If you ask me, the top left corner belongs to IBM i.

Even with turning that on, it seems that many newish motherboards will still sit and putz around for quite some time before finally handing things off to the OS. My guess is there’s little push for speedy boot times (I haven’t really seen this as something that shows up in reviews), so the hardware manufacturers don’t really bother with optimizing for it.

On the other hand, if the computer is powered on, there’s wear and tear on the moving parts (mostly just fans now), and components like capacitors have a limited lifespan. These tend to be the first components that fail anyway, and I’ve always thought it odd to further reduce the lifespan of these components with the hope to extend the lifespan of what’s already the most reliable parts of the computer.

Now, with modern computers that sip power at idle but can consume hundreds of watts under load, the difference in temperature at idle and load is much greater than room temperature (off) and idle, so even if I was worried about thermal cycling I’d still be inclined to turn the computer off when it’s not needed for an extended period of time because when it’s off there will be no big temperature swings. Granted, with Linux when my PC isn’t being used it pretty much just sits at a constant and steady idle… but Windows on the other hand…

Combined with the added electricity cost of not running the computer when it’s not needed, not leaving the machine running all the time is the obvious choice.

Jira Cloud isn’t just the on-prem version of Jira where you’re forced to use and pay for Atlassian’s hosting, it’s actually a different and much shittier version of the old on-prem Jira. Same goes for other Atlassian products such as Confluence.

It’s no surprise to me that Atlassian is in trouble, as there’s little reason I can see to use their products anymore, and they are just coasting on inertia at this point. Whereas 10 years ago, while it was still fun to knock their stuff, I had to admit they were actually pretty decent.

At one point not too long ago I realized that all I really knew about her was her mysterious disappearance in the Pacific, so I had to go read up on her. She was actually a pretty interesting person with an impressive number of accomplishments.

It was noticeably faster for external hard drives than USB 2.0 back in the day (though if anything I miss eSATA).

There’s still some Windows XP-era A/V equipment still in use at work that is Firewire.

A former president who has served two terms is only barred from becoming the vice president. They could otherwise hold any other position in the line of presidential succession, and would be passed over if something happened to everyone in front of them. Same thing applies to the other conditions for being president such as a natural born citizen, 35 years of age, etc.

ECC memory and server hardware in general is surprisingly cheap if you’re fine buying used gear that’s a few years old. Once that stuff gets old enough that it’s being cycled out of data centers en masse, it hits the used market and the supply often exceeds the limited demand for that kind of stuff.

With that said, I don’t know if that’s true at the moment.

Bit rot is real, I’ve seen it first hand in plenty of cases. While I tend to blame the storage device, for infrequently accessed files that have been copied multiple times from different drives, I can’t rule out RAM or some other source of the corruption.

Programs that use more memory could be slightly more susceptible to this sort of thing because if a bit gets randomly flipped somewhere in a computer’s memory, the bit flip more likely to happen in an application that has a larger ram footprint as opposed to an application with a small ram footprint.

I’m still surprised the percentage is this high.