If the drive isn’t working and the data is important, stop powering it on and store it somewhere safe until you decide what to do.

As long as it was new when you did.

Since I buy used enterprise drives, I suppose nothing is off the table.

Oh wait! No used thermal paste tubes.

It’s bad enough we have to trust VPN server code; but at least that should be the only thing you have to trust public facing.

So the glass back. Is this completely a pathetic choice over aluminum back or does it serve a utility purpose like cell signals?

Given the option I’d buy a normal aluminum back option if I wanted to be caseless.

Why didn’t google make a iMessage of their own, was it too patented? They have billions more customers on Android than Apple, which is also billions, but less billions.

Bitwarden is 100% worth the $10 a year. And is independant of my selfhosting dickery.

Plex and a VPN are a lot cheaper than streaming services these days.

And I fucking hate locked firmware! Did we just become friends?

If I have no personal connection to the building, is it a house lab?

But can it pull off the most impressive feat of all. Shipping with 16GB RAM standard.

When the power goes out.

Maybe if it had ads, but the real crime is the 5GB of cloud backup storage without paying more.

Hmm. I should try that stuff out on the integrated Linux thing windows has… never have for backups for cloning.

Really? It’s used/suggested here all the time. And I’m a windows guy.

I think up to 5 is reasonable.