> (ps I guess the staff must have been spending 80 hours a week torrenting anime since apparently the students weren't responsible)

makes more sense. The older staff could be more IT-technically skilled than younger people

"Pirate"?
Have you actually met any young person lately?

They use smartphones and they do not know what "bittorrent" is.

Well I never experienced that, have been using NFS constantly for a year+ now, zero freezes.

If this is really such a big issue (which I doubt), just don't use NFS on embedded critical systems. Problem solved.

If you run an embedded Linux and it freezes, you must be doing something wrong.

I ran more than 50 Linux machines in my life, guess what: the "stable" non-experimental distros practically never freeze, unless there is a hardware issue. This just doesn't happen.

Just make sure you are running stable kernel and stable software and Linux is more stable than a ton of rock.

I already have it for free in my basement since I installed Linux.

Is it possible to negotiate to lower the price if we skip the sexy penguin tour?

My point is I should the one to control the signing keys.
If I want to throw out the factory keys and install my own - that should be just fine.

Of course, not from the operating system level - but perhaps from boot level or bios setup level.

I did not.

What I mean is I should also have control over what are the "Factory keys" from the top of key hierarchy. I should be able to add and remove keys and certificates as I please.

If I brick my device because of it, I can and will only blame myself. This is the right way.

Some company having more control over a device than the end user that owns the hardware?

Where is the ownership? I am not seeing it.

I am the owner, I should have full and absolute control over whatever I buy.

Huh?

What you wrote:

What it actually meant:

What's next? "Communism is fine"?

- Bitcoin was never anonymous, it was pseudonymous. As long as you are only a pseudonym, they cannot find you. But the moment you make a mistake and link your pseudonym to your real identity, your anonymity is over
- There are other money-like coins that have more anonymity than BTC, like Bitcoin Cash which has Cash Fusion and Monero which has black-box anonymity
- Due to high fees, it became unfeasible to have any pseudonimity on BTC blockchain, since about 2015. This is the reason another project was branched off and forked, called Bitcoin Cash, which is basically Bitcoin but working like BTC did in 2015 and has significantly better fungibility, anonymity and money-like values due to low fees which enables mixing

Author of the article has some reading to do I guess.

They say they don't? It means they will do the reverse. This is just the russian way. The way of a shameless bastard.

We Poles know how russians think. In fact, we understood for centuries - too bad nobody listened.

EDIT:

Acutally it should be: "adjusts mining difficulty as soon as total processing power of the network is increased or decreased.".

I am sorry, but this is not going to happen.

All Proof-Of-Work coins have automatic adjustment algorithm that increase mining difficulty as soon as total processing power of the network is increased or decreased.

In short: The amount of minted coins will always remain pretty much the same, no matter the amount of processing power you throw at it.

You are highly upvoted, yet you don't know anything at all about the topic. Peculiar.

I have been using Brother InkJet printers on both Windows and Linux for the last 10 years and I have no idea what OP means by "printers suck". Brother InkJet Printers, while being more expensive than other printers, are cheap to print and very reliable (at least from my experience). They also do not dry out after some time and do not waste so much ink for cleaning cycles, like the HP or Epson printers I had before. I would just recommend using Brother Inkjet printers (laser printers are different story and I have no experiences there).

And 74% of that usage comes from renewable energy. Sources: link1 link2 This topic can be safely closed now.