I will say decent SSD are lasting longer than expected. But if you have a decent HDD, it will last even longer than that. I still have some 500GB WD Blacks in service. The last time I bought one of those was in 2008... That's 14 years and going nicely.

The most significant factor in life span is the environment:
- If you are using a mobile environment, HDD have a much-limited lifespan. When I was specing laptops before the affordability of SSDs became available, I'd estimate 3 years for a laptop HDD because of the vibration wear the drive would take. With SSD, that is orders of magnitude reduced. Also, laptops are often subjected to great thermal change. Running outside in direct sunlight. Cold winter's day. Is the drive spinning up and down much? Gotta save that battery life, so spin down the drive as much as possible... and cause more wear.
- On desktop machines, spin-ups and spin-downs are a big thing. So is the ambient temp too. If the house does not have AC, ambient temps can run from 60-90 Fahrenheit. Those high ambient temps will push up the internal drive temps to dangerous levels.
- Now in a server type situation, drives don't spin-up or spin-down often. The temps usually are not in either of high or low extremes. Placing home servers type machines in the basement is often done to keep down noise and have more consistent cheap cooling during the summer months. Most unheated basements go from about 45-70 Fahrenheit. That's perfect for computer hardware.

Looks at unplayed games in Steam library...

Isn't reducing/halting tariffs on solar panels, cells, and parts counterproductive to building US-produced solar energy products? What US company can compete with China's low labor cost and the well-oiled supply lines to China?

If we were really interested in building US production, allow US solar energy companies to write off appropriate taxes. Also, take tax credits/write-offs from the petroleum companies and give them to the alternative - renewable energy companies to keep the budget balanced.

A 1000Mb oversite!

Sprint was always a CDMA network.

So you have to cut off an Arm to make yourself look better? ;-)

We'll still need programmers, just the roles will change. Think about how many times customers/higher-ups come to the programming groups to create a piece of software/device that they want. Asking for requirements from non-technical people is always vague and they say "just make it work." Human programmers have a hard enough time deciphering another human's requirements. Do you think a computer will do it any better? Not likely.

    * Do their requirements have conflicting requirements? Create targeted ads and respect the end-user's privacy.
    * Are the requirements even possible? Ex. Create FTL communications protocol when FTL isn't even understood.

The biggest issue with laptop with iGPUs, is RAM bandwidth. With performance APUs, Intel/AMD should be recommending/requiring that OEMs put in high-speed RAM (with mobos that support it), not just the low-end speed ram that they normally do in laptops. The iGPU performance increase verse power efficiency loss is almost always worth it. I'm not saying for low-end laptops but for gaming laptops and mobile-workstations.

Does no one remember how fragile WinNT was? You move a PCI card to different PCI slot and then it blue screens on boot up. God forbid the PCI card dies and you can't have it in the system.

Or the fact that on some bootups, it would just mystically lose serial/modem ports from the configuration. Or worse yet, say the port was in-use but it wasn't.

The problem with this that IM systems (SMS, Slack, Skype for Business, etc.) become the defacto communication method and reponses are EXPECTED in a near immediate manner whether the person is on-call or not. This can become just as bad as e-mail if not worse. IM systems are just a form of communication, just like e-mail. It should be treated, and limited, as such.

This is more a chicken and an egg issue for now until availability increases. Developers aren't going to spend time and money on making games for the next generation console (PS5, etc...) only until there is enough critical mass of ownership of the console. The same goes for revamping older titles to the newer platform.

The only game developers/publishers that are going to make games before the availability issues resolve are the game developers that are owned by the console manufacturer and large game companies. The console manufacturer game development houses are relying on the success of their platform so they have to release games to keep the platform alive. The external big companies that have big pockets can afford to play the long game (cough. EA. cough).

The other possibility is that the console manufacturer pays game development houses to release the games on their newest platform to smooth the cash flow issues of smaller developers. Not holding my breath too much on this one.

But does it support HTTP Code 418?

And shorter battery life.

"You're not in compliance, (Organization)!"
Lawyers/politicians negotiate and pays fine/bribe
"(Organizaion) is in Compliance!"

I agree, that the alert() and friends should be around even in CORS. What there should be is permissions to lets 1st party server admins to limit what the 3rd party content can do in their site's name. Without using a reverse proxy, which most ad network would forbid, there is no easy way to limit what they show on your webpage unless the ad network LETS you have some way to filter it.