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<riteo>like, if you have an easy way of building stuff it's easier to say "so I need this piece for this and so on", so that you don't have mystery boxes that you have no idea what they are for
<sad_plan>exacly :D
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<midfavila>kiss kernel when
<midfavila>riteo unfortunately ur a batterylet now. acquire reform, hook up 12v lead acid battery
<midfavila>live forever
<midfavila>also re: ssds not a fan of the new ones :x
<midfavila>going to have to stock up on SLC NOS models before theyre all gone
<riteo>midfavila: wait are 12v lead acid batteries actually suitable for computers
<riteo>also, what's going on with new ssds?
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<midfavila>i mean im sure if you were really determined they could be :P
<midfavila>batteries are batteries are batteries afaik
<midfavila>new ssds are tlc or mlc-"3d nand"
<midfavila>cost reduction measure that also increases size by allowing multiple bits per cell
<midfavila>wears out individual cells much faster tho
<midfavila>at least afaik
<riteo>oh I see
<riteo>if reliability is of concern I wonder if it would be possible to fit two (perhaps small ones?) ssds to stripe them or something
<riteo>although thinking about it SSDs are packed with error-correction technology so perhaps it's irrelevant
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<midfavila>for regular use yeah it is
<midfavila>im just hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
<riteo>ehhhhhh
<riteo>im hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh to all SSDs
<riteo>like they're a huge hack from the ground up
<riteo>"so all right we got this solution that wears up in no time" "I know! Let's stripe it internally and do a lot of fancy maths that are all completely hidden from the user!"
<riteo>in the meantime HDDs are literally a spinning disk with a magnet on a stick
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<sad_plan>midfavila: about the reform, im hoping they release the slim model any time soon. then I might consider it. although im kinda afraid of different archetectures... not sure I could actually fix issues I come across along the way
<sad_plan>hm, it seema they made a post about it some time ago https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2024-09-09-introducing-mnt-reform-next.html
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<sewn>I'd rather pay 100 for a ancient thinkpad the size of the mnt reform
<sewn>feels heavily overpriced man
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<sad_plan>well, it is kinda, but youre also paying for it being foss asell as modular
<sad_plan>the price to performance ratio is rather terrible though
<sad_plan>the framework makes more sense in comparisson
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<midfavila>sad_plan ARM feels pretty mature
<midfavila>but yes if youre concerned about performance-price ratio maybe don't get the reform
<midfavila>altho the ls1028a or w/e is pretty good
<midfavila>but i'll also point out that for a lot of stuff you can get by pretty easily even with an old machine
<midfavila>i used an IBM A31p throughout most of high school :p
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