RIP Thread

RIP Chabelo. He died at 88.
The meme was that Chabelo had such a long and prolific career, he outlived everything and everyone.

Not anymore, it seems. QEPD.
 
This is kinda late, but Harry Whittington, whom Dick Cheney shot in a "hunting accident" in 2006, died in early February, a scant month shy of 96.

That much of suck getting shot by the vice president and being force to apologize for getting shoted on live television. And to live with being known as that guy for the rest of your life.
 
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so I went on Amazon and saw they were selling 1 TB flash drives for $25 and my mind was blown.
Those are chinesium fakes. They typically have 32GB of real flash on them and a controller chip that's been hacked to lie about its real capacity to the host. The host "sees" 1TB and will cheerfully write to it, expecting it to be valid. But the moment you write beyond the 32GB of real flash space, the hacked controller just "loops back around" and starts from 0 again, overwriting whatever got written earlier. Since it's the drive itself faking its capacity, this immediately destroys the filesystem on it (since its metadata structures, superblocks, etc. get overwritten). Needless to say, you lose the data you were writing there.

Real 1TB flash drives (and SD/micro SD cards) are still over $50-ish. Top-tier (i.e. Samsung) are higher than that, though you get what you pay for (Samsungs tend to last longer). That's still incredible though. A terabyte of storage in something smaller than my thumbnail, for less than a C-bill. Amazing shit.
 
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