It’s not necessary in most cases, but it has advantages. Namely, it’s easier to work with and melts at lower temperatures (less risk of damaging components and burning yourself). Also, while lead has its risks, they’re easy enough to mitigate.

Lots of conjecture and misunderstanding in the other comments. Thanks for posting actual sources.

Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.

What’s the point of replacing them? The warranty doesn’t keep them from dying, it just means you get a free replacement. The amount of life left on the drives after the warranty expires depends heavily on how they’re used, and most self hosters are pretty gentle on their drives. I could see replacing the drives that are heavily used, but replacing all drives just because their warranty expired seems like a waste of money and effort.

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Only 4x? Not sure what UK rates are like, but it could easily be 10x that in the US.

Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…

It could - if a woman has a child with her own son.

Grapheneos isn’t rooted by default, and they recommend re-locking the bootloader after installing it, so most banking apps work.

Looks like they’re mainly used in Galaxy S phones and tables…

Depending on how much the investor’s interest rates are they could be covering maintenance costs, making a profit, and still charging less than a new mortgage at current interest rates. So depending on your landlord and how much profit they’re trying to squeeze, renting might be a better option than buying right now.

I’m not a CPA, but I don’t think you can write off something that already made a profit. How would that even work, if companies were able to write off predicted ad revenue? They could make up any value and never have to pay any taxes at all.

I don’t think write-offs have anything to do with them removing these episodes.

I don’t think they can write it off either way, though. It only makes sense to write off shows that haven’t made money. It’s just “retiring” when you’re taking about something that’s already been released. There’s no ulterior profit motive, unlike when they write off unreleased movies and shows.

What does this have to do with write-offs? I don’t think they can write off episodes of South Park and the daily show that have already aired.

Isn’t the same true in the EU, then?

You also don’t need to show any ID for a business to meet “know-your-customer” regulations. Can you get a phone number without revealing your identity?

I believe the same is true in the US.

They’re targeting people selling stolen credit cards and drugs, who are advertising on telegram. Your friend (SWIM?) is fine.

For me it would help if there would be an option for me to see the at least the reason why the call is being made and also an estimated time of the call.

There is: the person calling can first send a short text asking if they can call you to talk about ________.

I know I already said I’m out, but that’s the most truthful thing you’ve said in this entire conversation. Thanks for finally being somewhat honest.

Your entire post is a series of strawman arguments. You clearly aren’t interested in conversing in good faith, so I’m out.

“Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get filthy and the pig likes it.”