“We f’d up, but hopefully it won’t fail before the end of the warranty period. Hopefully.”

It has: the pixel owners. It’s a beta tester program.

Yeah, Sandisk was good back the day when it was memory card & pendrive only. I personally lost two of two of their SSDs over the years due to not having sanity checks (do not EVER even start up Samsung SSD utilities in their presence. The migration tool kills it quite dead. I’ve never seen any other SSD cross-brand interactions like that.)

Awfully convenient time for selling the whole brand though.

Replace the solar with a wind turbine and you never need to charge it in Ireland. :D

My only real complain would be probably slightly lower safety, and most of THAT is down to meeting 1,5-2 ton SUV/etc that are driven by a single person with basically zero luggage 99.9%.