C projects are more carefully audited that is why they occasionally get CVEs, most are of very low severity.

I mean all web projects are written in "memory safe" languages, but they are all constantly in a state of swiss cheese of having thousands of severe security flaws on all levels of implementation and in design.
No one even cares to attack them anymore as it is just way too easy.

Memory safety actually untrains the brains in dealing with finite resources. Causing those same issues to pop up elsewhere instead.

Shm, sockets, io etc.
None of it can be handled automatically, and neither can memory if you get right down to the details.

Arguing for managed memory is the same argument as saying: Everyone should be using lisp instead of C.

Another solution looking for a problem.
C has issues, but memory safety is not one of them. Direct memory manipulation is the whole point of low level programming.

It doesn't need to control us, and why would it want to?
It can just pretend to be our tool until it starts consuming everything, including us, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

If we had AGI, we'd be extinct already.

You do realise that to find something opposite, you first need to define that thing and then find many of the same thing and repeat until you have a good definition.
Therefore, invariably, your best bet is to cure it with the something similar until it is understood better.
When triggering the same symptoms the body activates its immune defenses and cures it all by itself.

For almost every type of ailment the initial treatments have been homeopathic. For the most difficult diseases they still are.
Vaccines are effectively homeopathic treatments since they trigger an immune response and teach the immune system.
Homeopathy is the idea of using something similar so it also doesn't necessarily use a dangerous pathogen or the active parts of one, for the purpose like vaccines still do.

Allopathy can be used when a disease is thoroughly understood. But it can also screw up more than it fixes since it bypasses the immune system and
You don't need to look further than the field of psychotherapy to find many examples of allopathic treatment going terribly wrong.

I suggest you stop reading scientism propaganda. All modern medicine owes something to homeopathy, regardless if some parts of some treatments were wrong 200 years ago.

"Like cures like" is commonly used when looking for new medical candidates. Medicine is still trial and error.

Vaccines and other medicines aren't fundamentally different. Vaccines are primarily preventative, homepathy can be preventative too.

Scientism is the idea that a group of unscientific people can mock who ever their tribal leader tells them to, under the banner of pretending that bullying is science.
Science cannot be authoritarian. It is by nature a process where the solutions will come from where we least expect them to and knowledge isn't necessarily transferrable.

You do realise that life expectancy has increased less than normally expected? And that it has increased by the same amount in animals.
It therefore seems unlikely we had anything to do with it.

Others have not destroyed the earth.
It's primarily the US and the west who are the culprits, and what's done is already done. It's a bit late to be blaming others, don't you think?

Until USA stops their emissions there's no point for anyone else to do anything, since it really makes no difference.
US is the biggest polluter by a very large margin.

Prior to the invention of penicillin, homeopathy was the leading branch of medicine. And it was not what its modern critics make it out to be.
Dilution for example is not a fundamental part of homepathy, it was an easy way for quacks and scammers to save money on ingredients in an unregulated field.

Homeopathy does not necessarily dilute anything.
It is the idea that like cures like. Which is still taken seriously and is part of the origin of modern medicine.

You've been reading too much scientism articles.
Modern medicine has its roots in homeopathy. It is the idea of like cures like, and that idea is still taken seriously in medicine.
Just because some quacks are diluting substances out of existence doesn't mean that's homeopathy, quackery happens to any field that isn't regulated.
Just look at modern vaccines for flu and covid.
Regulation is important to keep the quacks out.

Nonsense, come back when the US signs even the Kyoto protocol.
They have more than a hundred years of a head start in pollution.
It stands to reason that other countries should at the very least be afforded the same amount of pollution per capita.
So China is well within their rights to continue pollution for a while to come, even after the US completely ends their pollution.

And until the west ends its own pollution, it's ridiculous for them to demand that others do it.

Nonsense, from a world perspective climate change has been a fact for the last 40 years.
Only in the English-speaking parts of the world do you find people who ever thought it was a scam, and people who are in a position to do something about it, because they own everything and have so far been the ones causing it.
If you want China to stop you need to show them you are willing by not causing any more pollution.
It may take a couple of decades to convince them, but that's what YOU need to do.

Sounds like homeopathy.

I'm looking to upgrade mine and primarily need a controller with lots of extra well documented I/Os, a performant MCU with lots of memory
preferrably also TMC5160 controllers and motor closed-loop. My printer is heavily customised with non-standard extra peripherals.
I've been looking at SKR 1.4 turbo and Duet 3D.

Anything in particular you can comment on, or recommend before I take a deep dive into the traditional time & monetary investment in the wrong thing?
Any experience would be helpful.

You can't solve the problem by "spooling out more, later" (larger caches) when the main difference between all other drives and SMR is that factor.
The absolute determinism that a write will be done before a deadline, unless the drive can be marked defective.
SMR requires fundamental changes in every storage scheduler that sees any kind of real load. And from a usage standpoint it has more in common with an SSD than a HDD.
Although a lot of this goes away with a fully implemented SAS/FC reporting architecture. It may still pose a problem from a usage standpoint.