However, staring at a SD card while the music plays is much less enjoyable as staring at a spinning record or tape reels.

However, in some cases the older technology is better. For example, a steam engine can use any heat source as fuel, so it may be useful if you can easily get wood or coal, but not diesel or electricity.

IIRC, a film camera can operate at lower temperatures than a digital one.

Shellac records can be played without electricity.

While CDs have 96dB dynamic range, modern releases are so compressed, the DR is barely 10dB. Generally, newer releases of an old recording sound worse than old CDs, because of this loudness war.

However, watching a file play is much less fun than watching a tape reel or a record spin. Sure, when I am doing something else while listening to music, I can listen to a file just as well (or may still listen to an analog recording since my file collection and my analog collection have different music). Also, when listening to files, I am sometimes too tempted to just skip songs, but I can't do that on a tape (need to keep the winding even, so I refrain from fast forwarding) so I listen to the entire tape.

Speaking of just audio quality - I have a couple of tape recorders with vacuum tubes that from an objective point of view sound worse than my tape decks with transistors - smaller frequency range, more noise, higher distortion). However, playing an old recording (say, the Beatles or something like that), it does sound "better" to me and is more enjoyable to listen to, than, say, playing it on a more modern tape deck.

I have a cassette with 50s rock&roll on it. Playing it on my usual system is OK, but if I connect the cassette deck to my tube radio from 1964 it sounds great! More modern music sounds better on my usual system though.

Cost. SSDs are still more expensive per gigabyte than HDDs. Yes, SSDs are faster, but maybe my 48TB backup server does not have to have microsecond seek times...

TLER is useful in all cases, just that it is pretty much mandatory for RAID, so the drive manufacturers disable TLER on cheaper drives to prevent them from being used in a RAID.

Yes, in theory, non-TLER drive stands better chance of recovering unreadable data, but during that time the PC appears to be frozen, so the user just reboots it. Even with TLER of 7 seconds (default) that's still a long time. I do not know about others, but I'd rather my PC be responsive and report the error so I can either restore the file from backup or run recovery software to read the sector 5000 times hoping to read it correctly once.

We have a bunch of Seagate SV35 drives in a backup server. They started to get kicked out of RAIDZ one by one. Some show actual bad sectors (and were replaced since warranty was not expired), but others worked OK when tested using MHDD and the seller refused to replace then under warranty.

It turned out that those drives are so sensitive to vibration that dropping a coin on the PC case (with the drive secured in the drive bay) from a few cm height caused the drive to hang for about two seconds and emit a beep.

Now we use WD RED drives for this - they are more resistant to vibration and have TLER.

SMART for all the Seagate SV35 drives we have show a lot of "High Fly Writes" - the normalized value is 1 and the raw value is between 1000 and 7000.

In that game, the player also chooses to run people over with his car (either specifically or because driving on the sidewalk is faster), kill them with various weapons etc. That does not make the gamers into murderers.

So, why can I kill a man in a game (and that is OK), but not a woman? The scene where the player has to torture a guy to get information, would that be different if a woman was tortured? Yes? Then where is the equality.

Then again, I am still waiting for various countries that have conscription army to stop excluding women from that.

If you can kill both men and women in a game, that means that there is no gender equality.

Killing men is OK. Killing women is not. I guess it's similar to the race equality where killing a white guy is OK, but killing a black guy is not (unless the player character is also a black guy).

Outlook is webmail now? If I want to use a program then Thunderbird is as good or better than Outlook and also has the threads feature (a plugin). However, I would rather use webmail (self hosted). And I have not been able to find one that works with threads as well as Gmail. That doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I have been unable to find it.

I like the auto threading so much it prevents me from using a different webmail software (on my own domain). While Thunderbird has a plugin that is almost as good as Gmail (almost), I have not found a webmail software (that I can run on my own server) that is as convenient as Gmail for the threads. Roundcube can kinda do it, but it cannot show the entire thread at once.

I like the fact that 100 or so email long conversation is grouped under one heading and is visible on a single page.

Some of my old film cameras have a feature where I can press a button and then the camera takes a picture after some time - usually long enough for me to get back in front of the camera.

Probably a lot if it's a brand new car. Probably not a lot if it's a cheap used car. If you do not drive a lot then the fuel efficiency of a newer car does not compensate the much higher initial price, so a cheap used car is a very good option.

Also, "needing to write many pages of text without a computer/electricity at some point in my life" argument just makes me want to buy a typewriter, not learn cursive writing (or rather how to write cursive so other people can read it).

Or I just put them in the trunk of my car and carry them home or wherever.
If somebody nukes my whole city, I most likely won't care anymore about the data.