I’ve always wanted to have to clean hardened calc/lime out of my CPU cooler!

Based on anecdotal evidence, “I refuse” may be more common than you think. I live in Switzerland, and out of all the expats I know who have been here a long time (20+ years), a large percentage (over half) of them still can’t speak German. At all. Like, they can maybe say “thank you” but that’s about the extent of their vocabulary, and many of them actually seem to be quite proud of the fact that they’ve made absolutely zero attempt to integrate into the local community or culture.

Now, although I’m fully aware that there are a hell of a lot of differences between Switzerland and the US, it still wouldn’t be at all surprising to me if there were large groups of immigrants in the US who similarly resist learning English.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999…

I wouldn’t be so sure about the lifetime - spinning up and spinning down put far more stress on the drive components than simply spinning at a constant rate.

RSI?

…how is smoking supposed to be connected to race? In any way?

…are you trying to imply that all neurodivergent people are LGBT+?

+1 for Debian, if you just want a stable, reliable system and don’t care about the latest and greatest features there is no better choice

F.L.U.D.D.

that’s an obscure reference, i never see anyone talking about that game

Only if one thread modifies it while another one is iterating over it, if two threads try to modify the list at once there isn’t any kind of synchronization and it really could break your list.

ArrayList isn’t thread-safe, though…

You can, but it’ll be a pretty one-sided conversation

no that just sounds like a bug

sorry, i shower twice a day and wear deodorant but i just sweat so damn much that i end up smelling within a few hours no matter what :(

they’re still pretty RISC, using fixed-width instructions and fairly simple encoding. certainly a hell of a lot simpler than the mess that is x86-64

That said, there are “active” USB extension cables which draw current from the power lines and use it to boost the signal along the data lines

Michelangelo’s David is a well-known marble statue which was carved using a chisel.

/r/homelabsales and /r/hardwareswap

Yeah, although the neat part is that you can configure how much replication it uses on a per-file basis: for example, you can set your personal photos to be replicated three times, but have a tmp directory with no replication at all on the same filesystem.

What exactly are you referring to? It seems to me to be pretty competitive with both ZFS and btrfs, in terms of supported features. It also has a lot of unique stuff, like being able to set drives/redundancy level/parity level/cache policy (among other things) per-directory or per-file, which I don’t think any of the other mainstream CoW filesystems can do.