Yeah, I’ve wondered if the ones that come with heat sinks really need them or if it’s just a gimmick to make people think the performance is better.
I want one of those heat cameras some use in hardware reviews. I don’t need one, but Iwant one lol.
Passive cooling could be enough. Even a bunch of ssd chips wouldn’t take up all of the vertical space, so top of the case could just be a heat sink. Though it might need instructions to only install it in an enclosure that has a fan blowing air past it (and not use the spots behind the mobo that don’t get much airflow).
A lot of motherboards come with metal styling that acts as a heat sink for nvme drives without even using fins, though they still have more surface area than a 3.5" drive and only have to deal with the heat from one or two chips.
But maybe it isn’t realistic and that’s why we don’t see SSDs like that on the market (in addition to price).
Yeah, nvme drives show how little space the storage takes up. Just stick a bunch of them inside the 3.5" format, along with a controller and cooling, and that would be great for a large/slow (relative to NVME) drive capped by SATA speeds.
I don’t miss the noise hard drives make, plus it’s nice to not really worry as much about what kind of magnetic activity might be going on around it, like is my subwoofer too close or what if my kid somehow gets her hands on a powerful magnet and wants to see if it will stick to my PC case.
Those captcha problems were difficult for automated tools to figure out a decade ago but it’s getting close to a decade since some AI image categorizers have gotten better at the task than the average human.
And those buying the ads would love to know if who sees their ads are bots or humans.
I was one of the “got game pass, usually forget to use it” subscribers. I ended up canceling when games I was playing were no longer available when I did remember about it so I couldn’t finish them anyways, plus the price went up.
Last thing I did was go through their games and add ones that looked interesting to my steam wishlist. And after I cancelled, when one of the games I had been playing went on sale, I realized another thing that I didn’t like about it that I hadn’t even known: they don’t advertise what games use invasive drm or anti-cheat software like steam does.
Though the main driving factor was wanting to divorce myself from as much reliance on MS/Windows as possible.
At which point even the ones who it does help will no longer be able to use it because it probably depends on an online connection for no good reason.
I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.
Hearing that randomly in public from someone else’s phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.
I should do that again. It’s funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.
Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.
On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.
On my Samsung phone, it’s just a list. There’s a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I’ve never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn’t be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.
Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a “install Bixby” screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don’t want and never asked for).