I dont agree for environments sake it should be user replaceable batteries even in small electronic devices. Hearing aids has user replaceable batteries
Code that is written will have to maintained often by someone else than who wrote the code. So if one write code nobody else understands its an eventual maintenence failure.
You could optimize for different things. Code understandability by the team, speed, technical brilliance.
If you optimize for technical brilliance but nobody else on the team understands the code its still a failure.
Actually with data fusion VPN does not fix privacy. Ad networks does data fusion of Javascript browser finger print. So you are de cloaked any way on a VPN
"Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)[3] is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform. It mirrors block devices between multiple hosts"
The aviation industry has spent decades researching cockpit design, running simulator studies, and learning from accidents. They still use physical buttons for critical controls. If touchscreen-everything was safer or better, they’d have adopted it by now. The main reasons cars are removing buttons are cost savings and aesthetics—not driver safety.
You go to ebay search for a used GPU. You get a price.
Neither is used servers a new thing or used routers. There are established used server companies.
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