the "whatever that might be" in that context meant "the machine dependent format could be anything, and it wouldn't matter for B"

I see you're not working in any industry having to deal with Qualcomm.

JBOD relies on an optional SATA extension, which most of your controllers won't have.

That leaves you with RAID in the controller - which is a bad idea, as you don't have much control over what is going on, and recovery if it fails will possibly messy.

Ich hab das hauptsaechlich bei digitalen services. Ich schreib denen dann immer das ich ab jetzt deren Kram via Torrent beziehe weil sie entweder ihre Infrastruktur nicht im Griff haben, oder Datenverkaufende Arschloecher sind.

That's pretty much the "we should all put PoE everywhere" debate, and I don't think that'll happen (or is a good idea) - and that's coming from me as someone with switches providing 1.5kW of PoE power budget in the garage.

The alternative would be a shared conductor like we have now - and while that is working will in data centres doing a conductor in the required dimensions for that would be too big, and potentially dangerous, so that'll happen even less.

Older notebooks, battery chargers, PMR radios, pretty much everything taking less than 100W DC current.

Tetra (the digital radio) is a nice example for that. It was 'secure' for a long time - or at least we don't know otherwise, because the majority of issues found when an independent team finally bothered to reverse that thing can be exploited without the operators noticing.

With an open standard people would've told them in the 90s already that they're morons.

My wife does that. I've been wondering more than once if I need to get her brain checked.

Battery replacement on the old Sony readers is trivial.

I relatively recently checked out some other ebook readers, mainly as the Sony isn't too responsive with a big library on it, and I prefer just having everything on there - but turns out neither Kindle nor Kobo perform that well with a big library either. The UI of the old Sony reader is still way better than any of the other ebook readers I've tried.

I'm currently carrying a kindle in flight mode, filled via calibre - in the night the backlight is nicer than the clip on light I've been using with the Sony, but I still keep the Sony charged and use now and then.

Es ist inzwischen verdammt schwer einen Doener zu finden der nicht Hack ist.

Currently in Finland - single family home in a town with 46k people. Originally from a 2k village in Germany.

We have two daycares, a school and a grocery store 1km from home - here that kind of stuff is integrated in the neighbourhoods where people live. Many elementary schools, some just grades 1 and 2 - by grade 3 they can already easily travel the longer distance to another school by themselves.

I find it quite useful as warning that you'll now hear about the opinion of a moron which you can safely ignore.