• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    No turbulence while taking a piss or shit

    Train bathrooms seem specifically designed to discourage using the bathroom while riding a train.

    Also I had a laptop die from the constant vibrations destroying the hard disk drive.

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      22 days ago

      Also I had a laptop die from the constant vibrations destroying the hard disk drive.

      Well, that’s pretty much an issue of the past now.

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          22 days ago

          Ok, but it’s rather specific case if you were still using a laptop with an HDD last year.

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            22 days ago

            There are still a few use cases… mainly price. A 4TB 2.5" HDD can be had for less than a bottom-of-the-barrel 2TB NVME.

            But I would definitely hesitate to bring spinning drives on a bumpy ride.

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          22 days ago

          This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
          But I don’t know the details of your situation, obviously, and it’s not impossible.

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              22 days ago

              I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

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                22 days ago

                … I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They’re good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.