I see my mistake. I was overly focused on airborne data. Malaria hasn’t really changed for the better has it. Thank you.

I stand corrected. Let me adjust my comment. Most viruses, the vast majority, are not deadly to humans. Those that are tend to mutate to become less deadly to humans over time.

Totally 💯

HIV won’t kill you. It weakens your immune system so other diseases kill you.

Uh… Cancer is not an organism with its own genes. Cancer is you baby, you’re just just getting out of control. Viruses sometimes start deadly but they almost always get less deadly over time.

Don’t they usually mutate to less deadly forms? Killing their host isn’t exactly a successful strategy.

Downsides include having to solve lots of captchas or just getting blocked by services. I prefer just booting up Tails and connecting through the VPN with that but give it a try.

ircCloud because my self hosted push notifications were failing and it worked right away.

Irssi before I started depending on push notifications though.

What makes it more of a minefield than email?

Yes and The Underminer from Incredibles

I agree. Premium modern plastic or resin beats metal or glass any day.

Better grip. Better duribiliy. Transparent to radio. Easier to repair or replace. It’s just better.

That’s why I agreed with you. :P

I agree. I didn’t realize we were talking about average users. I thought we were talking about people building NAS.

It can be. It doesn’t have to be. If ECC is too expensive I recommend avoiding ZFS.

If you are planning to use zfs its worth a few extra bucks for ecc.

Do you also prefer to drink water out of the toilet? I know taste is subjective but…

CMD.EXE is eye cancer. Whatever launched when I searched for powershell was a slightly better blue version. What are you using that you actually like?

In which case kBin and Lemmy are fine names. Yeah?

Very true. A lot of the SciComp and ML folks I know use a McBook Air as the keyboard/mouse for their real machine which sits under their desk and eats 1200W while it works.

I have a desktop and 4 laptops, zero tablets, and one phone. Of course they all boot linux by default. But I know I’m an outlier. I hang out with average families. They have maybe one desktop, two to three laptops (of which about half are school chromebooks), a Playstation/Switch/XBox, and one phone per person. Plus the computers they use most are not in their house they are servers in data centers. The machines they possess are really just interfaces to the computers they actually rely on.