My HDDs run 24/7 without spin up btw. I’m just talking about the costs. My drives don’t fail that much as yours. The recent drives that failed were WD Blue that were very old and only used for backups. And yes, all backups were still readable, even the drive was reported as failed. Compare it to SSDs that often fail “spectacularly”.
There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don’t care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.
I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.
That’s why it’s also called Curry-Howard isomorphism.
Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can’t be, either.
Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it’s crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.
I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.
I mostly use lightweight virtualization with containers and jails at home. I have one BHyVe VM, but I plan to eliminate virtualization completely. It’s a waste of resources for my setup.
I have never needed iMessage in my life and I haven’t even seen it. Proprietary messaging apps are not trustworthy.
I know enough about XMPP or earlier called Jabber to not to run it anymore, after years of self-hosting Prosody.
You just need a client like Element.io or other clients. If you don’t want to connect to the main server matrix.org which is quite slow, you choose one from the federation.
People who own a server and know how to do administration tasks can install their own instance and attach it to the federation. You can use one of the Matrix server applications for self-hosting.
XMPP needs a connected network socket which is pretty bad in a time of mobile services. The 90s are over.
Thanks for the lesson… haha
Of course, but OP wanted to implicate that this worm stays local in a network. You need an USB stick to carry it over.
It’s called entertainment. It makes as much sense to mix up addiction with games, as with NFL, football, TV, movies etc.
I honestly hear the first time about this. Who sends you share requests?
You’re 27 years late, according to my watch.
Most of my text files are from Unix/Linux systems, because I don’t work much on Windows. So Wordpad is more important than Notepad for me, because the latter one does not handle end-of-lines correctly.
You’re right. So many people to thank here. One thing you cannot deny is that Valve is one of few companies that loves gaming on Linux and it deserves a huge credit.
SimpleX Chat has got many features that these kinds of tools need. It’s also open and focused on security. You’ll need it eventually, if you’re in a hostile environment.
You don’t own games generally. It’s always a license for software use. You may own the game, if you buy the company and the license is fully under its control.
Software is not a product. And there is no guarantee you will be able to run it forever, even if you made a copy of your entire setup. It’s especially the case with Windows, because it’s bound to a specific hardware that will break one day. Microsoft also cares less and less about gamers (see what they do with their operating system for consumers) and they have a way out with XBox. My bet is that Windows is not making money for Microsoft anymore and it will degrade more and more. Gabe knows it and has a strategy against it. If you’re a gamer and want have games on PC, use Linux and support the good cause.