Yeah, Apple has built an image of hardware stability, if you want an iPhone, you will be able to get one at MSRP.

That shifts the perspective of Apple from just another company, at the whim of the market, to an institution standing against the market.

The OS should get out of my way as much as possible.

So that means that HDDs will also stay expensive ):

I have a big choice here.

A. Bite the bullet and buy two more 8TB HDDs and complete my NAS as planned.

B. Wait and hope for lower prices.

C. Bite another bullet and run the NAS as a 24TB ZRAID1 instead of a 32TB ZRAID2.

Sigh…

I started building my first server last year, I only need two more 8TB drives to complete my raid ambition

Technically, no, but I don’t want a world with just one browser engine.

I remember the dark days of IE6

And this is relevant how?

If I wanted Blink trash, I would not be using Firefox

Very

uBlock Origin

Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.

Wow, how quickly people forget…

Back in 2011, with kernel 2.8.x, gaming on Linux was nothing like it is today, it required dedication, skills and time.

And at the time I didn’t have the energy to deal with it.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.

An adblocker is part on my security suite on my computer.

Ads can be hijacked to spread malware, and unless the site owner agrees to take both financial and legal liability for the possible dammage caused by their website I will never consider removing my adblocker.

If they agreed to take on the responsibility, I still wouldn’t remove my adblocker, but I would consider it.

Yeah, I made my comment as I am tired of fanboyism, I have daily driven Linux in the past, I was the Linux sysadmin at a major financial institution for years, Linux is awesome!

But please don’t get arrogant and claim it is faultless, with constructive criticism it can only get better.

Right now I am running Windows as my daily, and my work is only in Windows.

I dailied Linux back in the 2.8 days, I remember a class mate having to manually edit the kernel source code to get his USB mobile broadband modem to work, I had modems from another brand, so I only had to run USB mode switcher to get mine working.

I set up Fluxbox from scratch to get a fantastic UI experience on my laptop.

I know Linux.

I switched back to Windows for gaming, and now with W11 and gaming support for Linux, I am looking to move back to Linux.

I am no Windows nor Linux fanboy.

Fair point!

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Cool anecdote

Because it was shit.

I never claimed that everything MS did was good

I don’t know about that, XP, 2000 and 7 was pretty solid.

Let’s not pretend that Linux is without bugs.

It is going to take years to flush this filth out of our system…if ever.

I remember just before this regime took over, experts said that it would take 40 years to reverse the changes that Trump wanted to implement.

That is 40 years of continuous work, 10 possible administrations.

Now, slightly less than a year and a half later, I doubt the current estimate is less than a century.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.

As an IT guy I consider an adblocker an essential part of my computer security suite.

I will not reconsider until there are laws in place forcing website owners to take legal and financial responsibility for any damage sustained to my computer when visiting their site, and loading their ads.

IF the laws are changed like that, I would reconsider getting rid of my adblocker, ai still wouldn’t but I would reconsider the issue.

The issue is that any software is a blackbox when running.

There is no way for a user to know what code is running let alone verifying that a specific code is actually running on a device, combine that with a sector that keeps wanting more data.