Funny thing is that the only reason I've found *arrs a few years ago was Netflix deciding to be stupid, making me look at how I can manage my local library better nowadays.

Not just that - intel did dual core CPUs as a response to AMD doing just that, by gluing two cores together. Which is pretty funny when you look at intels 2017 campaign of discrediting ryzen by calling it a glued together CPU.

AMDs Opteron was wiping the floor with intel stuff for years - but not every vendor offered systems as they got paid off by intel. I remember helping a friend with building a kernel for one of the first available Opteron setups - that thing was impressive.

And then there's the whole 64bit thing which intel eventually had to license from AMD.

Most of the big CPU innovations (at least in x86 space) of the last decade were by AMD - and the chiplet design of ryzen is just another one.

Because it does JBOD if the controller supports it. Pretty much none of the controllers you'll find in consumer hardware support that.

There are a lot of Ukrainians and sympathisers in Russia. A terror campaign wouldn't be with drones, but strategically placed explosives.

I don't really care what is was - Russia is fucking lucky that Ukraine was mostly playing nice so far. They could've made the chechen activities inside Russia during the chechen wars look like amateur hour if they really wanted to - and if we don't give them the type of weapons they need to win in the right quantities, with ability and permission to strike airports they use for bombing and supply runs inside of Russia Ukraine eventually might want to.

Just don't buy nvidia (or stuff from any other company openly hostile towards their users)

That sounds more like a compositor problem - typically a client should not have control over where windows are placed, and that X11 allowed that got heavily abused with negative impact on UI. Wayland fortunately fixed that, so it is now up to the compositor where to place windows. Those can send hints, but the compositor is free to ignore them.

In your situation your compositor should remember where to stick the windows.

Take into account that your average police raid will not attempt that - they just don't have the means for that.

If you have managed to become an important enough target that either specialists get called in, or you've managed to become target of three letter agencies or the equivalent in your country you will have been targeted by other attacks to gain access to your data, both software and hardware - and if you have to ask that kind of question here you're very unlikely to successfully defend against them.

This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you'd later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.

I recently had the need for some apple hardware due to customer projects - and ended up buying an air with 16GB of RAM when it was available relatively cheaply.

The keyboard is shit - but keyboards are shit on pretty much any notebook nowadays unfortunately.

Both memory and storage are a problem - the rest is surprisingly nice. I also have a Windows arm notebook from HP, same 16 GB storage issue, but at least the SSD is user replacable.

We should get rid of 8GB base models in general - that's pretty much what you'd expect in a phone nowadays, but not in a computer.

Bourne shell is orders of magnitude worse clusterf*ck than JavaScript, yet it's rarely criticized.

Both have their place. Bourne shell scripts are great as a container for connecting the various tools you have around - and for that kind of relatively simple script is way easier to use than something like Powershell. If you use it for something more complex you're probably an idiot.

Same with Javascript - if you need to annoy someone with popups on a website, or have something dance around in the window it's a great language. If you use it for something else you're probably also an idiot.

I write code, indentation is something that the editor just does automatically. If I want to change indent settings I just mark the complete buffer, press tab, and magic happens.

I've been using python for various stuff for a few years now as well, and the indent thing still annoys me.