I don't choose. To continue living is just the default, and time keeps passing, so I'm alive by inaction...

This was like when the Republicans refused to vax only to end up killing themselves

Unfortunately, that's not the full picture. People got infected and transmitted to a lot of other people, and a lot of innocents ended up dead.

When it comes to bird flu, more people being inconsequential about it, and deliberately getting it gives the virus a greater chance to develop mutations, and maybe affecting us in the long run. This is a really dangerous thing, and those people are doing something that puts us all in risk.

Since arch is a rolling release distro, can't you just download an older iso from when it was below 1gb, install it and then update the system?

Check this page: https://archlinux.org/releng/releases/

Seeing functional risc-v devices popping up is so awesome! Not long ago, they were highly experimental. When I eventually find myself in need of a new device, I will probably get one with a risc-v processor.

I feel personally attacked lol

Running linux and foss software on my shitty hardware since ever

One of the implications is the development and popularization of the RISC-V architecture, which is open and can open the market for more competition and less monopolies, among other things.

Maybe not directly, but there was a demand for "portable computers", a better input system for phones, better portable cameras, a way to readily access the internet anywhere, among several other things. The smartphone became popular so quickly because it concretized all of those latent demands into a single device.

The good thing about forums is that, once a problem is addressed, the solution remains there and is indexed by search engines for everyone to see. You can say anything about forums, but I doubt you never fixed some issue by looking at some old forum thread, without even having to bother anyone.

Because asking and answering too many questions was exactly how they ended up with a bullet hole in their monitor.

You don't eat blue cheese because you don't like the mold
I don't eat blue cheese because I can't afford it

We are not the same

Don't be hasty, there's still 16% of this year to be lived.

I don't remember the name of the effect, but it seems to happen a lot of times when newer technologies makes things consume less. People end up consuming more, either by increase of size, duration of use of using more of the thing.