There’s an old school program called spinrite that is designed to stress test them and gives you a little report at the end.

Those old school drives were built like tanks.

I still have a few ~100MB drives in my things and you can feel the difference in quality compared to today.

I always wondered what would happen if you shot them lol. Thanks for satisfying an age old curiosity.

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

Trade in offer poor value.

I can sell mine often for 3x what they offer.

I’m a big fan of init 0. My friends say I’m living on the edge but if an application can’t handle it, I don’t want it.

For web APIs you can play with the program postman to get a feel for them. It doesn’t do soap well though.

I’ve been using Firefox ESR. It’s stable, reliable and ublock origin works great on it.

My buddies are trying to get me to use brave but I’m hesitant. I’ve been using Firefox since it was Netscape.

The article is pretty junk. What’s the plan offer?

Do you think it may be related to the monopoly issues they are currently facing?

Woah that’s more than 6.

They aren’t doing anything special like that. If you’re experiencing problems like that it’s likely caused by an incumbent party. Check that your DNS records aren’t being tampered with.

Not all regions use the same emergency number if they even have one at all.

Make sure you use a domain registrar and server that’s in a suitable jurisdiction for you.

With that many options, it’s your bad if the card doesn’t work. Wow haha

You can do that with Firefox ESR across your company in a similar way to group policy.

I haven’t played with third party dialers since gingerbread was new.

But, have you disabled any power saving features both from the manufacturer and the OS?

I wonder if something like LineageOS would be suitable for you?

They even killed wmic. It was like control panel but in the command prompt.

But can it play doom 3?

I have a colour laser brother that’s been happily working for over 10 years. They are solid printers.