The rule with HDDs has always been that if it doesn't shit the bed within three months of installing it'll last for decades. The old tech channels I watch on Youtube routinely have hard drives from the mid-80s that still work.
I've seen this as well. I wiped some late 2000s drive and used it for a while and while it was shit in today's standard, but it kept trucking along and did it's job.
In 2000 or so I still had a Micropolis HDD that had to have been at least 20 years old at the time. It was so old it still had the thing where there was a handwritten list of bad sectors on it so you could manually block them. It was a full height drive, weighed like it was made of lead, and made a sound like a jet engine when first accessed.
suprnova.org in 2003.
My favorite was a phantom menace cam that once Darth Maul died, the whole theater cheered. And I wish I could find another copy of it.
The goodwills up here put the good shit on their fucking website. Can't ever find a monitor with HDMI nor a music player. Just a few years ago I went to the Superstore and saw like 35 Mac minis, docking stations, a fucking cellphone range extender, and all kinds of shit.
You’re right. I got these batch of old PCs from family and the side of the road. Goodwill has gone very downhill
Maybe one of those Chinese message boards with literally dozens of casino banners at the top of the page.
IMHO they don't deserve 501(c) status. They receive donations (tax deductible for the donor) and resell whatever they receive that's salable (writing off the rest themselves as "charity" when they donate it on to a scrap yard or throw it away at a landfill) not at a "reasonable thrift store price" that might befit their stated goal of "helping local communities" (by, say, selling perfectly good "gently used" products at reasonable prices), priced adequately to sustain the organization while also priced low enough to be affordable to the less fortunate members of those communities, but instead priced at "the maximum possible price someone will pay according to all available national market data."
They're fine if you space them out so you don't buy all the same batch at the same time. Losing a NAS because you bought 4 at once from one seller is painful (one died, and then the other 3 died in sequence while trying to rebuild the array).
I'm not sure what you are tryingto say. Some board game reviewer on Youtube used a clip from a torrented movie in one of his old videos? Is your issue that he never mentioned piracy in his other videos? I don't get it.
These subtitles just came out of left field. Some parts were normal, some parts were in a completely different language, and then piracy just came out of nowhere. If I hadn't turned on subtitles, piracy wouldn't have even crossed my mind. These were not the auto-generated subtitles. Someone just tossed that in there and I may very well be the only person who's seen it. Completely irrelevant to the entire video and the channel it's on.
So like really poorly done AI generated subtitles that pulled from real subtitles found online?
I think I overestimated this thread's familiarity with YouTube subtitles. I only took an interest in them when I found out you can mess around with fonts, colors, etc.
