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> A user may make a typo in the email, and that email might still be a valid email know to work (but for another, unrelated person). That won't verify. The issuer should check if t…

5W while browsing is already less efficiënt than my old laptop with a Zen 2 CPU (and most of the power is consumed by the display). Newer CPU's or SoC's should do quite a bit bette…

Asrock Rack and Supermico sell AM4/AM5 motherboards with support for ECC UDIMMs. Other vendors might state official support on workstation-class motherboards, and in general it mig…

Most SSD's will provide metrics that are quite readable for estimating the lifetime left for the drive. Most nvme-drive expose a line with 'Percentage used' in the nvme log (just u…

> Both Intel and AMD are providing huge efficiency gains, too. Rumors show the new i7 13700T Raptor Lake part can have a 35W mobile TDP and still outperform a Ryzen 7 5800X: https:…

Toshiba was not merged in to HGST, and is still an independent manufacturer.

At least hard drives still have decent seek times. Load time optimization for consoles with optical drives was another league: a single seek across the disk could lead to waiting a…

Battery life depends a lot on which laptop you buy. With an old Elitebook Revolve with an Intel 5200U and a new Envy X360 with an AMD 4700U the battery life on Linux is about the s…

The large Toshiba drives they're using are enterprise drives. A couple of weeks ago these drives were among the cheapest (€/TB) drives to get here in the Netherlands, so I assume B…

> Cross-Platform - You can reliably stay up-to-date on discord from basically every device you own with reliable notifications Until there's a client update. When the client detect…

This is a case where you should read with care, and notice the difference between Gb and GB. The chip from 2013 that you mention, has a capacity of 8Gb = 1GB. Chips with a capacity…

Resilvering on ZFS in not linear, it is quite some random IO. A ST8000DM004 is capable of linear reads above 200MB/s, and a normal drive should be able to handle the same speeds wi…

You can get a Tyan Tomcat EX or one of the ASRock Rack AM4 boards that have an Aspeed AST2500 chip to provide remote management. However, it might be difficult (and expensive) to g…