I think we're all tired of "the other side is just as bad" crap man. You have the whole miserable Republican game plan laid out in front of you with Project 2025, the warnings weren't headed. They went on to do things worse than we could imagine. The excuse at the time was at least they had a plan. The loudest criticism I heard for democrats was they didn't even have a plan.

So IDK, republicans making scary plans for democrats seems so fucking small dude. Electric cars is the big boogeyman seriously? You're not worried about Venezuela nationalizing your shit _again_ and omg what if the dems don't go to war or snatch their leaders to defend the oil extraction gig we forced them into?! What if dems normalize relations with ... Canada? Not a concern? If they unfuck Harley Davidson's tariff problems, that's OK? The thing you're going to run with is dems might make you buy a LiveWire?

Republicans remind me of little kids campaigning against adults. If big people win they'll make us all wear braces! They'll make us eat broccoli and go to bed early! They're throwing firecrackers at the neighbor's cat and their sense of normal is so fucked up that's their idea of what the big bad adults in charge will do to them. Dude you're afraid of bullshit, and you need to remember what normal is like.

That's smaller than one tape cartridge? How do you compare a single hot swap hard drive to a tape system, it's an entirely different scale. The $ per TB is strongly in tape's favor.

Did you just crawl out from under a rock and never heard of LTO?

They have extremely high bandwidth and it scales cleanly with the number of drives. So backup systems are sized to move a LOT of data, it's like comparing throughput of a semi to a sedan. Even if your car is very fast, I can add one more trailer. Fanning out linear writes is incredibly efficient. Removable media lets us scale bandwidth and capacity independently. So there's no slow, you simply add drives until everything else is the bottleneck.

Access time is usually not an issue with archival media, I mean what's the access time of an unplugged SSD.

... "at least we aren't like Poland" he says.

I just can't even ... this is how low the right has sunk, we're at Poland now. How's the deficit looking my republican bros? I feel embarrassed for people like Shaitan. I think about y'all every time I fill up my tank, it's a damned shame.

Dude we're literally living through Team America: World Police 2 right now, we fucked up the global economy AGAIN. With some kind of national oil interest in a country who's leader we nabbed in the middle of the night. What the fuck are you talking about, how can you be so tone deaf?

You're confused, he didn't rename AGI to SI, he renamed AI to SI.

Superintelligence already had a meaning, but now the federal government will refer to the whole field of AI as SI. You're reverse engineering Trump's SI to mean the part of the field of AI that the government should be most interested in, because that's the only thing that might make sense, but then the government would use the original meanings of both AI and SI... they're not. When the federal government says SI, they could literally be referring to what the rest of us just call AI now. It doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense. You can't make it make sense. Trump did it because he thinks Super sounds better, that is all. It's exactly as dumb as it sounds.

I think I understand where you're coming from, you're not American right? So from an outsider POV, yes the situation is bizarre. Like what is this Christian Republican nonsense, their actions don't seem to have any connection to Christianity, WWJD doesn't seem to be a factor in any policy decisions, and surely America is still famously a land of religious freedom, so you see us throwing religious labels around and your gut reaction says that must be wrong, like Jewish Democrat and Christian Republican should be equally irrelevant, right?

Yah you'd think. I wish. They should be totally irrelevant. To be fair I don't think any Jewish Democrats really give a rats ass if we identify them as Jewish or not, it doesn't matter and I don't care, same as Jewish Republicans, and I don't think Christian Democrats give any fucks either. It's the Christian Republicans that are something else man. They've turned religious identity into part of their party platform. So you're not seeing an accusation, you're seeing self identification and this elevation of Christianity to some sort of primacy. Believe me, we're ALL confused how their faith relates to their policy, it doesn't make any more sense from over here, but it's their thing, I'm not making it up. You might be wondering wait he said Jewish Republicans, how the fuck does that work? I think the way that works is sort of a shared authoritarian view of America for Christians and Israel for Jews thing. But IDK, I can't figure out log cabin republicans either and that's a whole thing.

They very loudly self identify that way and explicitly claim their religion has superiority. Of course there are objections, to that premise. .. are you joining us from Moscow today bud?

"Some will say I am calling America a Christian nation, and so I am. Some will say I am advocating Christian nationalism, and so I am."

"I'm a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists."

"The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church."

"The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it. Of course it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that [Thomas] Jefferson wrote, it's not in the Constitution,"

https://www.pewresearch.org/re...

If you get kickbanned from #grannypr0n for leaching, you start #grannypr0n2 it's very simple.

IDK what we're teaching kids these days but if you're part of this generation that gave us the overly centralized internet, and you have every tool at your disposal to create another damned happy space like r/fuckthoseotherguys but you complain about gatekeeping because that's too much work, then... I guess I don't have nice things to say to you. Just pointing out that it's all what you make it to be.

It's sad like arguing with the bouncer about how ugly the strippers are, pissed off you're not allowed in the club. It's all woke slop but you want to be there. And it's all virtual dude.. you can make another virtual room with your own ugly strippers but nobody wants to hear your unpopular bs in #saggytitsandpolitics or r/grannysnatchconfederacy so you feel entitled to speak to the billion people tuned into #internet, then bitch on /. about those mods. Then you'll bitch about the /. mods on /. OFC. Then go cry in 4chan or something?

It's the dumbest entitlement on display, but I cheer for that man arguing with the bouncer, it's funny as hell. Please take his money and let him once more get slapped around by the purple haired stripper with C-section scars and kicked out again, it sparks joy.

This is such a weird take on an Internet forum. You don't have to go there. It's as centralized as you make it out to be. It's not the only place to find other people that share your hobby. A single forum with hundreds of thousands or millions of members has moderation you disagree with... well no shit, that's fucking huge. Why are you in such a bigass space??? The rooms are virtual.

I grew up on IRC chat rooms with _tens_ of people, and moderators were dickheads then, because they're random people that got there first. So you go to a different channel. Fast forward today and some of you act like there's one singular canonical #linux with 300 million people in it and complain about being banned for your weird takes because you're entitled to a soapbox on your own terms in any sized virtual room you like. Go start a #linuxhottakes and moderate to your hearts content.

I'm sorry but you're all fucking weird. It's like going to a water park and complaining about the rules. The rules are because all the fucking people there... try a smaller pool or play nice with others because you're not the main character in a room with a million other people. You're not entitled to be. Call a room woke then act like you want to be there. Fucking nutjobs.

You should talk to a psychiatrist.

What, it's true. People really don't judge a product by how many things don't go wrong. It's like how the drummer in a band gets overlooked until he misses a beat. You might actually have nothing that can go wrong, but it doesn't matter if people don't believe it. You need both but perception is right out front like it or not. I'm not suggesting go lead with a perception gap, just that managing it is different from you know, the reality. Knowing it's out front, you have to address it.

Releasing a steady stream of post-quantum crypto upgrades, and being honest, and not regressing in other areas, is more important than waiting for a proven quantum supercomputer proof architecture for example.

So how does this affect the bottom line, will we sell more services?