That’s not busy work. Busy work, as explained in the article, is work that doesn’t really accomplish anything, like re-folding towels that have already been folded. Or as I’ve had to do before, sweep a perfectly spotless sidewalk. Data validation is valid work.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Only if you file suit and the court finds it enforceable. Sometimes they say you can sue anyway.
That would probably dissolve some of the plastic parts.
They should fix that, because it’s certainly degrading the experience on Lemmy. A good number of these replies have the tags longer than their actual content.
We’re already at that point. Even recipe sites, which I’ll give the benefit of assuming aren’t already ML-generated, are already so similar, boring, and irrelevant that nobody reads them.
In the past few months, I’ve also noticed a lot of sites showing up in my Google search results purporting to be relevant or answer my question, but when I actually read them they are also completely useless. For example, I couldn’t figure out how to take a friend’s Instagram story and reshare it to my own if I wasn’t tagged in it. Several pages were titled to look useful, but all of them gave only alternatives.
The problem is not that it’s regurgitating. The problem is that it was trained on NYT articles and other data in violation of copyright law. Regurgitation is just evidence of that.
Mounting or unmounting a filesystem won’t make a difference for drive longevity.
If you want to keep your backups secure, you want to keep them offline, so if you get ransomware it doesn’t encrypt your backup too. (Or if you just mistype a command and target the wrong device, folder, etc.)
But drive motor starts and stops are when the most failures occur. So the ultimate question isn’t how to make a drive last longer, it’s how you plan to handle it when the failure inevitably occurs.