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> A user may make a typo in the email, and that email might still be a valid email know to work (but for another, unrelated person).

That won't verify. The issuer should check if the request has valid session cookies for the e-mail-address that should be verified. This also implies that it just won't work for any service that uses sessions with a short timeout.

5W while browsing is already less efficiënt than my old laptop with a Zen 2 CPU (and most of the power is consumed by the display). Newer CPU's or SoC's should do quite a bit better than that.

Asrock Rack and Supermico sell AM4/AM5 motherboards with support for ECC UDIMMs. Other vendors might state official support on workstation-class motherboards, and in general it might work even on motherboards without official support.

Most SSD's will provide metrics that are quite readable for estimating the lifetime left for the drive. Most nvme-drive expose a line with 'Percentage used' in the nvme log (just use smartctl to read the nvme log). With sata-drives it is a bit more hit or miss, but the couple of drives I have lying around at the moment record wear leveling in Wear_Leveling_Count, which does provide the raw wear leveling count and the lifetime left as normalized VALUE.

> Both Intel and AMD are providing huge efficiency gains, too. Rumors show the new i7 13700T Raptor Lake part can have a 35W mobile TDP and still outperform a Ryzen 7 5800X: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-13700t-raptor-lake-a...

Don´t let the TDP of T-models fool you. Power consumption to reach boost clocks can peak up to 100W for T-models of the previous generation, and the 13700T probably needs to run close to that to outperform a 5800X.

Toshiba was not merged in to HGST, and is still an independent manufacturer.

At least hard drives still have decent seek times. Load time optimization for consoles with optical drives was another league: a single seek across the disk could lead to waiting a second longer on the loading screen.

Battery life depends a lot on which laptop you buy. With an old Elitebook Revolve with an Intel 5200U and a new Envy X360 with an AMD 4700U the battery life on Linux is about the same when compared to reviews on Windows. Especially the Envy has some issues with running Linux, but battery life isn't one of them.

The large Toshiba drives they're using are enterprise drives. A couple of weeks ago these drives were among the cheapest (€/TB) drives to get here in the Netherlands, so I assume Backblaze just bought them because of their price.

> Cross-Platform - You can reliably stay up-to-date on discord from basically every device you own with reliable notifications

Until there's a client update. When the client detects that an update is available, it asks to apply the update without any way to start without the update. So far, I had 2 weeks this year without the desktop client, waiting for the update to appear in the package repositories.

This is a case where you should read with care, and notice the difference between Gb and GB. The chip from 2013 that you mention, has a capacity of 8Gb = 1GB. Chips with a capacity of 16Gb are indeed very common, because manufactures put 8 of them on a RAM-module with a capacity of 16GB.

Resilvering on ZFS in not linear, it is quite some random IO.

A ST8000DM004 is capable of linear reads above 200MB/s, and a normal drive should be able to handle the same speeds with linear writes.

I would not recommend those drives for use with ZFS from my own experience: one of my drives disappeared after 1.5TB of writes while moving a dataset, and only went online again (with a SMART failure) after a power cycle.

You can get a Tyan Tomcat EX or one of the ASRock Rack AM4 boards that have an Aspeed AST2500 chip to provide remote management. However, it might be difficult (and expensive) to get 4 32GB UDIMMs to work properly.