A gigabyte of drive space is something like 10-20 cents on a good SSD.

Half of these don’t even handle logging

I see, you haven’t been to the phoronix forum in a while. Enjoy. Comments: systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024

2024 was a great start with the release of Plasma 6, and the Pros of Wayland now generally outweighing the Cons.

I mean when I can take an Arch Linux installation that I forgot about on my server and is now 8 years out of date and simply manually update the key ring and then be up to date

That won’t work, old pacman versions can’t deal with the fact that packages are now zstandard compressed. In fact, the window were you could successful do the update without a whole bunch of additional work was something like a couple of months. Certainly a whole lot less than a year.

That’s my whole point; No, more ports isn’t more better. If you don’t need them they’re just more cost, more holes where water/debris can get into the machine, and more wrong holes to plug the charger into. If you do need them, then buy a machine that has them - there are plenty.

If youre in an office you can be expected to use a dock

Almost every laptop does have a dedicated HDMI port

Show me one architect that is actually dragging along two external 4k displays with their laptop.

If you are a professional with specific needs buy a specific laptop. Frankly there are more than enough laptops that have more ports if that’s what you need. Except even in your example you don’t even need more ports because you can just use the second USB4 port.

Most devices only have 40gbps USB4. Which is still enough for almost all sane use cases. Frankly, if you need multiple 4K monitors get a desktop.

That’s the most straw in a straw man I’ve seen in the whole thread.

Most new laptops have USB-C, A, and SD/micro SD, and HDMI. That’s 95% of all uses.

If you really need more then you just bought the wrong laptop. Get a Thinkpad or framework 16. If you need to interface with old hardware, get a contemporary machine.

I suppose they don’t use their superlatives quite that inflationarily.

The OS would crash entirely before that happens

Those bitflips are probably more likely to skip the section erroneously than waiting for the array to be sorted.

I don’t know, but I think it’s works on Wayland too. Probably something built in.

On Plasma Desktop, pressing Ctrl+Alt+ESC kills anything you click on next, instantly. There is truly nothing you can’t kill that way, even the desktop itself.

I’ve read the comment, but that’s not how taxes usually work. (It is, however, like a lot of people with little knowledge about the topic think tax deductions in general work - which makes me suspicious)

It would take bit more of the than that comment at face value to convince me that apparent law exist(ed)

It really seems like these would be more expensive by more than the tax benefits

Both systemd and pulseaudio were more or less directly architected after MacOS’ design of Core Audio and launchd.

Really shows how little you actually know.

Can you tell Cron to catch up on the things that should’ve happened but didn’t because the system was off?