The fire risk can be reduced by using safer battery types like sodium ion and LiFePO4.

That’s been known for a long time. What we don’t know is what reduced gravity will do. We really need a space station that can simulate martian and lunar gravity.

It probably just needs the drives to use a format with unix file permissions. I have a mix of ext4 and btrfs and Steam has never had issues with that.

That’s what happens when you have a 25 year old protocol and try to maintain backwards compatibility through all of the versions.

Uncompressed 16 bit 48KHz stereo is 1536 kbps, which is just slightly higher than what bluetooth 5 is capable of.

There are 24 function keys on the IBM 122 key layout.

Solid state drives are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Hard drives can retain data for decades, but there’s a good chance they will not spin up after sitting for years.

Optical is the only affordable option for long term, offline backups. Tape is too expensive for consumer use unless you have a huge amount of data to backup.

The VGA port does have a 5V pin, but I wouldn’t suggest trying to charge a phone from it. It’s probably not intended to supply much current.

Luckily, there are other ways of watching their content without having to pay them.

This is nothing new. Boards like these have been around for nearly as long as m.2 drives.

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

The speed usually increases with capacity, but this drive uses HAMR instead of CMR, so it will be interesting to see what effect that has on the speed. The fastest HDDs available now can max out SATA 3 on sequential transfers, but they use dual actuators.

You can’t get SSDs that big except for some extremely expensive enterprise drives.

Graphics cards are getting so big that they need their own case. 4 slots takes up the whole motherboard.

Just keep in mind that you can’t wipe the bad sectors that have been remapped. That’s unlikely to be an issue for a personal drive, but something to consider if it held particularly sensitive information.

The people that own them will definitely notice if they start making features require a subscription or deciding that you can’t print certain objects.

I was worried that Bambu would try to pull the same crap that Dymo did with their label printers.

I’m very glad I didn’t buy one of their printers. The RFID tag thing was enough to keep me from buying anything from them. This is even worse.

Video hosting is too expensive for a platform that’s not run by a big company.

Aaand… IPv6 is great. But unfortunately the way things are now means that giving everything on your network a publicly routable IPv6 address is a very bad idea.

A publicly routable IPv6 address doesn’t mean publicly accessible unless you specifically open a port in the firewall. IPv6 privacy extensions, which basically everything uses now, means than the address changes frequently so individual devices can’t be tracked by their IP address.