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Cake day: July 31st, 2025
  • It is prone to constant change. Any time an area decides to change time zones, or adjust DST dates, that requires a tzdata update.

    It can get geopolitically complex, too, because if a country invades a neighbor and tells them to start using the invader’s time zone, should tzdata reflect that, even though it’s illegal?

  • I buy all of mine used from random people via ebay. I’ve had a few DOA, and a few start throwing errors after a few years. No issues getting replacements or refunds from sellers within the warranty period. Never had one outright fail, nor have I lost any data from this.

    I just checked and it turns out two of my drives are over 95,000 hours, that’s nearly 11 years! And they’re still going strong with no errors!

  • A CPU serial number or other ID is more unique than a MAC address, as those can be spoofed, and are not guaranteed to be unique, either. I heard one case of someone tearing their hair out over a mystery network issue, eventually discovering two NICs with the same MAC. And also the case of someone buying a whole pallet of NICs, which turned out to all have the same MAC address.

    But I don’t think that math checks out. A player driven away might return, but a banned player can’t.