IIRC, HDDs have some reserved sectors in case some go bad. But in practice, once you start having faulty sectors it’s usually a sign that the drive is dying and you should replace it ASAP.

I think if you know drive topology you can technically create partitions on platter level, but I don’t really see a reason why you’d do it. If the drive is dying you need to resilver the entire drive’s content to a new disk anyway.

Playing games it seems.

Those bezels are thicker than the original Steam Deck even.

With a SAS card in IT mode it will show up in your OS as 4 different drives. You can mix and match them however you like. You aren’t restricted into pairs of 4. In fact one SAS cable can be multiplexed into many more than 4 drives.

You can often flash these raid cards into IT mode to disable raid and so that they just pass through the raw disks. That way you can hook up either SAS or SATA drives and run them with software raid of your choosing, like ZFS. SATA is probably the safer bet since you will be able to use them in a future build without issues, but there’s no issue with SAS.

If you can’t flash this raid card to IT mode you can buy a cheap LSI 92xx card. They are quite common and cheap, and easy to flash to IT mode.

Submitting a patent isn’t a leak. You’ll know it will be picked up by others, that’s a price you pay for patenting.

We’re talking about a controller here, not a smartphone. Rechargeable AAs are more than capable enough for these kind of devices. Not everything needs to have the energy density that Li-ion batteries provide.

…But then in turn they’ll earn money with Steam sales, so they’ll be earning money.

Wait. Didn’t Halo: The Master Chief Collection already have a remaster for Halo 1??

ClamAV looks for signatures of known viruses, most of which target Windows and not Linux. So it’s debatable how much more secure you really are by running ClamAV

Ok, so preordering what promises to be a motorcycle but years later getting a bicycle instead that you happen to enjoy riding is also acceptable?

I used to be annoyed at Github projects that were Linux only but didn’t mention it. Now I’m annoyed at Github projects that are Windows only but don’t mention it.

Probably a large part of the hate is because of the all exclusivity deals that they made at the time.

They made a mod called vintagecraft before.

So that’s why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.

but it doesn’t go out of date

That’s not necessarily true. There has been DLC for Train Simulator (now classic) that got delisted and at some point no longer worked due to updates to the game and not to the DLC making it incompatible. Then at some point a new version got added as DLC which you had to buy again to get a working train. (8448 Big Boy and 6446 Challenger come to mind)

I thought we switched to libre for that definition and since then used free only as in free beer.

Why do you use desktop mode for a game?

They are somewhat isolated but not sandboxed.

Really? I am never able to find emails that haven’t been received on Fairemail or are quite old when using an Outlook and/or IMAP email address.