I've been a longtime hardware hoarder for nearly 3 decades so I share your sentiment. But at some point, it's not worth it.

You may have paid $30 for the machine itself, but you continue to pay every year for it in terms of power, maintenance, occupied space, and if your hobby time is limited, engineering time figuring out hacks to make it continue working.

Particularly if these are x86-64 machines that don't work with grub, suggesting that they were from around the first generation. If you recall that time in the 90's, those cpus were huge power hogs. I'd never encountered power supplies burning out (without a discrete graphics card) until I met those first gen 64s. Nowadays, you can easily power a magnitude more compute power with the same electrical power cost.

Why did you hire a carpenter? Are you too fucking stupid to work word with your own hands? Were you hiring the carpenter to build a high wooden horse for you to sit on?

I'll bite.

I'm a professional sysadmin. Scope is important so we'll go by cores. The total number that I admin and/or work directly with total over 100,000. I work very closely with a lot of cutting edge technology. [FQ]DR IB, distributed fs in or near the range of petabytes, openstack, clusterware. We do this to run systems geared towards bioinformatics, CFD, CAE, etc. I can't speak for everyone but if I included a few colleagues I work with closely, the number of systems grow astronomically as they may have detailed knowledge of much bigger systems than I do. None of these systems will touch systemd with a 10ft pole.

I use systemd on one system, a personal laptop that I use linux mint on for steam. Due to some configuration I had no part of, this laptop will take about 4 minutes to boot depending on the network I'm on and say "waiting 60 seconds for network" even though it's a static ip set outside of nm. I live in CLI 24/7, I never use the gui, and I don't even want to bother with this. Why? Because it doesn't make sense from a "sysadmin" point of view. I'll jump into things for work that I have no clue about and that is what I love about my job. But what I've seen of systemd from my own experience and those of my colleagues (not from reading slashdot), the things I'd be working out are not real problems but rather retarded defaults set by systemd that assume things it shouldn't. It's very invasive and overreaching and that's NEVER a fun thing to work with from a sysadmin point of view.

Systemd isn't the worst. I don't like it but I see that as a personal preference and if it ever got its shit together, I could see it being a boon for workstations or laptops. But in no way, will any real sysadmins who do REAL work with linux under the hood come near systemd anytime soon. RHEL7 adoption is going to be a joke.

Bennett shows that he logs onto United webpage the same way he tries to write a decent article: brute force.

I hope you're being sarcastic. It doesn't kill a lot of birds. Please go look up the word "scale" in the dictionary and try to wrap your tiny understanding around global numbers.

Your two sentences are in disagreement.

"The only way not to lose is to not play the game" -> not running = !losing

Probability of losing (at the decision to run or the election itself): p=.9

Also, in response: https://www.youtube.com/result...

Thank you for being so technologically inept to post links to youtube search queries so that I don't even need to follow them to see what kind of crazy you're selling.

That's what's important to you? Not having a country of happy people, healthy people, educated people, or good opportunity for all classes?

The US wins solely because we have the richest billionaires and they are our sports stars?

They said MBps which is MegaByte per second. You misread it.

B=byte
b=bit

High resolution pictures make me see sand. This one will enable me to see sand on mars even sandier!

Depends on how selfish you are. If nothing else in the world matters to you, then life won't get any worse for you and you only.

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Relevant text: The botnet’s Bitcoin operation was only profitable because it used stolen electricity: it used about $561,000 (£347,000) of electricity a day on its victims’ machines, while only generating $2,165 (£1340) a day.

One would have to be inhuman to let your greed cause so much damage for so little gain.

I didn't bother to read TFS.

Yes. You do. Ask if the author (or any sane person on this planet for that matter) would fly in a plane that didn't have a pilot.

The difference with automated trains and trolleys is that they are on tracks.

I came here to this link via a soylentnews article, my source of news that slashdot used to fulfill. This place feels kind of second rate now. I can't shake the feeling that any visit to slashdot can be the one management decides to try and shove something else down my throat.

Look at this load of bullshit: "But if you were one of the users who commented on the superiority of the Classic UX, we agree." No, you didn't agree. How long did you try to push that pile of shit against all the complaints and boycotts of your userbase. Don't act like you tried something and it didn't work. Instead, try showing a bit of humility and apologise to your users. Say that you learned something from this fucking farce and that you will keep this in mind in your future decisions. That would have earned some trust back from me far more than this load of PR bullshit.