Summary of the week of November 1, 2021

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Backblaze third quarter statistics

Backblaze has published its quarterly statistics on hard drive reliability. Seagate drives are once again at the top in terms of the number of failures per 100 units.

Hexus disappears

The popular British modding site, Hexus, is shutting down after 23 years. The forums will remain active.

Firefox 94 available

Version 94 of Mozilla's browser comes with customizable color themes. Additionally, it is possible to free up memory used by open tabs without having to close them.

Consumerism is in mourning

The CEO of ARM has said that the chip shortage will cause a consumer electronics supply crisis this holiday season.

500TB optical disc

A group of researchers has created a storage medium that can store 500TB on a disc the size of a CD. The read speed would be 230kB/s, so it would take 69 years to read the entire disc.

Linux is not Windows

This 2005 article explains how there are those who think (or thought) that Linux is an open-source Windows and the paradox that occurs when someone expects Linux to be identical to Windows but better (if it's identical, it can't be better or worse).

List of Alder Lake reviews

In this Reddit thread, they have published a long list of reviews, both in text and video, of the twelfth generation of Core processors.