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It is quite possible to get tinnitus with low frequency exposure. I got mine from exposure to loud music while using earplugs that basically had no attenuation on low freq. Leaving…

Sure, but rewriting software in order to access books is a lot of extra work. I just store the VM containing the necessary tools and make sure it still executes in the new HW+os wh…

Need to store virtual machines with both the operating system and the reader/converter software included. There are lots of bits that can rot...

My shelf is full of scifi/fantasy paperbacks from 80s to late 90s. A lot of these have their binding already broken. This happens especially to small (cheap) format books of more t…

These days you also have ceramic capacitors that exhibit this same behaviour. Some physically small but high capacitance caps are acoustic noise sources.

Might have a problem with fire resistance.

I'd guess that at Yandex they did not believe Russian leaders to make a mistake this bad. They were as surprised by the open attack as the western companies that lost their investm…

Maybe it is a question of money or actually currency. Here in Finland electricity is paid for with euros. Good luck for Yandex trying to find a supplier in Finland willing to accep…