Why the Heck Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives? It’s clear that the manufacturer, whoever that may be, didn’t want people to take this hard drive apart. There are no seams, no screws, no obvious points of access. I found a pinhole near the USB-C port resembling a SIM card access point. But no amount of prodding did anything. So I broke out my trusty iFixit tools and pried the thing apart. “What would I find inside?” I wondered as I carefully shoved one end inside the case. Hopefully, I didn’t break whatever was inside. Maybe it really would be a magical 16TB M.2 SSD drive. Perhaps they just installed it incorrectly, and thus it wasn’t performing correctly. Or maybe, if I were to suggest more likely outcomes, I would open the casing and find world peace. Or the solution to unlimited energy. Or at least the answer to why hot dogs come in ten packs while hot dog buns come in 8 packs. Alas, once I managed to take the drive apart, I found exactly what I suspected from my tests: a micro SD card slotted into a circuit board acting as a USB-C adapter. The micro SD card doesn’t have any markings on the front side, and some serial numbers on the back that seem to confirm the 64 GB size my testing revealed. Why does Windows show a 16TB drive, then? That’s likely a part of the board’s firmware, falsely reporting a size that doesn’t exist. This thing is a total lie, from top to bottom.

@jon-nyc said in What will the Speaker vote look like?: Gaetz voted for Trump. Sound on. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1611163673564774401

@Ivorythumper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,: @Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,: Viet Nam memorial It even has the V Maya Lin’s design was intentionally an inverted V for defeat, and a black scar on the earth, and creates a void rather than a sense of presence. It is a poetic place of healing — the mirror smooth black granite allows the families, friends, and surviving comrades to see themselves in the names of the fallen — and is quite a moving piece of architecture appropriate for the complex emotions of the war in Vietnam. That's my view on it. I personally find the finish on the granite the most meaningful feature of the design.

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How many F15s did the selfie doofusses have?

@Ivorythumper haahaha!

Also, asking for a friend, are they auditioning?

Perhaps he was photoshopped into the first picture?

@Aqua-Letifer said in Organic?: (Naked Lunch bowls FTW.) Moler Bowl... Cleans me out something terrible for 24 hours afterward, but man it is tasty.

@LuFins-Dad said in Happy MLK Day!: I spent yesterday at Costco in DC filling in for my African American Salesperson so he could play at several events honoring Martin Luther King. I was demonstrating a Clavinova to an African American Family when a young African American Tween and his mother approached. The tween reached inside of the 5’ Yamaha grand piano, grabbed a damper and proceeded to attempt to pull it out. I told the young man that he wasn’t allowed to touch inside the piano. The mother then took the young man to the assistant manager and complained about the racist not allowing African Americans to touch and try the pianos. The assistant manager then proceeded to inform me that I must check my privilege while in the warehouse. I don’t believe I will take another roadshow to that particular warehouse. You should have gone back to the piano and started playing 'Ebony and Ivory'. Of course, you'd have had to clean up all the vomit afterwards.

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@Horace said in Regrets? He has a few.: Hanging on the precipice of financial ruin is a good way to take your mind off your own mortality. Thanks. I think I'm going to go and Swedish death-clean my room now.

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@Horace said in Gatekeeping: I know it’s a word that had a definition, but the iconoclastic usage is trending now with young adults. It seems to be. I was just curious if anybody else had noticed. I have. It's being applied more broadly to "people who disagree," presumably because the youngsters using it in this way haven't yet the job experience to understand its actual meaning.

@LuFins-Dad looks good!