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Sandisk WD Black SN8100 2TB SSD Review: The fastest overall consumer SSD ever made

The thing that is always painfully missing from any benchmark, is an endurance test.

I want to know how many TB I can write consecutively before the disk starts to degrade in performance and stop being useful. So far the only way I have been able to achieve this is to purchase a couple of every disk and stress them until failure, logging that interval, and selecting the winners for usage.

I do not care about how fast it can write over the course of five minutes, I want to know how fast it can write over the course of five hours continuous usage.

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How are roundabouts made?

To get a step deeper into your "how can a machine draw a circle" question. Mostly it can't. Even with an open-loop control system dragging the 'pen' at a fixed angle, you would need to have defined that curve in software somewhere, where it will be a barely-noticable set of X-Y steps, not a pure curve, otherwise you cannot be sure it would return to the origin.

Luckily, you only need a few decimals of pi to approximate that far beyond what any human eye could discern.

Break any digitally defined curve down far enough and you will see those discrete steps, but with modern technology, we just never notice it.

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The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 20.09.25

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My money is on Putin knowing that his war is not winnable, but not being able to save face internally by admitting as such. If he can poke the bear enough with incursions into NATO countries like the last few days though, he might be able to draw NATO into direct conflict, at which point a withdrawal/surrender can be sold as "We were attacked by the big bad NATO and had to consolidate our local defenses" rather than a defeat by what should have been an inferior force.

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Weird networking issue, seeking help

Do you have multiple NIC? I sporadically run into issues where traffic will try to route itself via a secondary network which has limited external access and it is resolved in a similar manner, by bringing down all networks, then re-starting them in a specific order.

Realistically I should probably define some static routes, but it works automatically 99% of the time so I never bother.

If this sounds like a possible cause, check your routes while in failed, and functional states, and set static routes as needed to resolve.

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Wireless keyboard disconnects when idle for ~2 minutes

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That answers my question. If the USB dongle never disconnects from the machine, then I wouldn't expect anything to show in dmesg, as the 'sleep mode' is likely occurring downstream of the USB dongle.

Are there any config utilities that came with it? Failing that, maybe wireshark the dongle and see if there is any sort of sleep/wake signal being passed back through to the host machine?

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How Do You Go About Buying Stuff Online While Avoiding Amazon?

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Given how terrible the amazon search functionality is, I don't see how this would work. There is an overwhelming number of products available there, so it is easy to find what you're after eventually, but in my experience, the only way to actually find a specific product is with an external search engine.

My normal search pattern goes something like: pricespy/digikey/RS/mouser > if not available, or too expensive> aliexpress > if too much to sift through > google shopping > (this is where amazon links live)

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Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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Just did a cursory read of the commits related to security for this release, and my assumpion based solely on the changes, is that it's not a remote-access vulnerability, but a supply-chain-esque vulnerability where a video you downloaded from a questionable source might trigger code embedded in the metadata to be run by jellyfin.

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"Baby on Board" is a terrible sticker for your car

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That may not be their intended purpose, but it is something we take note of when responding to an MVA. "Who else was in the vehicle" is a pretty standard question to ascertain if someone has been ejected, or is currently entrapped in the inaccessible wreckage, but if we notice a 'baby on board', we always make sure to also ask something along the lines of "where is your baby", just to be safe.