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  • That’s where we’re being dragged to. GeForceNOW and the Windows App are already a thing. Apple is pushing hardware subscriptions/leasing and will probably start their own remote service. Hardware prices likely won’t come back to previous levels so those options will start to look more appealing, lowering demand for parts and raising demand for the subscriptions. From there it spirals until owning your own PC will no longer be possible, maybe even illegal if age verification and other surveillance garbage keeps getting forced on us.
















  • Use sg_format to run a low level format on the disk. 512E vs 4kN isn’t going to change much in a homelab environment. If you create a filesystem with 4k clusters, Linux will send 4k wrudte blocks to the disk. The firmware on the disk will write that out into 8 logical disk sectors, usually in a single 4k physical sector. I use my storage mainly for media and there’s no performance difference between my 512E disks and my 4nN disks. I simply don’t have an intense and sensitive enough environment to show the performance gain. I’d say leave the low level formating alone and just write a filesystem on top of it with 4k blocks.