Noteworthy is their complete lack of acknowledgement that none of the services provided by these people they're whining about are actually illegal. Fucking pricks.
>4chan screenshot
i.e. "we want another crack at mandatory digital ID and a mandatory outlawing of anonymity."
Yeah baby. Don’t be a fag about it!
I generally agree with this, but I think the biggest motivator for me to pirate is that you don't actually own anything you stream. With Netflix etc. you can open it up one day to re-watch your favourite movie and now it's either moved to another streaming service that you have to pay for or completely unavailable, and this is all licensing stuff that's not completely in the control of the streaming providers. Meanwhile when I pirate the file is mine, resides on my hardware, and I can use it how I please whenever I please forever
That's what got me into piracy. I wanted to rewatch an old show i liked only to find out netflix had completely removed it
Not really pirating if He is the one whom God made everything through.
This is not entirely true because of the bathtub curve which states products fail in one of three ways: production defects causing failures rather quickly, random failures in the middle of its lifespan and degradation failures at the end; as expected, the first and last are much more common then the second. HDDs follow this failure model, therefore, a good source of refurbished HDDs can yield longer lifespans than new HDDs because the refurbishment process effectively acts as another layer of quality control avoiding defective drives and the first failure mode.
How do you even refurbish an HDD?
I knew someone who did something vaguely like this. They had enough busted hard drives from common varieties like WD that they would collect parts, basically the controller cards and the actual drives, and swap them out. The cards failed much less often (usually it was the actual drive that failed) so only a fraction could easily be saved, but he made out pretty good on those.
Idk, but my pessimistic mind thinks most of the time there's no real refurbishment and the drives are just used functional drives that are thoroughly tested.
It was bought by Western Digital and their enterprise lineup became the Ultrastar series and indeed, they are one of the most reliable HDDs in the market according to Backblaze data.
This is so true. I almost stopped pirating TV and movies entirely in the early 2010s, because Netflix was cheap and had a lot of stuff I wanted to watch.
i always found the term homelabe pretentious as fuck. you have to really like sniffing your own farts if you call messing around with computer shit at home. homelab
