It depends on the use case. I use teamgroup high capacity SSD drives for short load things on my homelab but they are super slow for any kind of extended writing due to a number of factors such as cache writes. I had to warranty two of 5 that died within a few weeks but it has been fine once the duds were replaced and they were easy about honoring the warranty.

Again, fine for a homelab but I wouldn’t use them in my gaming rig where speed matters. For things like readimg of stored video and Linux isos, they work pretty good.

This man taught us that heaters are indeed about as efficient as you can get in turning energy into heat through a little thing called resistance.

Homelab is so 2025. We’re all building EMF pulsing devices in 2026 in preparation of the redacted.

Higher sales tax but sane policy like GDPR and workers rights by comparison in competition are a strong pull for me in this. I don’t hate the idea so long as we don’t receive just all the hardships on the bottom while the wealth class get all the benefits. Had Canada actually kept their budget in order and not just pissed it away into debt when they had the chance? I might be more for sovereignty but I’d definitely take advantage of all the additional opportunity to contribute to brain drain if it made sense. I actually think they would find difficulty in keeping Canadians staying in Canada if this was an option.

Even within Canada I feel trapped by low rent in a high cost of living area and I don’t want to gamble on leaving the only leg up I have in the world. Leaving this situation could open me up to so many jobs but the value at the end of the day doesn’t make sense because I’d be starting over in rent costs at the current market rate. So I can’t make it make sense. This hurts my earning potential lifelong but what good is earning potential if it all ends up in someone else’s pocket while I take higher risk positions.