This. The way I think of it, if data isn’t backed up, that data doesn’t really exist. At a bare minimum, keep important data backed up in two separate locations. Ideally you should follow the 3-2-1 backup rule (a main drive, backup drive, and cloud backup fulfill the requirements).
Not sure how well that would work at orbital velocity, unfortunately. At least the ground would get a nice fireworks show!
Yeah I recently picked up a Pixel 6 Pro and the fingerprint reader works well. You do need to press down somewhat firmly sometimes, maybe people aren’t and that’s why they’re having issues?
No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol’ dd does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).
The other 20% is mostly high quality however, and I’m sure they’d filter out the heavily downvoted crud.
Both “color” and “colour” are valid spellings.
Would be a bit hard to notice if you’re dead, but yeah (assuming you’re magically spared or something).
The main question is unanswerable as it couldn’t happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.
On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other’s orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.
The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they’re temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.
All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There’s simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.
I’m sure there are some other effects that I haven’t thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.
Pretty much every web browser except Firefox is just Chromium with some extra crap slapped on it, they’re all functionally the same.
The article says 10MB/s minimum write speed, which would take 4.6 days to transfer 4TB, so… yeah. Even with the “max theoretical transfer rates” of 104MB/s (which is probably just read if anything) that’s still almost 11 hours.
That’s just Micro SD cards.
Yeah, it was my first time seeing totality with clear skies (clouded over for the 2017 eclipse) and it was beautiful.
I had a Canon T5i with a 600mm telephoto lens on a tracking mount, and used Magic Lantern (a firmware addon) to automatically take bracketed exposures at intervals of a few seconds. It let me actually enjoy the eclipse instead of trying to take photos during it. I actually got a much better photo of the solar prominences at my lowest exposure, though they are still overexposed somewhat. (Who knew they’re that bright?) 
I was in a random park in Jonesboro, Texas. Only one other group of people was there, probably because it’s such a small town. I was staying in Belton and had to drive about an hour to get there (Belton was predicted to be cloudy) but I got up early enough that there was virtually no traffic.
Nice shot! Totality was a true sight to behold, but partial eclipses are really awesome too.
SSHing into my less powerful machines takes a good few seconds, so I’m not sure if I’d notice an extra 500ms. For the more powerful ones that are basically instant it would be much more noticeable.
Always a relevant xkcd.
A $300 RFID read/writer? Seems way too expensive, I remember buying one for under $10 for my Arduino a while back.
Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you’re going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.