The TLC NAND chips used in most commodity memory cards these days are only good for something like 1500 write cycles per cell before they are prone to wearing out and coming back with errors. The difference between a dedicated SSD and a dinky memory card is partially the amount of extra space reserved for relocating data as the memory cells wear out, of which a consumer MicroSD card typically has little (on expensive ones) or none (on cheap ones).

I’ve heard it said, or rather seen it written, that some TLC NAND can endure “up to” as many as 3000 write cycles, but everyone is cagey about the true number and most consumer grade card vendors are tight-lipped about what kind of chips are actually in their products. So in other words, if you’re just scarfing a cheap card off of Amazon or from Microcenter or whatever, don’t expect ironclad longevity.

The one thing with flash storage writes that’ll bite you and it’ll bite you fast is logging. Unix-like systems love to incessantly write little one line additions to oodles and oodles of log files all the time, and if you want to extend your poor overworked little SD card’s lifespan you can dabble in turning some of that stuff off, once you’re positive you don’t need it for troubleshooting.

There also exist high reliability cards sold for industrial embedded applications, which will use lower capacity SLC but be able to endure upwards of 100,000 write cycles (per the marketing literature, at least). Expect capacities to realistically top out at about 64 gigs and for a single unit at that capacity expect to pay north of $100 for the privilege. It may be more appealing to use an NVME SSD at that rate and connect it with USB adapter or a hat.

Posted directly, no. Not anymore, anyway; there was a bright and shiny albeit very short period early in .world’s days when you could upload a video instead of an image and it would take it and work. I imagine the admins disabled this for obvious reasons.

You can still post an animated .gif, though. I do it all the time.

Pro or Enterprise? Or even better, Enterprise IoT LSTC? The latter is going to get security updates until 2032.

And those enrolled ($61) in the Extended Security Updates program get one more year of security support (not feature updates), and the various Enterprise versions will continue to get updates for up to another seven years, depending on the version.

Microsoft didn’t stop updating Windows 10 and they won’t for quite some time. They’re simply no longer offering those updates to most users of the consumer versions of Windows.

Windows Update can also hand you updates to your drivers independent of the support status of your copy of Windows. For instance, if you install a copy of Windows 7 even today it will still pull driver files from Microsoft.

Nobody is ever actually shot while “cleaning” their gun. Unloading it is step 1 in this procedure for basically every firearm ever made, and that assessment stretches back several hundred years by now.

This is just a culturally ingrained lame excuse people pathologically fall back on thinking they’re going to save face over capping their own damn selves with an easily avoidable negligent discharge. And everyone who tries it inevitably thinks they’re the first person to think of it, because they’re stupid.

Hey! I will have you know, mine also involves copious amounts of knives, duct tape, and drywall joint compound.

I write really long posts and I’ve said “delve” exactly four times in my Lemmy career. I know this because I just checked.

I’m like 99.8%, maybe 99.9% certain I’m not an AI.

Even outside of scripting and so forth, which I use a lot, often it’s far easier and faster to just cook up a wildcard string or a regex or whatever when you’re faced with a folder with eleventy bazillion files in it, only some of which you’d like to move somewhere else.

Yes, you could point-and-click on all of those for the next hour and a half plucking them all out of your file browser window. Me personally, I’d really rather not.

Other similar use cases abound.

Well, two things about that.

One, the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun is further out than the orbit of the moon. Even without doing any math, just a cursory observation of how shadows work will illustrate that, given that the moon itself can just barely cover the disc of the sun from where it is, any such object placed there would need to have a diameter larger than that of the moon in order to completely block the sun’s light. Or some appreciable and nontrivial fraction of the diameter of the moon if you only want to block part of the sun’s light. Lofting something that massive up there and more importantly keeping it there given that it’d also be well within the gravitational influence of the moon would be quite the challenge. (“Quite the challenge,” by the way, is rocket scientist talk for, “This is complete science fiction, and whoever suggested it is insane.”)

Point two is that the Deep Space Climate Observatory is currently already parked there.

Emphasis on “tiny” adjustments, per the article. I don’t think Elmo comprehends just how much surface area is going to be required to make any measurable let alone meaningful impact, nor the cost of hefting all of that mass up there and keeping it there.

This whole crackhead idea is completely infeasible. But he probably hopes it’ll help him scam the government out of a bunch of money trying (and failing), while wasting vast amounts of rocket fuel.

That’s the real deal, right here.

The SNES vs. Genesis war from the 1990s never really ended. The banners being flown have changed over the years but the battles are pretty much the same. Me personally, what with having the luxury of being a perfectly responsible fully grown adult — that’s what it says on my driver’s license, anyway — I have at least one example of pretty much every console from the Atari VCS up to the PS3.

My beef with consoles now is that they’re all, with the exception of the Switch and its sequel, just watered down PC hardware anyway. That’s really not interesting, and I already have a PC. And by and large my PC plays what I tell it to, not what Sony and Microsoft and for fuck’s sake not what Nintendo try to dictate at me. Thus, for modern games I play on PC.

As far as insufferable computer users go, that all started with Doom. Doom was the killer app of the 90s and every console maker at the time either wished theirs could run Doom but it couldn’t, or barely managed it and the experience was dogshit. Before that, it was the opposite: PC games and their developers fervently wished they could match the capabilities of the game consoles of their era, which all had specialized hardware specifically designed for the types of things games from that time did. It’s probably no coincidence that id software’s formative outing started with John Carmack and Tom Hall’s Dangerous Dave In Copyright Infringement, which as dumb as it sounds was genuinely showing off at the time in that they managed to make a bog standard PC pull off a platformer with smooth(ish) scrolling, which is something the NES can do in its sleep.

Another in a long line of messing with user interface things on updates, without any prior warning to the user. And if you even get a changelog at all on the update prompt it’s always just vague bullshit like, “Bug fixes and usability improvements,” without explaining what those “improvements” are supposed to be.

In unrelated news, the last major update on my Moto G changed the incoming call screen from swipe up to answer, swipe down to reject to swipe left to answer, swipe right to reject. What is this, fucking Tinder now? And don’t come at me about the “gesture” setting in the dialer app options, either. Yes, I am aware of it. The only options listed there are now “horizontal swipe” and “single tap to answer.” Why any rational individual would want to inflict the hell that is the latter option on themselves is unknown to me.

This kind of horseshit is why boomers and old people are terrified of updates and drive us IT nerds up the wall by perpetually ignoring and dismissing them. Because when you change the user interface choices people are used to behind their backs and without warning, as far as they’re concerned you just broke their device.

Cut it out.

I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.

My principal saw Schrade Switch-It clipped to my pants and thought it was a pager, and sternly admonished me not to bring my “pager” to school anymore.

Righty-o, man, no pager, I told him. No problem.

What a toolbox.

Definitely orange.

No, I’m wrong. It’s the Mid-Atlantic ridge.

And we gained a pretty damn good idea during World War 2 and the Cold War when we were trying to map parts of the ocean floor for submarine warfare purposes, and discovered the mid ocean fault points. Especially the true extent of the Mariana Trench, Mid-Atlantic Ridge which is spang in the middle of the Atlantic between the jigsaw puzzle coastlines of Africa and South America.

Needless to say we weren’t to keen to blab to our enemies just how much we knew about the seafloor, and neither were they. What with submarine warfare being a Big Deal in the Cold War, and all.

Edit to add some additional detail now that I’m not pecking on my phone: Alfred Wegener proposed his almost-modern theory of continental drift in 1912, as well as the hypothesis of Pangea, the prehistoric supercontinent from the time when all the current major landmasses were together. You’re right that there was not a solid explanation for the mechanism by which this proposed action ought to occur. But even by the 1940s scientists were proposing that continental drift happened by way of the continents floating on convection currents of magma underneath and predicted there would be expansion joints in between them in the middle of the oceans.

Consider the IoT Enterprise LTSC builds. These come premade from Microsoft with less bloat (or none, in the case of the Win10 IoT version), and don’t shove the consumer features down your throat on every update because they’re designed for mission critical embedded applications.

I have 10 IoT LTSC running on most of our machines at work because a significant chunk of our hardware is not Windows 11 “ready” and we use many vendor-specific things that don’t work in Linux or Wine, and I use 11 IoT LTSC at home (locked to 23H2 so my Mixed Reality VR headset remains working!) without incident.

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Without either of the above restrictions if I were you I would shop for a new mouse.

As far as video games go, an obvious answer is the Sims.

Perhaps only slightly less prominent is Shadow of the Colossus. Insofar as I know all of the spoken dialog is a nonsense fictional dialect that definitely isn’t Japanese, except possibly when calling your horse’s name. The language is based off of syllables and random bits from both Japanese and Latin with some of the syllables being spoken backwards, and with a kinda-sorta Japanese style cadence. But it’s utter gibberish, and only the subtitles make it intelligible.

Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though. Alexandrite makes their username bright green an bold, for instance.

I wonder what portion of users are turned off by stepping into a community and discovering that basically every post is from its only moderator, and thus feel that whatever-it-is is probably just that individual’s personal hobby horse.

Not that I’d know, or anything…

Every rain fly on pretty much every modern tent has multiple zippers. Full coverage flies (flys?) are now the norm and these require some way to open them in order to let you in and out of the tent, which is inevitably a zipper. Even before this in the canvas tent era, closures may have been done with buttons rather than zippers but the opening points still had fold-over flaps to keep rainwater out, similar in construction to the ones on your pants.

I’ve only ever owned one tent in my life that did not have a full coverage fly and thus did not require any hardware on the fly itself. It still had folded over gusset flaps on it in various places, and that tent was also crap and was not designed to withstand weather.

If you are making your own “fly” out of a tarp or similar, that’s different.