Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you’d have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.
It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.
It was only beyond gig that you’d need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don’t do it).
High quality cat 5e would have done the job.
Original cables must have been faulty.
Some how I automatically read this in Greta Thungerg’s voice.
How dare you!
Shit yeah. Big boobs are ok to look at but those small super subtle precision curves… I just want to explore them, see where they lead on all sides. Kinda hard to explain but small is soooo much better.
Why sell for so little? To make a point? If so then sell for the highest amount you can get then donate that to Ukraine.
I don’t think planned obsolescence has a time line.
It’s more to do with the manufacturer making a decision to pull support.
Windows 11 is pulling the same stunt.
Linux distros however have no such problem.
Apple should have more than just an arbitrary reason to drop support.
All of this skills the point. This is a second drive that failed, it was the replacement for an earlier drive that failed.
That’s what the article is all about.
A high, unexpected and unreasonable failure rate.
This is fantastic!
My pending or existing projects.
A software defined radio server. Lives up top of an antenna mast running off PoE with an RTL tuner connected.
ADSB receiver, similar to above, but on a fixed frequency.
The above 2 could be virtualised in theory, but there is an advantage in having the cable to the antenna short and thus the sbcs live up antenna masts in an enclosure.
MMDVM hotspot for ham radio (this might not count as it HAS TO use the gpio pins on the pi, this can’t be visualised even with a USB port passed through.
As an audio server that would bitstream 24bit/96kHz to an amp.
Great… Signal is imperfect.
Can you suggest a perfect alternative?
At this point I’m just happy my family have tolerated it to the point we’re not using Facebook Messenger, Google chat (it whatever it’s called this month) and WhatsApp.
The xmpp or whatever other convoluted alternative you’re about to recommend is not something I’m going to get 20 or 30 family and friends to switch to.
Signal is imperfect… But not as bad as many other options.