My husband says that they follow a “bathtub” curve and they either die in the first 60 days or last about 2 years when they are scheduled to be replaced.
Further he says enterprise drives stopped having ECC in 2008; so they stopped having any reason to trust them more.
Yeah but S3 egress fees are a kick in the face if you need to recover.
Wasabi is also an option
Technically you can buy a 10TB Seagate EXOS for $114; so you could buy the disk storage even more frequently if you wanted.
But if you don’t want to host your own storage, you will have to pay the hosting company’s building rent, taxes, salaries for their staff and their executives bonuses.
Or you can build a Machine that is at a friend’s house and pay only the hardware costs and benefit your friend. You know, building community…
The question of how much Data produces different recommendations. For example if over 5TB rsync.net
You don’t need a cellphone plan, just a cellular data plan (say prepaid 1-2Gb) and you just keep cellular data switched off unless it is an emergency.
Then you can still “WiFi call” in an emergency over that cellular data connection.
No monthly plan required
Don’t have any games that require those. So never ran into that problem. But I can imagine there are potential games/apps people would want that can’t run on Linux. Windows VMs might be a solution but I don’t know as I never had to deal with that.
Steam, wine and dosbox with them, you can effectively play any game worth playing. Beyond that I never needed to know.
Not every version of chmod supports that and you really don’t want your media files to be executable
Well sudo find ${path} -type d exec chmod 750 {}; to fix the folders first Then sudo find ${path} -type f exec chmod 640 {}; to fix the files
After that sudo chown -Rv my user:media ${path} and everything should be sorted
Unfortunately the XSettings freedesktop spec is trash and hasn’t been released let alone revised since 2001
Who needs more than 8GB disk space for a Debian computer with Firefox and Chrome?
Yeah, we don’t trust their warranties; the manufacturers have repeatedly failed to honor their obligations even when drives die well within the manufacturer warranty.
Also they have become crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk