What's your latest tech purchase?

[Chomiq]

New Bosch washing machine coming in a few days....
It's tech right?

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Have one from the same line, can recommend. It's quiet, does it's job well and you can pretty much replace every part in it because it's not using glued drum.
Back when I bought mine Bosch had additional 3 years of warranty after registration on their website.

 

[Mussels]

I seem to have stuck with Crucial for some reason, but I've never been let down by them

I don't have any major problems with their drives either, tbh - they just don't fit into the two categories i use which is "cheapest i'll buy" and "most expensive i'll buy" so i havent bought any since a 275?GB many years ago that still works

The big issue is that everyones judging drives based on how the previous gens performed when many brands halved their TBW's in the early covid years - those drives are still going strong while ones bought 6 months later can already be dead since they did the parts juggling bullshit


If you have two drives with similar performance and ones got greater than double the estimated lifespan, you'd need a damned compelling reason to choose the less reliable model
Paying $8 more for 45% of the TBW just seems... not sane.

$61 Team GX2 512GB: 400TBW
$69 Crucial MX500 500GB: 180TBW

 

[lexluthermiester]

And then put the external enclosure on a mousepad, which absorbs any and all vibrations

Yes, this! Very good advice. Any soft material would work. I use foam pads, doubled up for all of my main external drives. See below.

With the way they build them in recent years, it's tech alright!! Wi-fi, smart washing machines with log in

I hate that crap... Appliances don't need the internet.

 

[Night]

I hate that crap... Appliances don't need the internet.

There are some advantages. You can turn on the AC when you're heading home, when a timer is not the best solution. I'm keeping track of power consumption for my Glamox space heater through the app, I can always adjust the temperature at any time when I'm not at home. On the other hand, I see no use of my washing machine having WiFi connection. You can download some new washing programs and keep track of the tub and filter cleaning, or start/delay washing.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You can turn on the AC when you're heading home, when a timer is not the best solution. I'm keeping track of power consumption for my Glamox space heater through the app, I can always adjust the temperature at any time when I'm not at home.

Sorry, but that's silliness.

 

[R-T-B]

Sorry, but that's silliness.

Preferences man.

Though it becomes a siliness when the "everything with a webstack" vendor drops firmware security a year in and your air conditioner starts trying to freeze you to death for the internet lulz.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Though it becomes a siliness when the "everything with a webstack" vendor drops firmware security a year in and your air conditioner starts trying to freeze you to death for the internet lulz.

This is why it's silliness. I want my appliances to work the way their supposed to WITHOUT all the internet/wireless connected crap/fluff.

 

[phill]

I don't have any major problems with their drives either, tbh - they just don't fit into the two categories i use which is "cheapest i'll buy" and "most expensive i'll buy" so i havent bought any since a 275?GB many years ago that still works

The big issue is that everyones judging drives based on how the previous gens performed when many brands halved their TBW's in the early covid years - those drives are still going strong while ones bought 6 months later can already be dead since they did the parts juggling bullshit


If you have two drives with similar performance and ones got greater than double the estimated lifespan, you'd need a damned compelling reason to choose the less reliable model
Paying $8 more for 45% of the TBW just seems... not sane.

Completely get that @Mussels I've never really been buying them to be honest but I've honestly never even looked at the TBW rating whenever I've bought some SSDs which maybe I should start to!

I've just gone with Crucial mostly due to price and the fact I've never had any issues with them, as soon as that bites me on something, I might eventually change but I've not had any issues as such yet. Can definitely get if you've had issues in the past why you'd be more careful in what you buy. Again, the $8 more for the increase write capability is insane, wouldn't pass it up if I was looking at things properly

 

[R-T-B]

This is why it's silliness. I want my appliances to work the way their supposed to WITHOUT all the internet/wireless connected crap/fluff.

If vendors would support them it'd be fine, but that's increasingly a pipe dream.

 

[Valantar]

If vendors would support them it'd be fine, but that's increasingly a pipe dream.

It's just fundamentally impossible within a profit-oriented business model - no appliance has the type of margins required to meet corporate profit margin targets and simultaneously finance security update development for the 2-3 decades it might be useful for. It just isn't doable. The only way around this would be to mandate a single central hardware platform with some sort of collaborative/open source/publicly funded development.

Of course they'd much rather you replaced your dishwasher and washing machine every 3 years to ensure software support (and massive profitability (and even further environmental disaster)).

 

[R-T-B]

The only way around this would be to mandate a single central hardware platform with some sort of collaborative/open source/publicly funded development.

Basically already all run linux, so halfway there anyhow.

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

It's just fundamentally impossible within a profit-oriented business model - no appliance has the type of margins required to meet corporate profit margin targets and simultaneously finance security update development for the 2-3 decades it might be useful for. It just isn't doable. The only way around this would be to mandate a single central hardware platform with some sort of collaborative/open source/publicly funded development.

Of course they'd much rather you replaced your dishwasher and washing machine every 3 years to ensure software support (and massive profitability (and even further environmental disaster)).

Or monthly subscriptions to use any connected services. A new vehicle I bought a year ago will lose some fairly important features here in a few days unless I pay up.

Not a fan of that either.

 

[1freedude]

Or monthly subscriptions to use any connected services. A new vehicle I bought a year ago will lose some fairly important features here in a few days unless I pay up.

Not a fan of that either.

We look forward to your post about your latest tech purchase

 

[lexluthermiester]

If vendors would support them it'd be fine, but that's increasingly a pipe dream.

Exactly. It is an untenable condition long term..

 

[Valantar]

Exactly. It is an untenable condition long term..

Even pretty short term, I'd say.

 

[Mussels]

Sorry, but that's silliness.

I use an IR blaster thats internet connected to control my AC and heating remotely - mostly its good to confirm things are off when no ones home, but being able to adjust things from bed is great


my vacuum has wifi, but i see zero reason to use it - i can see why LG want it to get user info on what corners they can cut on future models, but i cant see any benefit to me

 

[gffermari]

I just wanted a simple NAS to play with.
It came with a 4TB IronWolf. Another one is on the way.

 

[wolf]

Cache ya later 5900X, you did well.

 

[jormungand]

Can it run Doom?

you meant, Crisis>???

New Bosch washing machine coming in a few days....
It's tech right?

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definitely !! I can see Skynet at work in that Washer, next terminator soon....

 

[The red spirit]

you meant, Crisis>???

Doom > Crysis

 

[lexluthermiester]

Cache ya later 5900X, you did well.

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For what I do, the 5900X is the right choice. However, for gaming you made a good move.

 

[R-T-B]

For what I do, the 5900X is the right choice. However, for gaming you made a good move.

I have a 5950x and have to remind myself everytime a x3d temptation comes along, that 8 cores would tank my compile times... sigh. The woes of the gaming and work machine being one and the same.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have a 5950x and have to remind myself everytime a x3d temptation comes along, that 8 cores would tank my compile times... sigh. The woes of the gaming and work machine being one and the same.

Right!

 

[The red spirit]

I have a 5950x and have to remind myself everytime a x3d temptation comes along, that 8 cores would tank my compile times... sigh. The woes of the gaming and work machine being one and the same.

You make it sound like 5950X is garbage in games, while it's clearly not. There's no benefit for you to switch to X3D even for gaming, not even with RTX 4090 overclocked until it explodes.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You make it sound like 5950X is garbage in games, while it's clearly not.

True, neither the 5950X nor the 5900X are bad performers. However, the 5800X3D is next level performance for many games and gaming use-case-scenario's. The the per-core boost difference can be worth the downgrade in cores.

There's no benefit for you to switch to X3D even for gaming, not even with RTX 4090 overclocked until it explodes.

Not true.