• DMs everywhere wince in sympathy.
  
  
  
  
  
• Is the budget Google Pixel 3a the Pixel to get yes. (Ars Technica)
  
  What about the Google Pixel 3a XL also yes.  (AnandTech)
  
  Headphone jack - ding.  Expandable storage - rude buzzer sound.  64GB is it.  So there's no way I'd even consider getting one, but YKMMV.
  
  
• I warned you about those 128TB micro SD cards.  (AnandTech)
  
  Toshiba just lost 6EB of flash - six million terabytes.  They had a power failure at their facility in Japan that brought five fab buildings to a crashing halt.
  
  These factories draw enormous amounts of power, so backup generators just aren't feasible.  They have dedicated redundant feeds from the grid, and huge battery banks to smooth out voltage drops and brief interruptions.
  
  Unfortunately in this case the power failure lasted 13 minutes longer than the batteries, and most of the wafers in the production line - which is a month's worth of chips at any given time - will have to be scrapped.
  
  
• Thankfully, Micron and other manufacturers are churning out flash as fast as the market can soak it up.  (AnandTech)
  
  This might stabilise prices for a while, but there's enough supply that it's unlikely to provoke price increases.
  
  
• Google says just because you're paying a monthly fee and don't really own anything and can't take your games anywhere else and are restricted to a very limited library doesn't mean you should expect a discount hey why isn't anyone using our new Stadia service did we tell you about Stadia EOL June 2022 no refunds sorry read the fine print.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I might have elaborated on official statements there slightly.
  
  
• How the DOJ scapegoated Backpage.  (TechDirt)
  
  Though...  Is this story any more accurate than the ones TechDirt gets so obviously wrong, or is it just tickling my personal biases?
  
  
• Like this one: Trump administration considers outlawing encryption.  (TechDirt)
  
  First, no, they didn't.  Second, they can't; it would have to go through Congress.  Third, it's impossible.
  
  First Rule of Online Publishing: A hate click is still a click.
  
  
• The Radeon RX 5950, 5900, 5850, and 5800 graphics cards have not leaked the headline is a lie.  (WCCFTech)
  
  What happened was a range of model numbers were registered as trademarks, from RX 5500 up to RX 5950XT.  No shader counts, memory sizes, bandwidth numbers, clock speeds, dates, prices, nothing.
  
  
• Slack fell over.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Productivity skyrocketed.
  
  
• YouTube's demonetisation rampage has now hit ClownFish TV, a small and completely inoffensive pop culture channel.  (One Angy Gamer)
  
  We apologise unreservedly to neurally impoverished muskrats everywhere for unfairly comparing them with social network management.
  
  
• 24G SAS is a thing.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Has it been out for a while and I missed it because all the noise was about NVMe?  Apparently not; the article ends with "24G SAS is still not here yet."  Oh, good.
  
  It's nearly as fast as a standard PCIe 3.0 x4 connection but with better switching and backplane support.  Of course, consumer drives are still stuck at SATA 3 despite low-end SSDs having been able to saturate that link for years.  I still say that USB is the way to go in the consumer space, particularly now that USB 4 is on its way.
  
  
• That'll do, Ars Technica.  That'll do.
  
  They A/B test headlines, so if you don't get the good one, it's Florida LAN.

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