Why would anyone trust a company named after a set of crystal balls cursed to mislead or corrupt the will of the user?

I made a short comment about your source's well-deserved reputation for falsehood, a link to Wikipedia, and here you are monologing. Have a nice day!

Good lord! Why would you use such an unreliable source like The Gateway Pundit? Even when they are accurate, they're stealing their articles from sites that actually employ journalists. The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is an American far-right[2] fake news website.[1] The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.[34]

The Toronto Sun is part of Postmedia, an American-owned chain that exercises strong editorial control and is basically Fox North.

Canadian Civil Liberties Association seems legit, but the Canadian Constitution Foundation is part of the Koch Atlas network, slipping far-right American money into Canadian politics.

That doesn't mean that they're wrong, but what they say should be examined carefully for fish hooks.

Continually using the stock phrase "peaceful protestors" doesn't make it so.

Even scheme that I've seen that involves getting water from air always falls apart when you look at the energy cost to change water vapor to liquid. Why not start with a few liters of already liquid gray water to split?

It certainly adds gravitas when using it with my Raspberry Pi.

All of Google's apps and pieces gradually get bigger and bigger and expect more powerful hardware. (And you can't relocate them to a micro SD card.)

It takes time, but it's lethal in the end.

These days no one buys something and actual owns it. It's licensed from the maker, who can pull the plug at anytime. e.g. if DJI gets a court order from a government to ground all drones within a country? Fine.

"return the second laptop because the device was capable of accessing Allegro's IT network"

It sounds like they depend on the MAC address for access security, and not-a-one-of-them has ever heard of MAC spoofing. (Or a Pingles can for extending WiFi range to off of company property.)

"Sorry, but you're being let go. These two gentlemen will escort you from the building, with a stop at the nurse to yank your chip."

Do a remake of Mad Max, roaming the center of Australia, looking for a charge for his Tesla.

No, that's the first generation E3's. You'll note the page I actually linked you to shows E3 v5, the "View All" link takes you to the database which can only show one generation at a time and defaults to the oldest.

v5 launch dates are Q4'15 through Q2'16.

Right, because they have safety systems that cover the typical cases. Apple lack those, so it's not just the convoluted multiple problems piling up that will take out their products, it's simple common ones as well.

ZFS repairs using redundant copies of data which don't exist on single-disk configurations. All ZFS will do in such a situation is tell you there's an error in a file it can't correct and suggest you restore it from backup. If it's a transient memory or IO error causing the checksum to fail, a second attempt at reading it should work.

More cores?

When did I mention 4-5 year old Xeons? Current prices here:

i7 Skylake, £258-£290 for 2.4-4GHz.

E3 Skylake, £162-£508 for 2.9-3.7GHz. If you forgo 4GHz the Xeons are actually cheaper.

And these machines are already vulnerable just to single bit errors anywhere both in the IO path and in memory.

The repair-of-death you describe involves multiple errors in the memory path occurring in a specific order and in relatively specific places, that are already dangerous to existing filesystems.

The atime update metadata corruption you quote is similarly already a problem with existing filesystems. In fact it's more of a problem for these filesystems because they're overwriting existing metadata, not creating new copies of metadata that can be rolled back in a disaster as ZFS does.

Even if we take it as true that ZFS is more vulnerable to these specific types of error (by no means demonstrated), that needs to be balanced against all the other errors it's less vulnerable against.

... so does every other filesystem. I'll quote another bit of that paper you like:

"In addition to ZFS, we have applied the same fault injection framework used in Section 5 to a simpler filesystem,ext2. Our initial results indicate that ext2 is also vulnerable to memory corruptions. For example, corrupt data can be returned to the user or written to disk. When certain fields of a VFS inode are corrupted, operations on that inode fail or the whole system crashes. If the inode is dirty, the corrupted fields of the VFS inode are propagated to the inode in the page cache and are then written to disk, making the corruptions permanent. Moreover, if the superblock in the page cache is corrupted and flushed to disk, it might result in an unmountable filesystem"

i7-class Xeons (E3-XXXX) support ECC and are usually priced basically identically to their i7 cousins. i3's get used in tiny NAS systems like HP Microservers, probably why they come in ECC variants.

I'm sure Apple are more than capable of pushing for it if they considered it a priority. They have the purchasing power, they have the margins, they have the PR to make people wet themselves over the benefits if they so choose.