I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
But I don’t know the details of your situation, obviously, and it’s not impossible.

I have heard that China has made significant efforts in this area, but that really is a massive change in just over a decade.
Meanwhile, the UK will take as long to build a single high-speed line.

Pro is still the same desktop app

SketchUp was intended for this purpose and is so incredibly easy to get started with.
Unless something has changed, it definitely is for sketching only, as it lacks a lot of advanced functionality found in other CAD programs.

No they’re not supposed to be piling it up

Design lead wants parting earth and flowing lava. Budget dictates static assets and baked in animations.

So you were questioning a password limit of 256 chars.
Let’s say we do not impose a limit because we’re not worried about anything. We now get hit by a botnet trying to create accounts or login in thousands at the same time.

Say we’re using Argon2id. This is obviously subjective to hw and parameters, but let’s say 8k characters take 5 seconds of (1) cpu time on your server.
Now multiply this by 1000 attempts a second, and all your hardware does is calculate hashes.

The input limit of Argon2 specifically is much, much higher than that at 2^32-1 bytes, at which point you might as well just take it offline yourself.

If hashing of 256-character passphrases, or even 2560-character passphrases

If we impose no limit, why would the attacker limit themselves to 2560 chars?

Like an individual dev can decide to make random changes to bank systems lol

Hashing takes up cpu time

These policies typically come from top management. They’d have to fire themselves.

I’m stuck on Fusion 360. So annoying to have that one doorstop from freedom.

And might as well, not like the fucking search works anyway, even with web search disabled. At least on W10.

That’s incredibly short-sighted. Traditions are part of what makes up people’s culture.
Some should be made away with for sure, but I disagree with the blanket statement.

Can’t ‘fix’ hundreds of years of tradition

Free with a large userbase. Pretty clear why that’s the preference at the moment, as bad as it is.

I don’t think that’s true, at least for companies.
Industry standard or even company standard means you need a very critical reason to switch because doing so is very costly in ways that don’t really affect an individual or a small team.
This is why large corps often still use decades old software that may be terrible by that point, but impossible to move away from.

They wanted to feel the success of the twitter rebrand first-hand

Just anywhere on the Internet, really

I used to laugh at these, but I’ve just been asked to help with an issue where I work and what do you know… long story short it’s not funny to me anymore