I call bullshit, you may have no issues with X11, but you definitely had issues with the "setup". I have never managed ever on any distro with any device to get X11 to correctly identify multiple different resolution / refresh monitors correctly.

I've always gotten it to work... except for the refresh issue, but the reality is X11 is very poor at this. Bonus points if you need to scale across one monitor only. That I've never gotten to work.

Last time I used X11 I switched away from it out of frustration and haven't looked back. Network transparency isn't worth the hell of trying to use X11 as a modern desktop. It was great back when hardware was static, but on a laptop with different docking stations, maybe connected to a TV sometimes to watch movies it is simply amazing that X11 hasn't made my put my fist straight through the screen on multiple occasions.

No issues? Man I bow before you oh master hacker. You are truly a god amongst us mere mortals.

Do I sound pissed? Yes, X11 has pissed me off in ways Wayland hasn't (yet).

You may think so, but even you are susceptible to marketing. That's the great thing marketing doesn't want you to know: It works even when people think it doesn't. You may not want cheap junk, but that doesn't make you immune from all of it.

A large portion of your life is dictated by what you know about the world, and a significant portion of that is delivered via marketing. You almost certainly are surrounded by stuff you wouldn't have otherwise bought were it not for marketing, even if you didn't do it consciously. If you lived a life only replacing the broken stuff that you need you wouldn't be reading this on a computer (or smartphone). Those "needs" are ultimately created through marketing.

As long as you cover all options then sure. I am all for signing PDFs on a touch screen or via digital signature. My mother, not so much.

"Worse" is a matter of specification. Worse in what regard? There's no reason it needs to be specific to all metrics, it can be to just some. E.g. cost, speed, care, coverage. Objectively all private systems are worse in coverage due to a legal obligation to deliver to all postal addresses. That doesn't mean that someone else can't turn a profit while meeting the other three requirements.

Where I live the local post office is slower and the same price as DHL - a for profit service.

Because you only have people send you garbage? Bulk mail is a form of communication. The way it is used varies. That you are using it poorly doesn't mean it should go away.

No I make no assumptions on the validity of data, in fact the corruption of data is often the root cause of a bluescreen. What I'm making an assumption about is the possible failure modes and how a logical partition can correct for them. And the simple answer is, it can't.

You either write to %windir% or you don't. Having Office or Photoshop installed on D: partition instead of C: doesn't change that. You either write to the pagefile or you don't. Having that pagefile located on a different logical partition also doesn't change anything either.

Having it on a different physical device may change something, but then the root cause of the problem was a device corrupting data in flight, not the location of the files on the said device. The partition part of this makes no sense.

Clearly you don't understand how the EU works. Germany was a core player in this, and has been for a while. This letter is rather irrelevant, there's been a discussion in the EU about relaxing these rules for well over 6 months now spearheaded by Germany at the behest of their industry. The thing that is irrelevant here is the letter itself.

Invested but never pushed. BMW also had a H2 car, but none of these cars were proudly telling investors that this is the future of mobility. That was very much a Toyota thing.

They still are. That doesn't mean the other use cases weren't being pushed as well. You can see that evident in the various H2 filling stations for vehicles around the place. Here's a map: https://h2-map.eu/, here's an explanation: everything 700bar is stupid (passenger vehicles). Everything 350bar made more sense.

Cases often go cold because there's not enough evidence pointing to a specific person to get a warrant. Warrants do not get issued generically for "I want to search a 3rd party private DNA database."

*once per week, not per day.

In any case my server with 2x 32GB sticks in it registers a hardware error slightly less than once a year (last one I see was in September 2024) and it's not like I live in a hardened bunker.

That is not cosmic rays. Are you sure your nextdoor neighbour isn't running a secret nuclear reactor?

Yes bit flips from cosmic rays happen. If you were to to say once or twice a year then I'd blame it on a bitflip (that's about in line with what Google's study estimates a a server with large amounts of memory would have), but if you were getting errors daily then its time to replace your RAM. If it's seemingly random across the memory channels then new CPU/Motherboard.

Well you're more than welcome to fly on Boeing...

You're assuming a lot. The software rollback may very well have to do with changes in error detection and correction routines. Hell here's a super oversimplified example: When you update your BIOS on a server there's a good chance you come out the other side with ECC turned off.

This isn't unreasonable. I've experienced a large compressor shutdown costing many millions of dollars thanks to a firmware update on a safety system from Honeywell which had a bug in error detection and handling which caused a simple random single hardware fault to escalate to a redundant failure that shouldn't have occurred. Honeywell withdrew the update globally and we were advised to roll back. This kind of shit happens.

No they should not. They should spend their money focusing on designs that are inherently resilient to soft errors rather than spending a fortune on buying hardened silicon to address a singular cause of a potential error. Boron-11 silicon is predominantly used in the medical imaging, space, and nuclear industry where equipment is expected to be continuously bombarded with high levels of radiation. Flights just don't qualify for that level of mitigation requirement in the silicon manufacture.