Qubes is the gold standard
Network namespaces also work
Portmaster is a good gui for this approach
oh no! Not Johnny drop tables!
fdroid does not require you to sign in
I have a, honest to goodness breaks the electron flow, power switch for a reason, the shutdown command was a warning not a request.
https://hackertalks.com/post/4156518 my full review of the game
Dust born is pretty good, for a visual novel. They knew they were going for a super niche market segment. Their previous games have the same “reach”. They have no room to complain, at least people hating on the game are actually talking about the game.
Switching to Linux is great and easy. As long as nothing goes wrong. The second something goes wrong, you need to climb a very daunting learning curve.
You deleted your last post on a similar topic, which had some excellent discussion and comments, and now all of that good content for lemmy is gone.
Deleting posts is not great for the community.
What is a renewed drive? Do they have a datasheet with MTBF defined?
Spinning disks, or consumable flash?
What is the use case? RAID 5? Ceph? JBOD?
What is your human capital cost of monitoring and replacing bad disks?
Let’s say you have a data-lake with Ceph or something, it costs you $2-5 a month to monitor all your disks for errors, predictive failure, debug slow io, etc. The human cost of identifying a bad disk, pulling it, replacing it, then destroying it - Something like 15-30m. The cost of destroying a drive $5-50 (depending on your vendor, onsite destruction, etc)
A higher predictive failure rate of “Used” drives, has to factor in your fixed costs, and human costs. If the drive only lasts 70% as long as a new drive, then the math is fairly easy.
If the drive gets progressively slower (i.e. older SSDs) then the actual cost of the used drive becomes more difficult to model (you have to have a metric for service responsiveness, etc).
if its a hobby project, and your throwing drives into a self-healing system, then take any near free disks you can get, and just watch your power bill.
If you make money from this, or the downside of losing data is bad, then model out the higher failure rate into your cost model.
Okay. So what should LTT have done?
Ignore it completely and not respond?
yes. mail
or crypto like monero
or prepaid credit cards
or voucher resellers, etc