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For SSDs this has historically not been the case, there's no way in hell you could buy a 1TB SSD within $200 a decade ago.

It's not just DNS. I have this rule in my firewall:

udp dport 15600 counter drop comment "Block Samsung TV shenanigans"

So far, it has blocked 20575 packets (constituting 1304695 bytes) in 6 days and 20 hours.

Anticheats can be very invasive, they can theoretically scan all the files inside your computer (whether it is practically done, I don't know but it surely feels like it's been done), take screenshots regularly, send your hardware information, etc. So yeah, if you are someone who takes security seriously...

Ah you got my comment wrong! I didn't mean to suggest Gecko is closed source. I just wanted another web engine that is also open source.

Servo was an experimental ground for Mozilla in some ways (like testing out a new CSS engine and porting it back to Gecko if it works). So it's quite normal for people to be unaware of it, it was not meant for the public.

But later on it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation. Now it's a standalone project and I wish them well. We really need a new FOSS web engine.

I recall reading somewhere the earlier compilers had a hard limit on the length of function names, due to memory constraints.

The modern electronic devices are far more railroaded than it was back in the day tho.

Want to download an application? There's the App Store. No need to download random .exes from sketchy websites (and learn what a "computer virus" is the hard way)

Downloaded a picture? It's instantly inside your gallery. Back then we needed to find a folder called "Download" or "My Documents" using something called the Explorer!

iPhone and Android made a lot of things dumber and easier to take in, but I feel like it had a detrimental effect on digital literacy.

A question is a question... Just answer the damn question without judging it.

Better let someone know what the thing does instead of forcing them to experiment with it and (possibly) break it.

Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.

I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.

If proper SATA ever goes away, I'd wager that there will still be SATA-to-USB adapters on sale. Heck, people still find ways to connect floppy drives to their modern PCs.

I use IPv6 exclusively for my homelab. The pros:

• No more holepunching kludge with solutions like ZeroTier or Tailscale, just open a port and you are pretty much good to go.

• The CGNAT gateway of my ISP tends to be overloaded during the holiday seasons, so using IPv6 eliminates an unstability factor for my lab.

• You have a metric sh*t ton of addressing space. I have assigned my SSH server its own IPv6 address, my web server another, my Plex server yet another, ... You get the idea. The nice thing here is that even if someone knows about the address to my SSH server, they can't discover my other servers through port scanning, as was typical in IPv4 days.

• Also, because of the sheer size of the addressing space, people simply can't scan your network.

This is why I try my damnedest not to write in weakly typed languages.

string + object makes no logical sense, but the language will be like "'no biggie, you probably meant string + string so let's convert the object to string"! And so all hell breaks loose when the language's assumption is wrong.