Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

Ask Texas how that’s goin.

https://www.statista.com/chart/6780/only-5-countries-have-a-bigger-gdp-than-california/

It’s gdp is more that france

There are many valid problems with the Ukraine and it’s history. There are many conversations one could have about it and what the world should be doing in response to their situation.

The whole “They are Nazis!” argument doesn’t hold water the moment you carry their view point onto something like the US and ask the exact same questions.

That and insane production budgets. A lot of stream services are dumping hundreds of millions into shows that… Really didn’t need that?

Sorry, I seem to be out of the loop, who’s that and what did they do?

I don’t think that user was personally complaining, more pointing out that LW might be facing it’s first crisis of resources. Good sys-ops people don’t come cheap, and bad one often can do far more harm than help.

It’s tricky trying to handle something like this when LW is foundationally not an enterprise or anything close to a business.

I am glad i am not the only one that thought this.

Google is trying to add code to it’s chromium software that would functionally allow for DRM between you and a website. It would be a huge blow to your ability to control ads and what software runs on your PC when you connect to a site.

Use forks or other browsers than chrome.

I have for about a decade. I use my phone as my backup map when I am flying. It has to work, every time, without fail. I’ve never owned an android that could hold a candle to an iPhone for software stability.

Bots just repost comments that were popular in the past and get huge amounts of karma, then delete said post before anyone catches on and starts and downvote wave.

That system is gamable and solved.

People are willing to contribute to well run services. Make the contributions manageable for users and they will happy chip in a few dollars here and there.

That’s what I use personally, I’ve seen the feature elsewhere too.

If I care about the data? It’s on a file system which reports file corruption.

Otherwise? I don’t trust it at all. I back it up and replace the drive when it dies.

Have done years of enterprise fault analysis, I promise you that SMART will happily tell you there is a problem at the same time you begin to experience data corruption. You might get lucky and catch and altered sector count spike up, or a temperature value go out of family, but in the field those things really suck at predictions.

If you want to know if a drive is healthy, track data corruption at the file system layer.

So just as an FYI to those who trust these sorts of things, SMART technology is a self reporting thing. The hard drive is more than capable of lying to the data in that system if it protects the manufacture from responsibility of replacing faulty drives. Whats more, it’s actually pretty rare that SMART reports and issue before the drive just sorta… dies someway or another.

It’s not useless technology, but it’s pretty damn close. I don’t even both with any of my setups. I test it by monitoring if the server has issues reading/writing. SMART wont tell me anything before that will.

Source: Was a firmware engineer on hard drives for 10 years.

Apple’s systems are designed so that they don’t really have a choice in the matter. The end user holds the only master key.

This could 100% happen in the US today given the reproductive laws being passed.