Experience is important and not having it is not free of problems.

This is not about how easy is to drive a submarine ... it is about what you know to do in an emergency.

A good solution is just to cover the led with black tape.

A better one .... for the device providers that acquire the data, DON'T USE THE LEDs on the device to show data activity. In fact, don't use them at all, and save some bucks.

Right now, I am working on a notebook with an i5 and 32GB of RAM (upgradeable to 64). And this machine works better than the same brand with an i7, because both are notebooks, and when the i7 uses more power, the CPU is forced to reduce the speed to save power and reduce heat, while the i5 is happy working at nominal speed. So ... why the extra $$$ for the i7?

At the end those iX just say that the chip have more or less inactive processing units inside. You must deal also with another number and a generation to understand what type of power you are dealing with.

AI is wonderful "by concept" ... but all these XXX-GPT are creating a toxic environment for the technology usage, making it unusable. It was a good test, a good extremely expensive test, but that's all ... it is not a good replacement for other practices as have a lot of failures mixed with good answers. And it is a very difficult to control tool; it just have many variables involved without a clear methodology to assess its trust level.

What could happen is that the run to have "the right" alternative will damage all them, and the good name of AI for a lot of years.

And ... what about the new Sodium based batteries? Yeah, they are very new, but at least they are not based on lithium.

We can't forget that humans continuously are chasing for technology improvements. So, the "idea" that a "battery" is something wrong is false. The real problem is the wrong type of battery with the wrong care in the wrong environment. And also, there is gravity energy storage (https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy) or other "different" ideas like that for such tasks as to store huge quantities of energy in big places.

I am confused about some comments.

The enzyme produces electricity from hydrogen, even from small quantities in the air. The enzyme goal is not to produce hydrogen.

So, what we need is the enzyme and some sort of better batteries, as the new sodium ones ... and some air. That's all ... right?

"As a result of these activities, Xinuos has been excluded from key opportunities in the market. For example, despite Xinuos offering a FreeBSD-based operating system with substantial commercial value for enterprise users, Xinuos was unable to garner as much financial support or customer interest in OpenServer 10 as it could and should have due to the market conditions."

The operating system landscape is very different today. And this includes what we think about "licensing" ...

Linux is not the cause but the effect. The real cause is GNU that has nothing to see with all these other UNIX derivations.

So, if today I go to purchase Xinuos assets, then by inheritance I have the right to fight directly o indirectly Linux? This is as to say that I will sue Elon Musk because I am selling less gasoline based cars.

I have seen terrible problems with memory leaks on critical services, with catastrophic consequences.

So ... yes ... memory leaks make programs unsafe when they must run continuously (they never stop). Remember that any computer has a limited memory space.

What happens is that memory is a so important resource, that the problems related with it are multi-dimensional. We can't limit engineering problems just to "some types" of issues. So ... in reality ... the language alone is not the key. I can make good quality and safe stuff with C and crap things with Rust. To think that just because we use Rust (or any other current or future language) everything is magically "safe", is a terrible mistake.

This is really funny.

Then, we pay each month how much? $12? $25? ... for the equivalent power of having a Raspberry Pi in our hands ... if we ask for the Pi 400 kit, this is total $100 all the time we use the machine.

There is a balance has been broken, because the cloud is important for some important things but NOT for everything. To pay storage for backup has some sense, but storing data is mainly a passive task without a lot of CPU needed.

Absolute solutions are plain wrong. The ideal is hybrid ... and we don't need 10 email accounts or 20 photo sharing sites. And local storage is so cheap these days, that together with these marvelous tiny machines we could do a lot of things outside the cloud.

The wrong thing is to try to use 100% of the physical space when using smaller machines with more consumption.

Then, we will need to use the SUN directly for energy if we shrink things to the best possible power/space ratio?

This is why it is important not only to increase computing power, but to improve efficiency with better software using in the best possible way the available resources.

And cryptocurrency madness must stop being conceived around computing waste; this is nonsense, just to trash energy to justify value. Is that we become stupid or something similar as civilization advances?

This bring another question: what is communication?

The white piece of paper "is" communication, as it can deliver a message. But it is far from being the only way people can interchange thoughts and opinions.

The problem with the current smartphone technology and the Internet, is that they are forcing us to standardize the way we share information in such a way that the information be easy to eavesdrop and/or manipulate. We even could argue that this is on purpose, to drive people to believe that they can't do things differently.

And, of course, where is the limit between legal and crime? And this is not only about a particular country, this happens everywhere.

There are many things that I don't understand.

To be anonymous is possible, when we don't use standard communication mechanisms (services, machines). With so many electronic parts, or even non electronic mechanisms around, why not to avoid the situation? In fact these white leaves of paper are "pure genius".

The problem is that we believe that the phone is part of our life, when it is just a machine as a coffee maker or a TV are. In fact, we were able to survive for thousands of years without phones, and everything was OK.