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I love driving. HSR is still super nice, because the worst part about driving is long distance trips. Day trip to the hills to drive fun windy roads? Hell yeah. Trip across the US where I spend 9 hours a day driving straight in Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas? Awful. That section of argument never makes any sense to me. “I love driving. Nothing better than sitting in the right lane for 7 hours on a perfectly flat, straight road”. Morons lol

This is my thought as well. The whole point of this system is that if you feel like you have better choices and ability, you are well within your rights to spin up your own instance and manage it, and make your own choices. Just follow the standards, and you should be able to integrate with existing platforms. They are free to defederate, but that’s their call to do so. It’s always been a tradeoff, and one of the big things with Reddit is that, even to a point now, it’s Reddit or nothing. With federated sites, leaving a platform isn’t starting completely over like it is leaving Reddit.

I’m hardly an engineer, but I’d say the less movement the card takes, the better. SD cards are pretty old tech now, so there aren’t many improvements to be made anyway. Cheap card, expensive card, as long as the contacts don’t corroded or constantly get worn, I don’t imagine they fail often. Photographers probably eat through them because of the transfer processes or people using them with phones/handheld games because they’re always inserting/removing them. If it just sits there, it’s just getting power and losing it, so it’s squarely on the internals and no physical wear.

I’ve had the same cheap card in my dashcam for almost 5 years now, and it’s never failed. High and low temps every year, but I attribute it’s longevity to never removing it ever lol.

In my experience it kind of means both. You get more speed obviously, but that comes with better quality materials and control processes at the manufacturer. People expect the $5 SD card to corrupt eventually, they get more upset when the $40 card does.

Additionally, if you eventually want to move, you’ll usually come out ahead a little bit. I was in a popular market, but I think we bought at 220k and sold at 320k. After all was said and done, I think we had a nice 60k profit, and we did not take the highest offer, we took one from a buyer that we knew was a family that would move in. Not a bad consolation prize for a break up, and I think we were only in it for…3 years?

Selling is stressful, but not nearly as much as buying.