the reason why it works with (some) 2.5" drives is because theyre often spinning slower or designed to use less power. it’s why sometimes in order to get enough current, you would need a Y splitter to draw power from 2 usb ports if it doesnt have its own power supply.

though assuming internally youre powering it with a sata data and sata power cable, don’t see what that configuration didn’t work. if that one didnt work, id imagine its a dead drive.

for the record, if you’re plugging it into a standard USB-A port, a typical usb A port is 5V 0.5A connection. the drive specifically requires 0.8A if using 5V (as the label says so), so if your adapter is single USB, its not going to properly power it.

when youre using a usb adapter, does the adapter have its own power supply? because standard usb outlets do not provide enough current to power a hard drive of a single usb conmection.

the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers . they arent all going to be willing to take losses

theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.

the browser has historically been one of the most suceptsble vectors of hacking.

theres a reason why most older consoles often have an exploit related to getting access to protected regions of memory via corruption using the browser, and why modern Nintendo and PlayStation consoles do not have a built in browser for consumer use.

the browser is the biggest offender for viruses.

pretty much how I saw it. 10 was a push towards accepting all hardware configurations. 11 put restrictions in the name of security. so even if a user WANTED to upgrade, there’s technically a barrier that Microsoft would block them (albeit that check can be bypassed).

thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

its more akin to the (retired) meta quest pro than the apple vision pro. but 2026. for one obvious example, the passthrough cameras are only grayscale.

rust is a game commonly overrun with hackers who hack to grief other players, as its inherently a pvp survival game that takes a while to build up

slowing down AOSP releases (why Graphene is looking into other phone options). Google is also trying to enforce developer signatures on apps, which would give google the power to kill small developers on 3rd party app stores and ruin sideloading, as you would have to go through google to be verified to make apks.

these are a few example that has popped up in the past year.

last name? no because the last name is soo damn common that it would be impossibly to find someone solely by last name alone.

theres basically one anti conpetitive measure they hold primarily, and its the one that states the listing price of a game must be the same on all platforms policy. stops devs from having a lower listing price on other platforms.

other than that its usually other platforms shooting their selves.

my opinion isn’t based strictly on the header. because to argue that the default is silent mode, when its very reasonable to assume that the middle tier performance mode is the default usecase, because it has a 80W/h battery when compared to typical other handhelds. Steam deck for example uses a 40W/h battery. 17W, which is seeing the chunk of the performance gain, is a very reasonable target for a 80W/h battery. Because it would roughly be equivalent to a steam deck at 10W on its 40W/h battery.

but a game may not necessarily need 13W, thats the point. youre using up more power than what is necessary because the CPU governor doesn’t know if its necessary or not to actually use all 13W.

The steam deck is controlled the same way(has wattage targets), but it understands when its being underused, to use even less resources to maximize battery life.

If you have a car that has gears, where gear 1 is 25, gear 2 is 50 (old cars), it doesn’t mean there aren’t usecases where you want to go 5/10. its unnecessary to always have to hit said target.

the main thing you get back is a better cpu governor to manage power consumption on 2d games. Reviews like the Phawks points out that microsoft kinda handed it off to the handheld makers to optimize for battery life. So in the instances such as getting 8hours of battery life running dead cells because the system doesnt really need to push that much to run the game, the Windows handheld is stuck on a higher performance clock and has a significantly shorter battery life time.

This would be extremely visible if more lighter games are tested, which typically aren’t for reviews like this because its not really fun to show a bunch of games all hitting 60 if you cap framerate.

the bigger wall with switch emulation on android is that mobile companies are terrible at writing gpu drivers when compared to conventional desktop/laptop graphics vendors. its why for example the older snapdragon gen 2/3 outperform their newer snapdragon elite counterparts in emulation.

theres significantly more setup time on mobile because some of the jank doesnt “just work”

ive been using beeper so its a matter if they kill the API in my case. (im surprised they didn’t nuke the API first)

are people expeting devs to infinitely support a game? one that isn’t even on the live service model in the first place?

thats why theres always an ongoing debate on grading homework. what matters more are the exam grades to show if a given person understands a concept, but it runs the riak of more people failing out without the weight of graded homework easing up scores.

back in middleschool, i was basically told i would instantly fail a geometry class if i didnt start doing homework, despite aceing exams. The goal of homework is to teach students more about meeting deadlines, and that message often gets lost in education.

as a person who works in that industry pretty much. the only people buying singles are people who do it internally else its sold on bulk because the money gets split between the ecycler and the company who originally owns the product.

outside of having less processing to deal with per order, a company buying things in bulk is less critical about the condition of a product than an individual end user.