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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I used to buy external drives when they went on sale, and I’d shuck the case off of them. In my opinion the quality of the drives in those externals went downhill sometime in the last several years. You might get lucky and get a drive meant for a data center, but I’ve stopped playing that lottery.

    These days I just buy retired but warrantied data center drives from sellers on eBay. They’re big, tested, reasonably priced and the seller will replace them within their warranty period if they do die (I usually see 3-5 year as the warranty time). So far I haven’t had any of these die in the last couple of years. Seagates used to fail me constantly thought. I’m now down to only one Seagate still working.



  • It’s very picky about what it will allow as prompts. It won’t let me use “iron lung” and it thinks “sarsaparilla” is a foreign language. Anything remotely R-rated like “severed toe” is usually blocked. Anything involving an animal gives you a Pixar-like furry friend, so I couldn’t get much out of “ferret in bathtub” that resembled anything from TBL.

    I tried making the drink in the OP photo a White Russian, but it kept giving me a white bowling ball instead. It will sorta generate the drink on its own though.

    It did not understand what I meant about a coffee can on the cliffside. It kept giving me canned coffee drinks instead of ground coffee. When you can get canned ground coffee out of it, it insists on putting loose grounds around the outside of the can.

    I may keep trying, but it does burn battery life pretty quickly.