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  • Even if you take four words of a 30000 word list (quick Google says that's the number of words an average person knows), that's still less bits of entropy than a 5 word diceware password (7776 word list). People are also really bad at randomness, so your own string of random words is likely going to be much worse.

  • It's not unheard of, Icelandic is much closer to Old Norse than Norwegian is.

    There are many reasons why this could be the case: pure chance, less outside influence of other languages, a smaller group of people, ...

    Not all of these apply to the US and I have no idea whether English in the US has less changed than in the UK.

  • Want to stop something from starting? Well, it used to be that you just move it out of the init directory, but now you have to know to “systemctl disable something.service”,

    That is still the case, nothing stops you from manually moving a file and its dependencies into or out of /etc/systemd/system/

  • init scripts were so simple they could be understood just by looking at the name: the computer is Initialized by Scripts. Systemd was much more complex and allowed many more tools to interact with the different parts of the computer, but people had to learn these tools. Previously all a person had to understand to deal with the computer was how to edit a text file and what various commands and programs did.

    It's complex because it solves a complex problem. before people had to hack that together with complex init scripts, now they can let systemd do the hard work.

    A comment from an Arch Linux' init script maintainer: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/comment/d3rhxlc/

  • I'm not against legalization of prostition or drugs, but the only thing The Netherlands figured out is that simply legalization doesn't make the problems go away. Both drug crime and human trafficking are still a big issue.

  • Yes, and no. Imagine it costs $20/car to install seat heating in every car, but by making two assembly lines, one for with and one without it every car becomes $25 more expensive. Software disabling costs $1/car. In this scenario it would cost more to make a car without physical seat heating than one with. This is just an extreme example to show the problem, with other costs it can be more complicated, but the principle stands.

  • But instead of passing the economic gain to the customers, they arbitrarily lock it to maximize profit.

    In a perfect market those things are the same, that's the beauty of capitalism. By software disabling features they can lower prices for customers who don't want them and asking higher prices of people who are willing to pay for it.

    Obviously perfect markets don't exist, but cars are a super competitive market.

  • It's not so simple. Often these costs are without storage and we currently don't even have the capacity to create so much storage.

    Most of the cost for nuclear is designing and building the powerplant. Keeping working plants open is not so expensive. Building new ones will get cheaper if we build more of them.