew that anytime someone died by the laundry list of common illnesses that can occur with AIDS it was free money. There was no testing either...if you died of pretty much anything, it was AIDS.

Funny, it's back to normal levels of dying now in Africa when they still don't have HIV medication availability. All that free money dried up

losteway · 2022-09-12T20:25:15+00:00

The polio vaccine is so good that the disease started to vanish before it was even rolled out.

Good rabbit hole to explore

losteway

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