What? Since when? I've watched TSA confiscate a toy lightsaber from some kid's backpack, why the heck would an actual knife be allowed?
I wouldn't be so sure about the lifetime - spinning up and spinning down put far more stress on the drive components than simply spinning at a constant rate.
In what way is that advertising? And what is the product?
...how is smoking supposed to be connected to race? In any way?
I would say the vast majority of people (across all generations) either don't know, or don't really understand how extensive it (the monitoring) is and what the consequences of that are.
+1 for Debian, if you just want a stable, reliable system and don't care about the latest and greatest features there is no better choice
You can, but it'll be a pretty one-sided conversation
That is very slow, unless the drive is connected over USB or failing or something, a drive of that capacity should easily be able to handle sequential writes much faster than that. How is the drive connected, and is it SMR?
I don't see anywhere close to the same amount of political memes on generic meme communities anywhere else i frequent on the internet. Lemmy feels like it consists almost exclusively of political memes.
I guess i wouldn't mind so much if they were actually funny, but they aren't. They're mostly just "haha those people dumb" with zero effort to be funny or clever or anything which could make them interesting after having seen the first 3 or 4 of them.
bedrock edition (for phones/tablets/consoles/windows 10 store) does
Based on anecdotal evidence, "I refuse" may be more common than you think. I live in Switzerland, and out of all the expats I know who have been here a long time (20+ years), a large percentage (over half) of them still can't speak German. At all. Like, they can maybe say "thank you" but that's about the extent of their vocabulary, and many of them actually seem to be quite proud of the fact that they've made absolutely zero attempt to integrate into the local community or culture.
Now, although I'm fully aware that there are a hell of a lot of differences between Switzerland and the US, it still wouldn't be at all surprising to me if there were large groups of immigrants in the US who similarly resist learning English.