Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren’t buying a piece of software, you’re buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

I suppose that is because you have to have a default browser. Well, strictly spaking you don’t, I suppose, but some things are going to stop working.

It’s not up to Firefox to scan your system for a list of browsers to offer you, so I suppose this is the easiest way.

As someone else said, just open up the browser you want to be default and check the option there.

As a drinker of both, I’ll have you know coffee a baked bean beverage, thank you very much.

Gilbert Grape?

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I mean, of course it doesn’t. All the pic abused are being sold as calamari.

They should have just plain been disbarred. They were, de facto, lying in court.

Got a call from “Amazon UK”. I’m in Belgium, but i do have a UK account.

I requested him to verify by looking up my last order. He said “but I’m from Amazon UK sir”. Yeah, so?

Apparently my last order was “a big dildo for my mother and fuck you asshole” 🤣

Yep. The EU lawsuit forced them to. Also internet exploder is no longer a thing these days 🙂

Yeah, but the billionaires on board are not seeing it faster than we are!

It’s the MS part that bothers me. That it’s now exclusive is just one thing that makes them shit.

So in one post, you tell me there is finally going to be a new Indy game, AND that it’s going to be owned by MS…

I don’t like you, OP.

Of all the non-dairy milks I’ve tried, oat is the most palatable to me. Still distinctly prefer cow, though. But then i grew up on the fresh stuff, not the watery crap from the supermarket.

And to say that I’ve now switched almost entirely to half because the boy wants to diet. I flat out refuse to buy skim, though, that’s just coloured water.

It undeniably does, but what would be interesting is a comparison of how much water is needed per liter of milk and various substitutes.

It was until they shipped systemd. Bloody mess.

This one, I could believe it’s real. Lovely 😁

It does sound like that, but I’m not judging without having seen their content.

I’ve experienced similar things on Reddit in the past; most recently a downvote brigade swooping down on myself and another experience storage administrator in r/hoarders for suggesting things - out of considerable enterprise expertise - on how to make storage on consumer grade disks more reliable and more recoverable.

Mostly I just shrug and move on, though. I’m addressing the OP, not the screechers, and if OP saw the advice that’s all I wanted anyway.

This person seems to take more issue with it, but they’ve taken their own way forward.

You should actually be able to transfer and sell - that’s handled at the tld.

Also, there’s a lifetime to that cache, so if it’s down long enough it’ll become unreachable.