As someone who owned a 1993, a 2000, and a 2008 BMW in succession, I cannot believe anyone would buy the pieces of crap they have turned into.

I stopped buying them when they started piping in fake engine noise into the cabin and dropped all pretense that the cars would last beyond the lease period (I don’t buy new cars).

It looks like they have gotten much worse.

Why would a telecom company care what the content of the bits they are being paid to transmit?

The volume I can understand.

DuckDuckGo.com

I have experienced everything said here about USB drives failing.

What I do now is I have a pair of identical 6TB USB drives set up as a mirrored RAID.

So far so good. It has been a couple of years.

Not an expert, but I don’t think replacing the TPM chip is an option.

How did you run a memory test? Do you get a command line?

This picture does not look like what happens to a car when it is hit by a train

This looks like something that I would find extremely cool if I had any idea what it was.

So there are cheaper generics available and they are forcing people to go without?