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Comment Old times (Score 2) 29

Remember the old times when kernel modules were considered a security risk, thus disabled altogether?

When OpenBSD was boasting its monolithic kernel as a security features?

IIRC, some commercial *nix OSs didn't had modules for reasons of being archaic fossils. But then more recently, couple decades later, also rebranded it into a safety and a security feature.

Comment Re: This is how revolutions start (Score 4, Interesting) 146

As Gandhi showed, one could confront and defeat an empire without violence

First, tou'd have to be Gandhi to achieve what Gandhi did. If you, yoursellf, did today everything that Gandhi did back in the early 1900s, all youd'd achieve would be starving in prison.

Second, it wasn't strictly non-violence that brought Gandhi success. The Brits didn't let India go because they thought "gee, what a noble character, this guy deserves success". They did becsuse they feared - rightfully so - massive upheaval, violence, and civil war.

What Gandhi did wasn't just to ask nicely; it was to mount a massive, credible threat of great violence. Kudos to him for knowing how to, and being in the position to, do that without personally throwing a single stone himself.

But the key ingredient of Ganfhi-esque success isn't not throwing stones, it's successfully projecting the threat of violent revolution.

Comment Re: If they can't figure out EV (Score 1) 150

So which is now, spontaneous electrocution or spontaneous fire?

Because most modern Li batteries, in particular LiFePO3 batteries, are largely incombustible. You really need to try hard to ignite them, and even then you're likely to fail if you don't know whatbl you're doing.

Gas on thenother hand...

Comment Re:Stop purchasing Bambu products (Score 1, Flamebait) 107

I like their products. I just want printing without fuss and without having to learn every detail about leveling, etc. Their product works for me and I do not care about its openness, it is about as important for what I need it as my headphones being open sourced (not at all). So this product is for my use case, not for people who want to control every aspect of their printer and every software feature.

IF they decide to make it prohibitively expensive to operate their hardware, then I will go back to a less capable hardware kit.

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