It’s not necessary in most cases, but it has advantages. Namely, it’s easier to work with and melts at lower temperatures (less risk of damaging components and burning yourself). Also, while lead has its risks, they’re easy enough to mitigate.

Lots of conjecture and misunderstanding in the other comments. Thanks for posting actual sources.

Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.

What’s the point of replacing them? The warranty doesn’t keep them from dying, it just means you get a free replacement. The amount of life left on the drives after the warranty expires depends heavily on how they’re used, and most self hosters are pretty gentle on their drives. I could see replacing the drives that are heavily used, but replacing all drives just because their warranty expired seems like a waste of money and effort.

Only 4x? Not sure what UK rates are like, but it could easily be 10x that in the US.

Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…

It could - if a woman has a child with her own son.

No. And it’s hard to call the zendesk one a hack, even. They just used the same credentials that were leaked a couple weeks before.

Grapheneos isn’t rooted by default, and they recommend re-locking the bootloader after installing it, so most banking apps work.

Looks like they’re mainly used in Galaxy S phones and tables…

Why do you think you’d hear about it?

Depending on how much the investor’s interest rates are they could be covering maintenance costs, making a profit, and still charging less than a new mortgage at current interest rates. So depending on your landlord and how much profit they’re trying to squeeze, renting might be a better option than buying right now.

It’s a strawman because they’re trying to shift the focus from one thing (the system is broken) to another (Republicans are bad)

That’s a strawman argument. Pointing out that one of them is worse than the other ignores the real problem - the system is broken.

I’m not a CPA, but I don’t think you can write off something that already made a profit. How would that even work, if companies were able to write off predicted ad revenue? They could make up any value and never have to pay any taxes at all.

I don’t think write-offs have anything to do with them removing these episodes.

I don’t think they can write it off either way, though. It only makes sense to write off shows that haven’t made money. It’s just “retiring” when you’re taking about something that’s already been released. There’s no ulterior profit motive, unlike when they write off unreleased movies and shows.

What does this have to do with write-offs? I don’t think they can write off episodes of South Park and the daily show that have already aired.

That depends on your OPSEC.

Isn’t the same true in the EU, then?

You also don’t need to show any ID for a business to meet “know-your-customer” regulations. Can you get a phone number without revealing your identity?

To be fair, “merging with” doesn’t specify which one will be managing the other. Unlike “merging into”…