• NekuSoulA
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    11 months ago

    I always love seeing that video in the wild, but vibrations affecting performance and vibrations causing damage are two entirely different things, particularly because that performance drop might be the needle parking itself to avoid actual damage.

    As a personal anecdote, I’ve once installed Windows on a laptop while sitting in the back row of a car driving on not-so-great roads and while I wouldn’t recommend it, the laptop was still good years later.

    Speaking of, the entire concept of laptops wouldn’t have worked before SSDs became mainstream if HDDs were actually that fragile.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve once installed Windows

      Oh no, you’ve said the forbidden words on Lemmy! I can hear them coming now…

      “Burn the heretic!”

      *pointing and laughing

      “I use arch, btw”

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        11 months ago

        Well, this took place more than a decade ago, probably even before the above video was made, and I am actually using Arch right now. Still have a Win11 partition though. And another PC with Ubuntu, just to make everyone mad.