Nobody in the regular world has ever been effected by not having ECC.

Based on the article, it looks like at least 10% of crashes are caused by not having ECC.

Linus suffers from not understanding normal people.

Well, you are demonstrating that you’re an expert people person so I’ll just have to take your word.

Exactly, one of the ‘nerd edge cases’ (as the now removed comment mentioned) is that I use ZFS on my NAS.

There’s lots of checksumming and encryption. Errors in that process are not acceptable and could potentially cause data loss. Since the one of the points of using ZFS is the enhanced data integrity, not using ECC means losing out on that guarantee.

You can’t.

Social media is public, period.

If you want private social interactions then use end-to-end encrypted communication services.

Any oppressive regime will have multiple tools that can identify your access to social media services and determine who the human is behind the keyboard. Assume that everything you post on public social media has your real life name and address attached to it.

Unless you’re an expert and taking extreme measures (and you wouldn’t be asking this question if you were such an expert) then anonymous access to online services with respect to a sovereign power with an intelligence service is impossible.

I don’t know about you, but I use my RAM for a lot more than a browser.

I value my finite time more than I value a few Watt-Hours.

You could go to your local library and read through a bunch of books rather than using Google if you’re interested in more power savings ideas.

The joke is this, but updated with modern memes

I still have my great grandfather’s torches and pitchforks in the family armory, so I’m ready for the next stage also.

The Father -> Richard Stallman

The Son -> Linus Torvalds

The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux

The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux

Uhh, it’s GNU/Linux actually

Another tip: Be careful linking images from hosts that you don’t control.

You don’t want to come back and find your funny.gif picture is now displaying a goatse.

After discovering the robbery, the bank installed doors and locks.

The earth has enough microplastics.

I’ve heard that the best billionaires really love Greenland, just let them roam free in northern Greenland (wouldn’t want to annoy any actual Greenlanders). Don’t worry about them, these Masters of Industry will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and have a fire and shelter in no time.

I’m waiting for the Rust re-write.

We know that the chosen one is out there, they have yet to make themselves known.

A meme? Lying? I can’t believe it,

3/3/26 never forget

Primarily, there are a few EAC games that haven’t checked the ‘Linux allowed’ box yet.

They’re giving good advice but, in my opinion, they are using the reputation of Mullvad to ‘privacy-wash’ their public image by associating with a trusted brand.

WhatsApp is not a secure messaging service, your messages are not private. Being end to end encrypted doesn’t mean anything if both ends are compromised by having the app installed on them (or being vendor rooted).

I understand and agree with you.

Various companies go out of their way to make plugin-ins for the platform that everyone uses and everyone uses the platform because of the additional support that it receives on account of being the most popular.

Microsoft is the one that ultimately benefits by being able to make anti-consumer decisions because each individual decision by Microsoft isn’t as bad as the friction required to switch and learn to a new IDE. Microsoft can move the product in any direction that they want as long as they do it in steps tiny enough to not scare people away from their platform.

In the end we’re the frogs that they’re boiling, eventually you gotta jump out of the pot.

Nobody is deploying these at scale to harvest water to sell, it’s way too expensive. Probably even more so than desalination.

These kinds of devices would be useful in areas where they didn’t have access to preexisting infrastructure. There the comparison would be between operating one of these devices or air lifting water in by helicopter. The fact that it’s expensive isn’t as much a concern when the alternative is to pay for airlift delivery.

Mutual Funds: We sell Bliss*

*manufactured from the finest ignorance

It’s probably being A/B tested and you’re not in the test group yet.

Or, alternatively, OP is from an area that’s been designated as having an increased risk of fake accounts and these extra measures are being deployed selectively.