i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. "noticeably bad" really undersells how terrible they are.
the 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
in NC i saw a faint red/pink/magenta glow over the whole sky for a little while. it was as bright as the sky normally is about 45 minutes after sunset when you can only see the brightest stars and planets. the stars looked like they turned pink
not OP but the moon was to the Northwest around a heading of 300° and the moon is in this picture
When I made a fresh install of windows 11 a few months ago I used this tool. The readme says it works on windows 10 but I’ve never tried it myself on 10. https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools
When I got rid of edge on windows 10 a few years ago I think I booted into a live linux USB stick and deleted or renamed the edge directory. Maybe that doesn’t quite fit the definition of uninstall but the end result was edge couldn’t run afterward which is what I wanted.
I don’t remember if disabling edge updates is part of the debloat tools or if I did this myself, but the tasks starting with MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTask in Task Scheduler are disabled now on my system. Method 3 of this guide shows how to find those tasks. https://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-or-remove-microsoftedgeupdate-exe-process-running-in-task-manager/
americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world
it's only a duvet if it comes from the Duvet region of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling blanket
Buzz Aldrin saw the flag from Apollo 11 get knocked over by expanding exhaust gasses https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
"mdr" is short for "mort de rire" which means "dead from laughter" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mort_de_rire
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100kW can raise the temperature of 1L of water from 20C to 100C in 3.34 seconds. It's enough power to brew about 300 shots of espresso in 30 seconds. That seems like a lot to me.
The elites don’t want you to know this but the words on the internet are free you can take them home I have 458 words.