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Anon likes trains (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No turbulence while taking a piss or shit

Train bathrooms seem specifically designed to discourage using the bathroom while riding a train.

Also I had a laptop die from the constant vibrations destroying the hard disk drive.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Also I had a laptop die from the constant vibrations destroying the hard disk drive.

Well, that's pretty much an issue of the past now.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

It was last year.

[–] remon@ani.social 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but it's rather specific case if you were still using a laptop with an HDD last year.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are still a few use cases... mainly price. A 4TB 2.5" HDD can be had for less than a bottom-of-the-barrel 2TB NVME.

But I would definitely hesitate to bring spinning drives on a bumpy ride.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Spinning drives have a no place in a laptop. In a desktop at home, sure.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely no reason to put one in a new laptop.

But not all computers are new.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Sure. But even my ~8 year old laptop has an M.2 drive. I haven't seen a spinning disk in anything I've considered buying in the last ~10 years.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
But I don't know the details of your situation, obviously, and it's not impossible.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

And at least the laptops I had with spinning drives had vibration dampening.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

... I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They're good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.