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I mean this in a genuine way, why in your mind those are the two options available? Total anarchy without functioning transit or cameras pointing at drivers?

There are several different ways to control traffic. If privacy is an importanr factor for a culture, they’d rank privacy respecting alternatives higher.

And that anecdote somehow means “never buy used drives, no matter what variables are at play”

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What kind of HDD? for what purpose? For what budget?

“Don’t buy used” is a dumb tip because it means nothing and addresses nothing.

I use a WD Enterprise HDD from 2012. I bought it used. It passes all tests with flying colours, zero issues so far… it keeps a mirror of my backup. It’s not my main backup, it’s a copy of a copy. Guess what? I paid an extremely low price for it as a student on a budget, yet it was already proven useful many times both for the backups but also to keep my torrents seeding for longer, and it if does indeed fail… no biggie, not even my backup is compromised.

There are excellent refurbished HDDs too. Either way, “don’t buy used” is the kind of blanket statement somebody cosplaying as a infosec home lab data specialist comments on Lemmy, but means absolutely nothing and offers no useful advice.

Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD

That’s not a good tip.

Don’t let Nestlé know you have water

Buy more so that their economics and capabilities can be improved so they can sell better for cheaper.

So you do that and I buy when the price makes sense, thanks. Sorry, not paying a 60% premium for three year old hardware so “in the future it can become cheaper for others”

My biggest issue with the alternative phones is I’m not paying a massively inflated price for bad hardware just because it’s using free software, sorry. Same goes for Framework laptops. I will tolerate paying a premium, but everything about the device must match the price tag.