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  1. Western Digital has zero hard drives left for 2026. It’s February...

    AI companies are deliberately creating physical memory scarcity so your data only lives on their infrastructure.

    The goal is not innovation. It's holding your memories hostage and forcing you to rent space and useless AI compute that serves no real purpose.

    gizmodo.com/because-of-ai-west

    #UsersAReFodder #SiValleyGrift #ai #greed #WesternDigital #harddisk #storage

  2. #WD launches #HDD #recycling process that reclaims #rareearth elements, cuts out #China
    #WesternDigital announced it has created a large-scale #harddisk drive recycling program in concert with #Microsoft and recycling-industry partners #CMR (Critical Materials Recycling) and #PedalPoint Recycling. The new process reclaims Rare Earth Oxides (REO) containing dysprosium, neodymium, and praseodymium from hard drives, along with aluminum, steel, gold, palladium, and copper.
    tomshardware.com/pc-components

  3. In case someone else is wondering why linux luks hard disk encryption is usually within a lvm container: that way you only need one password to unlock multiple partitions.

    (found out the hard way)

    #linux #cryptsetup #harddisk #encryption

  4. If you want to clean up your Mac hard disk and don’t know where to start, GrandPerspective is a great starting point. It visualizes the content of your harddisk. With this its really easy to identify which app causes the loss of disk space.

    grandperspectiv.sourceforge.ne

    #Mac #HardDisk #GrandPerspective #DiskSpace

  5. Die Jäger des verlorenen Bytes haben in #episode #0d112 ihre Geheimnisse geteilt, wie sie die verlorenen Bytes für die Nachwelt wiedergefunden und konserviert haben

    Viel spaß beim hören.

    0x0d.de/2024/02/0d112-jaeger-d

    #zeroday #podcast #testdisk #datarecovery #harddisk