The SSD memory cell failure mode is to retain the last written contents, so I actually don’t think I agree. In the SMART diagnostics, it shows how many of these bad cells are present, which is a reasonable indicator of impending failure from age

Ah yes, inovation. And by innovation, I mean buying the entire manufacuring capability so your competitors can’t use it

You’re gonna have to explain this one better

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks, especially in a laptop that gets banged around. HDDs win in only one category: capacity per price.

Was it once a joke?

It’s a config flag in /etc/fstab

I’m not sure I totally get it, what happened?

Yeah literally, what is this post even saying

Sometimes it’s okay to use something you’re familiar with and not have to learn (Debian). Fair enough on the snaps though; need to look into them before I form an opinion.

Why away from Ubuntu/Debian?

Clonezilla is the way

Surprised it’s not enableby default

What’d Tim do again?

Common story, very funny though. I’m actually working at a SaaS vendor I used to use, and their search was unusable. I finally got to fix it and am very happy about it

Dreaded refactorings

What’s a PWA?