God, I hope not...
I swear, Paramount must've hired all of the old Nickelodeon staff or something. What's next, a Strange New Worlds and Sabrina: The Teenage Witch cross-over?
(I'd honestly prefer a Pete & Pete cross-over if that's an option. Where they have to use Petunia as an intermediary for a race that only communicates through tattoos. That or Doug.)
This is actually really cool. I would check it out next time I'm out traveling. But I can't seem to find whether they're open to the public or do tours or not. No observatory or restaurant on the top floor either, that I can find.
Guess it's time to start "looking at office space" in the Tulsa area :P
Sounds like you got very-unlucky with WD then just regular-lucky with Seagate :P
A good way to think of "quality" in terms of how the manufacturing industry uses the term: Even if Seagate has a 2-4% failure rate (which they do, see my other comment) that still means 96-98% of their drives are just fine (and you probably fall in this group, which is great). But in terms of modern manufacturing, your failure/return rate should be ~1% or less. Otherwise you're just throwing money away, not only on the RMAs, but also all the wasted time/money on manufacturing/disposing of all of those failed drives. So it's a potential 2-3 fold loss (so 4-12% in their case) in revenue. That's not a very good business strategy.
Not to mention you're dealing with millions of drives and customers. Which leads to hundreds/thousands of people voicing their frustrations publicly and you developing a bad reputation. Again, they've done it to themselves.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/ (they also do quarterly reports, but I prefer annual reports for the larger sample sizes)
Scroll down to the chart for failure rates by manufacture. Seagate literally has 2-3 times the failure rate of all other manufactures. Maybe 1-2 quarters aren't, but even then they're still noticeably higher.
Edit: Just noticed HGST did horribly last year and Toshiba is actually looking pretty damn good now. Might have to give them a try sometime.
I do wonder if they will ever be able to beat their $14.9 B annual record.
I doubt it. Everybody knows their drives are less reliable, even compared to Toshiba sometimes. So anyone with any sense is buying WD ~~or HGST (they're the same company now, I know).~~
They've let themselves become known as the Wish.com of storage. Should have stopped skimping on quality 15-20 years ago... then maybe...
Edit: HGST is apparently trash now and Toshiba is really good.
My new phone (Galaxy A16) keeps nagging me to update, despite having the notifications for them turned off. Samsung just forces it on you any ways, at least 1-2 times a day.
And guess why I was avoiding updating? Because of shit just like this... and there being no solid root method for the 2025 model (last I checked). So I definitely made the right call there.
This always reminds me of the Gavin Belson Signature Box III from Silicon Valley.
Notice how the Cisco logo is just left of the button. So I like to imagine some Gavin Belson type executive demanded the logo be put there at the last minute. Probably marketing, it's always marketing.
Oh no doubt. They're just baiting a response so they can play the victim again.
She no doubt tops the efficiency charts on Free Slurpee Day.
Because they don't need one. They just send a polite email asking for everything on Person X and they get an email back with EVERYTHING that person's ever done on any of Google's services.
Problem solved. No Backdoor or Warrant needed.
Being on the ground, they're a lot closer to the GPS receivers and basically overpower the real signal that has to come all the way from space. Satellites also have to very careful with their power use, so counter-jamming that method would be almost impossible.
You could install your own ground stations, but then it becomes a game of who has more electricity to burn.
Edit: Better antennas can help, but get very expensive very fast. Since they're really just adding more and more and more antennas.
I couldn't stand Discovery at all. All of the crying and emotional break-downs ruined it for me. It felt like watching a high school drama where the whole being in space part was just a backdrop. (13 Reasons Why: In Space!)
SNW feels like it's trying to do the opposite by being quirky and just taking it too far. A high school rom-com rather than a full blown drama, if you will. (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: With Aliens!)
As someone who's been watching Trek for 40+ years. These new shows just don't feel like Star Trek anymore. The franchise has been co-opted into... something else.