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.
Almost all the residents complaining moved there later. It is like you have been grilling burgers all the time and then someone moves in your neighborhood and complaints for smoky smell.
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.
However, the residents can move out if they are not happy with the plant.
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.
A car that doesn't qualify for official records has beaten official records. This isn't new it happens all the time. That isn't to say it's not bad ass when it happens but this isn't a production vehicle, and has been stripped to its bones.
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
But no one ever talks about the build quality or, more importantly, the safety standards. Does BYD even meet U.S. safety requirements
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.
I ask because I travel a bit and I have driven a couple of different BYD models. Holy shit it's amazing that those those egg shells don't burst into pieces.
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.
Amazing what people will say for money.
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.
Interesting. I can shoot raw directly to my Android internal storage, although it isn't fast enough for 4k60 10 bit without compression.
Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.
Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.
What's changed is that in the early days flash memory was one bit per cell. Now most consumer grade stuff is multi level, so instead of a single threshold voltage that separates a 1 from a 0, there are multiple thresholds that each represent a different binary code.
SSDs sometimes have to re-read blocks with different voltage thresholds to get good data, and make use of error correction on top.
Presumably age related degradation is worse for multi-level flash.
Twitter used to do this with the verified badges, but then Elon started selling them and they became the mark of someone stupid enough to give him money for a blue tick.
It's not a bad idea in principle. A simple cryptographic certificate that government agencies can use to validate their messages. The hardest part will be the UI. Making sure it is clear and not easily spoofed.
Indeed, I've lost count of how many attempts this has been now.
That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.
I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.
I don't think a 50% bump in the on-hand inventory is real a dramatic increase.
Clearly you've never done inventory management before. Managing extra stock like this consumes a whole lot of internal resources. Also given how many PCs Lenovo ship per quarter and assuming you need 2 memory units per PC we're talking for your 15 day extra (assuming that's what it is), about 6 million additional RAM sticks in inventory.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
