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  Yep. A few months ago the 1TB "King fast" m.2 that came in a $150 refurb tinyQ died. Replacement drive was... I want to say $160? (Locally, needed it ASAP) I should've opened the case up when I got the PC and noticed the obvious knock off/garbage SSD but I can't honestly say I'm surprised.

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  I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store. It's... fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven't been able to figure out what's eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery... I should chec...

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  I used Mint for about a decade. When I upgraded the drives on my desktop RAID from 2TB to 14TB the newest version only recognized 999GB. After some troubleshooting I begrudgingly tried Ubuntu, same thing. I figured Debian would be the same since that's Grandma but I tried anyway. It worked perfect so I've been on Debian for a few years now and haven't noticed any big differences so here I'll stay. Love me some Debian