AnonStoleMyPants

The rant in the post has some merit to it, but the thing it sort of misses is also the reason not to use VM. It works just fine. It hasn't been updated in 20 years because it still works. It does what it says on the box. Why put it in a VM? What would you gain from it? If you need Internet just grab a laptop and have it sit next to the main computer. That way users have a much smaller chance to break something vital. Pretty much all the control computers are air gapped anyway. No updates or anything to break things you reeeeally don't want to break.

The only case I've seen VMs being used is if the old computer breakes and you can't really find something that's compatible with old-as-fuck software om bare metal. I work in a cleanroom and we got sooo many systems that are windows 95 or older (DOS anyone?). Electron microscope, etching systems, probe stations

Thanks, maybe there is something there for pvp then.

This is interesting but issue with Perovskites is not efficiency per say, but it is degradation. It is a cool tech but their lifetime is measured in months and not decades. Here's one study for instance. Perovskites might be where the tech is going but there are still major hurdles to overcome.

The materials that do the absorption are not effective across the entire wavelength spectrum of the sun. They can only absorb at a certain wavelength range, but the spectrum range of the sun is very wide.

Edit. Also other reasons, like recombination rate where the photon hitting the panel generates an electron-hole pair which is then collected and used for evegy, but electrons and holes tend to want to recombine, after which we cannot use them for evergy. We want this rate to be zero, but it never is, it is a probabilistic process. So even if you can absorb everything, you can't utilise everything you absorb.

Yeah I'm aware of gw, just wondering about ffxiv. I always got the idea in my head that pvp doesn't really exist in that game, hence the question.

How's the pvp in ffxiv?

True but there is a massive difference between a loyal customer and an addicted customer.

Good luck!

Don't sweat it.

I remember looking into this as well like a year ago. I also found the same info and started to look into ssds, consumer and enterprise grade and after all that I realised that most of it is just useless fuzzing about. Yes it is an interesting rabbit hole in which I spent a week probably. In the end one simple thing nullifies most of this: you can track writes per day and SSD health. It is not like you need to somehow made a guess when the drives fail. You do not. Keep track of the health and writes per day and you will get a good sense of how your system behaves. Run that for 6 months and you are infinitely wiser when it comes to this stuff.

I'm confused. The article states that the monthly feed is to remove ad targeting, which I assume means no ads. It does NOT say that they won't collect data on you, just literally that they won't use the data they collect to give you ads.

So this has nothing to do with opting out of data collection, just opting out of ads? That's the feeling I get from the article.

Edit. Well I guess I'm not confused, this is also the wording the Meta's post uses and definitely says nothing about opting out of data collection.

Could you just not include home in the automatic snapshots?

Okay good! Yes the @ seems to be more common and necessary for Timeshift, but I think I'll just keep this and use Snapper or something.