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.

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Why did Fortune publish this article in their “Success” section?

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…

I didn’t say their point wasn’t valid, I just thought their reading comprehension was ironic.

The article is about a course that’s required for all freshmen, not just lit majors. Here’s the first sentence of the article:

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998.

True. But it’s also part of a greater strategy to avoid paying taxes.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taxgainlossharvesting.asp

No, when someone like Musk sells their investments it’s not taxed as regular income, it’s taxed as “capital gains.” The capital gains tax rate is lower than the income tax rate, and can be as low as 0%. Also, only the net profit (if there is any) is taxed. Unlike income, where it’s all taxed and the lowest rate is 10%.

Someone like Musk can sell a billion USD of stock and not have to pay any tax on it by selling a mix of shares that lost money and made money.

Income tax is paid by the working class. Billionaires don’t have “earned income” (because they don’t have jobs) so they don’t pay income tax. They make money through investments.

Buy high, sell low amirite?

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

Thanks for clarifying.

Still not sure what you’re talking about… Is someone going to ask IA for payment related to the zendesk email?

Are you saying the person who sent the zendesk email is going to try to get IA to hire them for something? I’m not sure I follow…

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…