Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

Make sure the new switches are rated for “led dimmers” too and you should be fine then.

Don’t just buy the cheapest dimmers or you’ll be buying them and installing them a second time.

If it’s an old house going to led fixtures can have issues.

Back in the day it was fine to let a little juice trickle past a closed switch (light switch off)

Because what little went thru, wasn’t enough to turn on an incandescent bulb.

But it’s enough to turn on a led dimmly.

So there’s a decent chance if you install a light like in your link, it will always produce light. Then you have to change out the switches and all types of other stuff.

Especially in a rental, you don’t want to open that can of worms. Just use a conventional fixture.

Yeah, dome level would do it.

Probably even be enough to have one inside on the windowsill.

Rodents have an insane sense of smell, and they hate peppermint because the smell is so strong. So it would probably be enough to keep them from going in there.

If it gets enough light/sun that plants grow, put a peppermint plant out there.

Rodents hate the smell.

If nothing grows there. You could spray peppermint every month, or hook up some kind of rope/ladder for them to get out. If you go the “escape route” way tho, they’re gonna live in there having babies and you won’t be able to open the window or they get into the building.

Might be better to put a finer mesh over the chicken wire.

Yeah, the basement is going to be colder…

You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.

If you’re talking about saving energy:

At about 3pm circulate the air. That’s a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it’s highest workload.

At around 6pm or when ever, stop.

Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it’s a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I’d recommend one of those “smart plug” things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.

But if you’re circulating air 24/7, it’s just making your AC cool even more air.

So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.

Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use…

I have zero idea.

But it’s essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.

Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.

Vinegar

Anything with hard water, just soak with vinegar.

You can even fill a ziplock bag and tie it on a faucet.

If your water is really hard, pour vinegar into that little tube in your toilet too, the jets get clogged easily and that flushes them out and prevents them from blocking up. If they are blocked, the vinegar will eventually open them up if you don’t regularly.

Obviously water softener if you don’t have one, but depending what your waters like you may have to do more.

Dude always knew where his towel was.

I mean, they know they’re stealingg it from a real person, and no matter how careful you are, they’re tracking you.

Even if you don’t have a profile, they have a “you shaped hole” and someone somewhere has tagged you in a picture. They still have data on you built from people in any picture you were tagged in, their data gets extrapolated to you.

The ID is so they can sell the data for a higher price because it’s “verified” to be yours. Even tho without it they still 100% know it’s you.

This isn’t about Facebook getting your ID, it’s just so the people they’ll selling it to pay more.

There’s a chance a human never looked at OPs Shrek picture, an AI may have just checked it against real name tagged photos and it didn’t match. Even tho OP doesn’t have a Facebook account under their real name.

Facebook still knows what OP looks like, and almost assuredly knew the burner account was theirs

Obviously not, but considering you’re having difficulty understanding basic rules that exist on every form of social media, there was probably a good reason for the first one.

Lemmy is the easiest to get away with it, but you keep making similar versions of the same username and immediately talking about how you’re evading bans.

Like, it’s hard to believe you’re really not able to understand this, which would leave trolling as the only explanation for your behavior

Do you not know what “ban evasion” is?

You get banned, and immediately make a new account named very similar to make posts about how you were banned in the places your banned…

It’s a fearmongering website design to scare people into buying crypto.

Their articles that aren’t about crypto get spammed to social media a lot. It’s to get traffic on their site and hope they can hook some.

OP actually posts a lot of sources, but it’s probably a bot.

I have seen more than few accounts that soley post this website though. It’s obvious all their articles are fearmongering to encourage crypto.

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years…

Yeah, that’s crazy.

I guess all those $100 deals were used too.

So I guess at least used prices went down?

But I remember years ago a shuckable 12tb for like $120-140 on sale wasnt unusual on buildapcsales.

considering they’re used server parts.

That really should be in the title…

I dunno, I’m one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. But for like $20 more you don’t have to worry about losing the data on it.

Edit:

Apparently prices just haven’t changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.

She also pointed out that “Between 2019 and 2022, Tesla employees internally circulated intimate footage collected from people’s private cars for their own amusement, according to reports.”

But you can definitely trust Musk to put a chip in your head…