Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren’t buying a piece of software, you’re buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

“company wants to hire person” isn’t exactly news, is it?

As a drinker of both, I’ll have you know coffee a baked bean beverage, thank you very much.

I feel it necessary to make an important point here: there is a reason flash is dead. It’s horrible insecure. Fortunately the interest base for this kind of thing is fairly small, because someone with ill intent would not have a hard time providing a malicious swf and gain access to your system.

Now maybe - hopefully - the steam deck makes good use of various sandboxing technologies, but I’d recommend proceeding with care anyway.

…ask Turing? Who suggested that? The Turing test is not “let’s ask Alan” 😋

Several of those thoughts have absolutely zero to do with AI, though. Well, none of them, because it’s ml, not ai, but that’s a different battle.

Then it is long obsolete, because to a common observer, something like chatgpt could easily pass that test if it wasn’t instructed to clarify it is a machine at every turn.

This particular photo is shopped, but i think false-perspective Illusions might actually be a good path…

The Turing test is about whether it passes as human, not whether it is human.

Shouldn’t have not pooped for three days.

Gilbert Grape?

That’s a matter of preference - off pizza i prefer green ones!

Also, for this, strangely enough it works better with the sliced ones than the whole ones. They’re a bit saltier. Like me 😋

Try pepperoni and black olives, that’s also pretty good.

Suçuk/mushroom is wonderful!

That’s very interesting, thanks!

So, basically, the US is very upset that the money they give is being used… The solution seems obvious…

We truly love in interesting times. Fuck, I wish we didn’t.

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I mean, of course it doesn’t. All the pic abused are being sold as calamari.

You go for the bass. Me, I’m thinking Hallelujah, the Buckley cover.