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  computer-salvaging nerds, your suggestions please: I have extracted a 2TB model of one of these (https://www.ifixit.com/products/owc-aura-pro-6g-ssd?variant=39371640602727) from an old MacBook Pro today. The rest of the computer is probably not worth recovering except as e-waste, but in the current market it seems absurd to throw away 2TB of perfectly functional SSD storage just because it is a weird physical format. Does anyone know how this might be connected or adapted to fit a regular M.2 sl...

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  Happy better-approximation-of-pi-and-in-a-format-understood-by-most-of-the-world day.

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  AusAlert test in <1 minute

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  Whoever named that waypoint was not sufficiently online around the turn of the millennium.

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  Which of the following - if any - would you trust to host original content more often than not?

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  Can I send Sam Altman a bill for the extra $400 this cost?

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  I realise I’m one of “today’s lucky 10,000”, but it took me until my 50s to learn it so I’ll share and maybe someone else can be in that 10,000 as well: Being a middle-aged testosterone-having person, I have been bothered by the presence of more nose and ear hair than I’d like for some time now (I’m not a very hairy person, but these things are relative). For at least a decade, I have dealt with this by semi-regularly grabbing tweezers in one hand, smooshing various bits of cartilage around wit...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116479433054490839 This article is great, and the list of "read more" articles underneath it is even better. The sooner the crash comes, the better off we’re all going to be.

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  @NewtonMark if Julie Inman Grant isn’t getting kickbacks from VPN providers, she’s even more of an idiot than I thought she was.

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  if anyone is still looking for Melbourne International Comedy Festival acts to see, you should go see Abby Wambaugh “The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows”. Four more shows left.

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  @cstross I’m an airline pilot and data nerd. I hope you get a commission on sales!