Yes.

Whether Intel fucked up by saying “oh yeah works great up to 105” if that isn’t actually true is another question, as I mentioned.

I’d expect it to throttle before reaching max operating temperature

Again, you misunderstand. The max operating temperature is where Intel has stated that the CPU can safely operate for extended periods of time, including accounting for situations like thermal runaway (though ideally they engineer the chip that that doesn’t happen in the first place).

If that situation does occur, the chip attempts to throttle at 105, and if that fails then it presumable halts at whatever the protection threshold is before it hits the actual damage point, as I said.

Within the realm of possibility. Especially if you treat them harshly (lots of start-stop, and low airflow and high temps). Backblaze collects and publishes data, and the AFR for Seagate is slightly higher than other manufacturers, but not what I’d consider dangerous.

Then you misunderstand the spec. That’s the max operating temperature, not the thermal protection limit. It throttles at 105 so it doesn’t hit the limit at 115 or whatever and shut down. I can’t find a detailed spec sheet that might give an exact figure.

Not words, punctuation and composition. Your comment is difficult to read.

All manufacturers have bad batches. Use diversity and keep backups.

The article (or one of the linked ones) says the max design temperature is 105°C, so it doesn’t throttle until it hits that.

Which makes me think it should be able to sustain operating at that temperature. If not, Intel fucked up by speccing them too high.

I don’t think porn sites in other countries care about our laws.

Yes. Or, if it’s a lot of data, hand-carried on a hard drive.

For a household? Yeah that’s tolerable. For a couple dozen people living and working, it’s tighter.

Yes. There are no fiber links to Antarctica. Nor copper. It’s all satellite. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

It is quite real. The satellite links are like 10 Mbps. You go far enough south, and you cant even hit the satellite because it’s over the horizon. There aren’t any high-speed polar satellites. Companies don’t send their satellites that far south because there are too few customers to justify the cost.

That’s changing with starlink, though, since those ones are in a polar orbit.

Yeah, you’ll have to have a bypass list for some sites.

Honestly, unless you’re actually on a very limited connection, you probably won’t see any actual value from it. Even if you do cache everything, each site hosts their own copy of jQuery or whatever the kids use these days, and your proxy isn’t going to cache that any better than the client already does.

Yes, Windows peer to peer update downloads work over LAN. (In theory, I’ve never verified it.)

HTTP caching still works fine, if your proxy performs SSL termination and reencryption. In an enterprise environment that’s fine, for individuals it’s a non-starter. In this case, you’d want to have a local CDN mirror.

They’re not required if you disable or block them. In an enterprise environment, you deploy a local update server, like I said.

As far as your personal devices are concerned, though, you’re on your own. If your iPhone refuses to do something because it wants an update, you’ll just have to wait to do that thing until you get home. We don’t have the bandwidth to spare.

Local mirrors and caching proxies.

I’ve worked in an environment like this. We had a local server for Windows and Mac updates. Direct updates were blocked. It’s a solved problem, you just need developers to participate.

It’s probably possible right now.

It helped me a ton this summer learn gardening basics and pick out local plants which are now feeding local pollinators. That is something i never had the motivation to tackle from scratch even though i knew i should.

Given the track record of some models, I’d question the accuracy of the information it gave you. I would have recommended consulting traditional sources.

This isn’t just being said, it’s being shown with data.

Depends on your threat model.