I, too, love Backblaze's reports. But they provide no information regarding drive endurance. While I became aware of this with SSDs, HDD manufacturers are reporting this too, usually as a warranty item, and with surprisingly lower numbers than I would have expected.
For example, in the Pro-sumer space, both WD's Red Pro and Gold HDDs report[1] their endurance limit as 550TB/year total bytes "transferred* to or from the drive hard drive", regardless of drive size.
Over 40 yrs ago, I had a programming assignment in college that I wrote in Lisp. My Prof, a non-Lisp-er, asked me to rewrite it, expecting C or Pascal. But I took him through my Lisp code, and was able to argue for the 'A' on that assignment. I might have created a Lisp-er in the process.
And they've done it before[1], about a year ago. This used to be a great source for free (not illegal) content, though it was clear that some links were bad.
Linux Mint comes with Hypnotix that contains free feeds for 974 TV channels world-wide, and 171 US-En Movie channels. Of these are nearly all of Pluto TV's channels, many of the free movie channels available on Roku, and even a few channels I can get over the air.
Given my browser's built-in privacy 'stuff' (plus uBlock Origin and uMatrix), and the block lists in my firewall, the funny thing is that I leak the most PII data watching OTA TV via the HDHomeRun app on my phone (I prefer their app to VLC on my phone). MPA needs to take a time-out, maybe catch up with technology.
Back in the early 2000's, I was involved with bringing up, diagnostics, and bench-marking large-scale supercomputers. Would occasionally tell management, with a day or two of notice, when would be a good time to schedule maintenance, rather than attempting to run customer's application codes. Back then, I was using spaceweather.com, a somewhat simplified and sensationalized version of the spaceweather.gov.
On days when I knew what was coming, it was (almost) fun watching ECC single-bit error counters ticking up across the O(100k) nodes...like watching popcorn pop in a hot pan.
I'd love to A-B these to my trusty old FiiO X5 with Sennheiser HD-650's (at home) or IE8i's (when exercising). Hearing the sound-stage and subtle do-dads buried by lesser set-ups is a pet-peeve of mine.
A very important, perhaps dominant, factor in all of this is how the music was ripped/encoded. Except in my car, for which I did separate rips, I don't bother with MP3-320. For the X5, having 200 CDs ripped via WMA9 locks me in, until I can find a week or two to re-rip to a more modern lossless format.
I grew up on vinyl via my (crazy/rich) older brother's Class A/B stereo. I'm spoiled, and feel sorry for the people today that think MP3-120 is "good enough".
For example, in the Pro-sumer space, both WD's Red Pro and Gold HDDs report[1] their endurance limit as 550TB/year total bytes "transferred* to or from the drive hard drive", regardless of drive size.
[1] See Specifications, and especially their footnote 1 at the bottom of the page: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-r...