That’s a horizontal rule.

Refreshingly, the frontend just converts it to a plain old HTML <hr> tag and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, either.

For the context of bulk consumer storage (or even SOHO NAS) that’s irrelevant, though, because people are already happily using spinning mechanical 3.5" hard drives for this purpose, and they’re all already SATA. Therefore there’s no logical reason to worry about the physical size or slower write speeds of packing a bunch of flash chips into the same sized enclosure for those particular use cases.

There are reasons a big old SSD would be suitable for this. Silence, reliability, no spin up delay, resistance to outside mechanical forces, etc.

That’s probably because the posts are stored as plain text, and any markdown within them is just rendered at display time. This is presumably also how you can view any post or comment’s original source. So, here you go:

Double –

En – (alt 0150)

Em — (alt 0151)

And for good measure, a triple:

Actually, I notice if you include a triple that’s not on a line by itself it does render it as an em dash rather than en, like so: —

I don’t think anyone has much issue with our current write speeds, even at dinky old SATA 6/GB levels. At least for bulk media storage. Your OS boot or game loading, whatever, maybe not. I’d be just fine with exactly what we have now, but just pack more chips in there.

Even if you take apart one of the biggest, meanest, most expensive 8TB 2.5" SSD’s the casing is mostly empty inside. There’s no reason they couldn’t just add more chips even at the current density levels other than artificial market segmentation, planned obsolescence, and pigheadedness. It seems the major consumer manufacturers refuse to allow their 2.5" SSD’s to get out of parity with the capacities on offer in the M.2 form factor drives that everyone is hyperfixated on for some reason, and the pricing structure between 8TB and what few greater than 8 models actually are on offer is nowhere near linear even though the manufacturing cost roughly should be.

If people are still willing to use a “full size” 3.5" form factor with ordinary hard drives for bulk storage, can you imagine how much solid state storage you could cram into a casing that size, even with current low-cost commodity chips? It’d be tons. But the only options available are “enterprise solutions” which are apparently priced with the expectation you’ll have a Fortune 500 or government expense account.

It’s bullshit all the way down; there’s nothing new under the sun in that regard.

Current ones also store multiple charge levels per cell, so they’re no longer one bit each. They have multiple levels of “punch” for what used to just be one bit.

Interesting observation about the em dash. I never thought about it that hard, but reddit’s text editor (as well as Lemmy’s, at least on the default UI) automatically concatenate a double dash into an en dash, rather than an em dash.

I use em dashes (well, en dashes, as above) in my writing all the time, because I am a nerd.

For anyone who cares, an en dash is the same width as an N in typical typography, and looks like this: –

An em dash is, to no one’s surprise, the same with as an M. It looks like this: —

(For what it’s worth, Lemmy does not concatenate a triple dash into an em dash. It turns it into a horizontal rule instead.)

Yeah, a shotgun is probably a better choice.

we “had” to support Biden in the primary

What primary?

It’s bully for the device if it knows, but that doesn’t help the user who has just pulled one identical looking cable out of many from the drawer and will have no idea until they plug it in whether or not they will get a picture, nothing, near-undiagnosable partial functionality, or smoke.

I wish manufacturers would bother to mark the capabilities of their otherwise identical looking ports and cables, so we could figure out what the hell we were looking at when holding a Device That Does Not Work in one hand and a cable in the other.

They absolutely do. Not only Lemmy posts in general, but I have found my own content completely unintentionally on searches several times.

Just search for obscure shitty pocketknife models and my dinkum pictures from here are among the top results, sometimes even #1. I therefore conclude that this is not outside the realm of possibility.

Eh. I torched all my comments when I left (and posts, too) and I’ve said before and still maintain that I’m not sorry in the slightest.

If anything wants to know anything I said that was relevant to anything (and not the usual cavalcade of political bickering) they can come here and ask. I’ll gladly retype any of it.

Fuck reddit. The quicker we can dispose of it and just rip that Band-Aid off, the better.

I will occasionally post a screenshot of an excerpt of a web site, specifically for the purpose of showing it to whoever I’m responding to who is continuing to bleat rather than visit the link I provided and use their eyes, or is attempting to argue with me about the presence of content that is, in fact, right there as plain as the nose on your face. Extra bonus points if whatever they need to click on to get what they want is right there in the header or sidebar menu, without even having to scroll or anything.

I maintain that this method of saying, “look, dumbass” is perfectly valid.

That wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. For what it’s worth, it wasn’t even part of an arcade. Just standing forlornly by itself in the center of the concourse of a largely empty section of the mall. I know these things are typically privately operated and not part of the mall itself or whatever establishment they’re in. There may or may not have been a bank of gumball machines behind it, I don’t remember.

Anyway, that mall got bulldozed a couple of years ago and given the state it was in, I wouldn’t be surprised if that machine were still in it at the time. And good riddance.

Here’s the story about those damn cut-the-string machines I repeat every time I see one of these.

There used to be one on my local dying mall. Noticing this, and being the clever dick that I am, I came by one day with a powerful laser and cheesed it by slicing the string in half right through the glass.

I subsequently found out that the iPad box that was dangling from the string was, in fact, empty. No “call this number and use this coupon to redeem your prize.” Just, empty. Too bad about your fifty cents, kid. Get fucked.

Do you know, I don’t feel bad in the slightest about cheating that damn machine.

INB4 he finds out it’s not easy being green.

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee.

That’s because there is a strong tradition of rights distribution for movies and TV being totally fucked up, and it has been since day 1 of both industries. Brought to you by the same motherfuckers who gave you Hollywood Accounting^tm, where a movie that cost $100 million to make and raked in $500 million at the box office somehow “didn’t turn a profit” and magically they don’t have to pay royalties to any of their writers or actors.

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