Normally SSDs do data cleanup utilities when idle so simply having it powered on would do the job. But if you want to do this as periodic maintenance then use the time to do something useful, run an extended SMART diagnostics. It's guaranteed to touch the entire drive and spit out a nice report at the end of it.

Seriously? Why not run extended SMART tests? It cycles through all the active areas *AND* gets and stores valuable diagnostic information and spits out a lovely report at the end of it.

Your comment sounds like the kind of person who threw away the manual to their car and simply changes oil every 6 months hoping for the best.

Yes and no. The concept of urban sprawl means eventually cities tend to grow into areas such as this due to no voluntary choice of anyone. In many cities (especially mega cities) there is no simple availability of housing that makes the choice completely optional. If it were no one would move their in the first place. In some cases the choice is made for you. I'm reminded of one municipality in Germany building social housing units within the blast radius of ammonia tanks on one of our facilities. The people who are queuing in line for a place to live aren't going to turn down a roof over their heads just because the government fucked up royally during the planning.

There's a term called environmental poverty and it is highly correlated with actual poverty. No one likes living in places like this. No one does so voluntarily. Claiming someone can move out if they aren't happy is an astounding display of privilege fuelled ignorance.

Boundaries aren't arbitrary. The population is defined as the "City Proper". The official boundary of Tokyo ends where the next municipality (prefecture) starts, and has for eons been the boundary of the 23 wards of the old city, and that has a population of 14million. I'm not sure if you've ever seen any government ever, but they don't take kindly to the neighbouring one suddenly reclassifying an area as theirs so these are clearly defined (people know who sends them a bill for taxes).

Maybe you're confusing the words "greater area" which is a non-official designation that usually includes connected surrounding municipalities and in some cases conurbations from a whole extra city. The only time "Tokyo" has ever had a population above 14million is when talking about "The Greater Tokyo Area" which in Japan is the region of Kant and includes 6 other prefectures, Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi which all have their own governments and their own official populations.

No, these boundaries are not arbitrarily redrawn. Redrawing city boundaries takes a lot of effort from official acts of government, yes even in the 3rd world. - Again people tend to know when someone different comes asking for money claiming "you are mine now". It is public and doesn't happen very often.

Nurburgring records are separated into production and non/production vehicles. The car in question is currently ranked 3rd in the *OFFICIAL* lap records. And the only reason it's listed in a non-street legal is that this model was a prototype and hasn't been released for production *yet*. Unlike the other cars that beat it, the SU7 actually looks like car that you see on the road... because it will be and it's built in the body of one that already is.

I drive a Chinese EV (Polestar). Several of my friends own BYDs, and one owns a Geely. Many of my workmates drive Volvo EVs. I see nothing that doesn't put them right up along side and in many cases outclass any European / American cars. Both in build quality, fit and finish, and safety features.

I happily bitch about anything. Renault is on my shitlist. Mazda as well (some truly dumb UI decisions in its car). Ford, Chevy, Opel (GM), the cheaper VWs, they all feel like they are made in China, unlike the Chinese cars I've driven which feel very much like they aren't.

I'd happily pick a Chinese car again based on my personal experience. I was apprehensive until I drove a few of them. I was expecting what you get from Temu electronics but for the most part the cars feel good, responsive to input, stable, gutsy, my own car has Google Built-in so an actually competent dashboard UI (unlike Audi who need to take their programmers behind the barn and put them out of their misery), and surprisingly of all ... the buttons feel solidly clicky. Like far better than some European cars.

Plenty of people talk about them. Do they meet US safety standards? Fucking please, that's child's play. BYD Seal has a 5 star European NCAP and ASEAN NCAP. In several categories it beats a Tesla Model S.

What is most laughable about your comment is that Geely own Volvo, widely considered the most safety conscious car brand on the market. And since purchase by Geely Volvo hasn't remotely slipped in the safety department, still making some of the safest cars on the road today.

Yeah sorry but you're full of shit. There's nothing "egg shell" about them. They are heavy and chunky cars, even the smaller Atto is a massive beast compared to many other cars in its class (5 star safety rating by the way). Are you comparing them to a Cybertruck instead of a normal car?

You want to see it? Look it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... there's the video, one showing a crash or BYD's smallest car to a front driver half impact (one of the worst case scenarios for head on collision, that would leave the driver walking away and calling his own pickup truck. A fuckton better than many cars on the market.

They are basically paid actors, little more. What is truly amazing is the people who will outright explicitly lie for money. It's one thing to tell people how awesome a car is, or how cool your latest Temu product was, but quite another to pretend that a school shooting was fake, or do whatever Karoline Leavitt tells herself she's doing so she sleeps better at night. The people who come up with the lies are the worst, far worse than those people who simply act the result.

I don’t use the word cringe often but your comment fits the definition.

He openly attempted to overthrow the US government. He is also a convicted felon and a rapist. Never mind that he is an incredibly incompetent buffoon who is bankrupted every single company he has ever been in charge of without exception.

And all it took for him to get another term with a shitload of propaganda, the news media being owned by billionaires and the Democrats running a man far too old to be running and a woman.

There was also a metric fuck ton of voters suppression. Literally millions of illegal challenges to signatures and voter registrations. Not to mention multi-hour waits to vote. There's a reason that a state like Missouri that is almost 50% black is a red state and it's not conservative family values.

Every single institution designed to protect you from psychopaths and rapists has failed. Or rather it has been systematically dismantled going back to when Barry Goldwater lost.

So yeah Donald Trump is absolutely going to run for a third term if he is physically able and the corrupt supreme Court that struck down Roe v Wade by citing a literal witchfinder general is going to rubber stamp it.

And I don't think the voters who are allowed to vote are going to stop him because about 30% of them think he is the second coming of Christ about another 10% think he is a business genius and about 5% are so confused they don't know what the fuck and then all the Republicans have to do is stop about 6% from voting and Bob's your uncle third term of trump.

All that for a man who has 28 credible rape accusations eight of which involved children.

If we can elect a rapist who bankrupts every company he touches president twice we can do it a third time.

in America. You can chart a direct line from when smartphones and the internet got cheap and widely available and the decline of religious extremist churches in America. Specifically the hyper-political mega churches that were created and built up by billionaires in order to trick people out of their property and jobs.

That's a good example of something like a one laptop per child having a direct tangible effect in a positive direction. Albeit not as a charity case but just as a consequence of cheap electronics. You went from people having a single source of Truth in the form of a corrupt preacher to being able to Google everything the corrupt preacher tells them.

It also means that all the rape and pedophilia the churches have been actively hiding gets around really fast. I suspect social media has a impact there too.

You’re missing the entire point.

I had two family members with major health problems hit right around 2008 one of which survived the other of which died.

I wasn't fully recovered financially until around 2016 which is when my kid hit College and suddenly I had the pay for them to go through college. Not being a psychopath or a piece of shit I stepped up and actually paid for them to get through college. Because if you're going to have a fucking kid you should make damn sure they can actually support themselves in this fucked up world and have a decent life.

I have only just now recovered from that Financial blow only to have the fucktards that are the American voters put Donald Trump back in charge so that he can promptly collapse the economy.

Trump is likely going to get a third term unless he dies of old age or senality gets him. And the economic fallout from that is probably going to be the end of me.

Basically I've gotten one gut punch after another with just enough to keep me going until the next kicking the balls. Which is the quintessential American experience if you're not a piece of shit baby boomer who pulled the ladder up behind them because they hate queer people and are scared of brown skin.

There is nothing more American than I got mine fuck you. What's funny is is the age 50 to 64 Boomer types who got the tail end of the New deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great society are about to get a huge punch in the balls from their god king Donald Trump.

They are all over the Internet freaking out right now because he's bankrupting them and making them homeless. Every single one of them says the same thing, I voted for Trump three times and I will vote for him again but I don't understand why this great man has destroyed my business or my job or taking my health care away or murdered my kids or whatever horrible thing Trump did this week.

Out of maybe a hundred of them that show up over on the Reddit leopards eating faces for him one or two of them have the presence of mind to say they probably shouldn't have voted for trump. Probably. But fuck it feels good to vote for Trump doesn't it? Stick it to those fucking God damn liberals right? So fucking sick of them telling me what to do right?

This website is full of those fuckers. They keep their mouths shut and try to soak up mod points because they know what they're doing is wrong but they can't stop it because it feels so fucking good and that 12-year-old boy who doesn't like being told what to do kind of way.

We have too many people disconnected from the economy.

Brexit absolutely destroyed the UK economy but you wouldn't know that if you're an elderly pensioner who voted for it because as the saying goes I got mine, fuck you. At worst you had to sell your Spanish summer home.

The same goes for the billionaires who used to just be lowly millionaires.

Both groups basically have all the political power, the billionaire is because of their money and the old people because of their numbers.

So you get a lot of public policy that is basically guaranteed to destroy everything because why the hell not?

The billionaires want absolute power and to build monuments and Dick ship rockets. The old people want to revel in their Petty bigotries and look back at the good old days without acknowledging the help from the government that made those days good.

Both sides have basically screwed anyone under 50.

Eventually although the billionaires will get away with it the old people might not. Especially the ones in the 50 to 65 age group.

Because of the low price. Put a shocked face and title it "This amazing EV is only $23,000!!!"

This works because there are not equivalent US/EU/Japan/Korea cars in the same price ranges, I can watch influence reviews of all the $50-80k EV's from those countries all day long but they won't have the same effect because I wouldn't be buying those anyway. Now this cheap Chinese EV, if I could I might consider it. It's very effective and a self inflicted problem for the US.