Indeed. It's easier to understand how much bananas it would power up.

Also, the USA, among other Western nations of course, made use of that cheap manufacturing advantage by having moved a lot of domestic production to China for so many years.

Great idea, corporate capitalism. Who would have guessed there'd be consequences to squeezing every dime out of production.

Currently running two PCs with a bunch of disks in RAID1 each, and thought of using Ceph to replace it and have a copy of all data on each PC while still having the checksum data integrity. For now I copy the most important stuff daily with rsync from one to the other, but I like to see it part of the underlying distributed filesystem and be as hands-off as possible.

Unfortunately, Devuan stable at the time didn't have the correct version for it, which it has now, but setting it up has to be done manually and there's no init script as far as I can tell. Only support for systemd which is a dealbreaker for me.
Haven't checked up on alternatives yet, though.

You can shut down all social media, and also forums since you want to include /. as well, but those are not the problem.

The problem is people can't handle such sites because they cling to bling and awe and extremisms instead of applying critical thinking on the information coming their way.
It's a psychological (educational) issue, not a technical one.

..but when will we see an ECC option on consumer hardware?

I'm running BTRFS RAID1 for years now on my laptops, but I'd like to add ECC to the mix.
Sure, you can question how urgents is the need for either, but I have experienced bitrot on disk before.

Too much is never enough.

Especially when working with people.

What? Can't they fill those jobs with some kind of AI? How quaint.

How about making clean and simple websites without a bunch of 3rd party connections.

Looking very much at you, Google spyware.

..yet here I am, still typing with two fingers.

and they want you to pay for it on top of it.

Welcome to the GoogleNet.

It's just that Google is slowly transforming the internet into Googlenet, and makes sure that you're trapped into it one part at the time.

It's back to the beginning of the internet with all the walled-in provider fiefdoms.

Sounds like they're still using Pentium PCs in the accounting department with old copies of Excel as a cost saving measure.

I looked at ADA a few years ago out of curiosity, and found itt interesting as a secure language.
But I don't like some of the strict syntax rules and noticed a bit of feature creep with the addition of OOP support, and I had no real project to work on so I didn't pursue it further.

Rust is just as interesting, but I see the same drawbacks and I see it going the way of C++ by adding new features on it all the time and abandoning simplicity.

C might need more attention to avoid bugs, but nothing beats its flexibility and simplicity. I really like it.

Sites are becoming more heavy by the year, yes, but I can leave Pale Moon open for weeks on end with a few sites open and a bunch which automatically unload (but not close) thanks to an extension.

Even with another window open with lots of active tabs, I had no problems keeping it open for weeks until I needed a restart for updates. I'm quite pleased with how stable this browser is.

The benefit is that it leaves RAM for all the other programs I'm running.
When I run Firefox with a few sites open it slows everything down to a crawl because of swapping, and I can't upgrade to more than the 4GB the laptop has.