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According to Google, burned CDs and DVDs retain data for 5-10 years.

SSDs are between a few years and a few decades, depending on the age, type and quality of the SSD. Same goes for USB sticks.

HDDs are between 10 and 20 years.

Tape drives are at 30+ years.

I wouldn't go quite as far. This is just breacrumbs falling of the corporate table.

I'm running Fedora and since kernel 6.11 my laptop can't wake from sleep, so I keep the kernel back to 6.10, where everything works.

But at the same time I have quite heavy troubles with wine/proton. Probably 80% of the games I tried either don't run at all or only run at <3 FPS. And I'm talking about 10+yo games on a Nvidia 4070 Mobile.

Could it be that the issues come from Wine/Proton expecting ntsync and not having that available?

Who on earth still burns disks (other than pizzas) in 2025?

Nope. That's just the propaganda.

Sure it is, no question. But if you take it seriously, it is completely not compatible with capitalism.

Of course the American Dream is just propaganda, no question about that.

I meant that if you take the American Dream seriously, it is 100% incompatible with capitalism.

That is only the case if the system is not capitalistic in nature, meaning that capital trumps work.

That's the significant feature of capitalism over prior systems: Capital is more important than anything else.

Social mobility is a bug in capitalism, not a feature. Because if you have social mobility, then the rules aren't loose enough so that capital trumps everything.

There's a reason it's called capitalism and not meritalism.

Luckily capitalism is not a binary thing and we don't have pure capitalism.

Sure, but the main issue here is that JS doesn't only auto cast to more generic but in both directions.

Maybe a better example is this:

        "a" + 1 -> "a1"
    "a" - 1 -> NaN


  

With + it casts to the more generic string type and then executes the overloaded + as a string concatenation.

But with - it doesn't throw an exception (e.g. something like "Method not implemented"), but instead casts to the more specific number type, and "a" becomes a NaN, and NaN - 1 becomes NaN as well.

There's no situation where "a" - "b" makes any sense or could be regarded as intentional, so it should just throw an error. String minus number also only makes sense in very specific cases (specifically, the string being a number), so also here I'd expect an error.

If the programmer really wants to subtract one number from another and one or both of them are of type string, then the programmer should convert to number manually, e.g. using parseInt("1") - parseInt("2").

Yeah, might be.

Dailymotion should be a non-issue to get into though. It's got free user access, it's the 9th biggest content site by active users worldwide and I don't think they have selective creator recruiting practices.

There are a few platforms. Nebula, Floatplane, Peertube. I think Patreon allows you to host videos directly on their platform too.

But none of these platforms offer free access plus a built-in ad function.

"work" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here when talking about a Fairphone. Worst phone I ever owned with quite some margin.

Generic degoogling/google alternatives video from Pewdiepie, but he won't get rid of Youtube.

Thanks, sounds interesting!

In German there's a saying "Wer misst, misst Mist."

"If you measure, you measure garbage."

The point here is that measurements often don't measure the exact thing you are looking for, but something adjacent to it. And measuring the wrong thing ends up optimizing that wrong thing instead of what you really want to optimize.

Nope, I'm not. What is it?

Yeah, and Anakin just played with the kids for half an hour before ushering them to safety.

With the -5 to -10°C we have over here it never got below 18°C indoors.

But I guess if we'd have -20°C outdoors for prologed periods we'd probably have to heat too. We do of course have heating, so that's not a problem. I just wanted to demonstrate what our house can do.

I can't say how exactly it would perform at -20°C, since we haven't had that so far.

But on average our heating costs are ~€20 per year plus the €380 flat pricing that the mandatory provider that we have to use charges independent of usage. Sadly I can't cancel that provider since they come with the rent contract. Otherwise I would have cancelled the heating a long time ago and instead used our reversible AC to heat instead.

theoretically software support

This. And it's not only due to drivers and much more due to them not having insourced software development and their outsourced developers not using Fairphones as their daily drivers.