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afraid.org has been there offering free DNS hosting since the year 2000, 26 years

Whilst it would be nice to know their contingency and continuity plans, I feel like their history is a better indicator of the future than just a bunch of feel-good words that you'd likely find a way to interpret pesssimisticly anyway.

Using the system WebView has pretty much the same bloat as electron (in terms of cpu and ram) unless I'm missing something? Sure it's nice that it's not 500MB on disk but day to day it doesn't affect me as much as the fact that you're still running in a browser.

For me it's not about the cpu time, but the memory. If you spin up hundreds of containers the docker overhead becomes very real.

I think you're confusing userland threading (also known as green threads) with a regular thread pool implementation (that uses regular OS threads).

Because most web servers use OS threads. Nginx, Apache, litespeed, they all spin up `core count` threads but they can all work single threaded just fine as well.

The only valid point is your last one. It's not only about having more eyes either, but also backup eyes for when the main eyes are unavailable.

All the other things you mentioned are just things you personally wish for but may very well be undesirable to the project.

I can feel your hatred of LLMs and the article is clearly written by it. But don't let it blind you. "One" maintainer makes perfect sense here, "the" would sound odd. It's truly been used that way for a long time.

I'm an electrician. I used to be a programmer. I still program for fun and sometimes get small gigs.

In my city the pay scale for the first 5-7 years of a grad software engineer and grad electrician careers are comparable and I expect that to be the case in most of the world outside the handful of American bubbles. One thing I enjoy is that the minimum pay is regulated by a union so I don't have to hop job every year to make sure I'm not underpaid.

After that the salaries diverge quite quickly and the ceiling is much much lower as an electrician.

It's still pretty good money, though, so I don't think that's really a con to this career.

You can't get it back there's nothing to attach it to. There's also no point for the risks involved.

Organs can be transplanted twice but it's very rare and it's usually when the first recipient dies shortly after the transplant. It's called (quite obviously) retransplantation if you want to Google it.

3.5kW might be enough but you conclusion that 1kW is also enough is absurd.

12kWh is 40 miles, closer to 25-30 in cold climate.

This is absolutely not a range that the average person would be happy with. And no, this isn't range anxiety or bad faith, it's literally less than the average daily commute (30 miles round trip).

A lot of the things you mention aren't things that have been "conveniently forgotten", they're simply things that mean nothing to most people to begin with...

> From shipping a fully certified UNIX with a modern UI

Ignored because nobody cares or wanted it.

> to getting all the music player market and influencing how any music player would be from then on

Anybody born after millennials have only ever known Spotify, they don't know about iTunes and 99c songs. That's like saying Napster has been conveniently forgotten.

> to seamlessly moving between Motorola and Intel and Apple Silicon with the ability to run the older software from a different architecture with Rosetta

That's a remarkable engineering achievement but that's an implementation detail. Backwards compatibility on the desktop was and still is tablesakes.

> to the first modern touch smartphone

Nobody forgot, there's always one of you to remind the class that Apple was first (by your own definition of modern touch smartphone)

> to getting wireless earpods (and pairing) right

They were clearly the first to demonstrate that people did indeed want fully wireless despite HN's objections at the time.

> to designing their own fucking integrated CPU, and even their own broadband chip

That would be impressive if they were a startup. Every trillion dollar tech companies design their own CPUs.

> Even simple things, like making the best touchpad in the market.

I don't know anyone who claims otherwise, and for the longest time they didn't make their own touchpads. So much for being conveniently forgotten.

Windows has no problem with hibernation and FDE and it uses a swap file.

Windows and Linux run on the exact same hardware. Windows hibernation doesn't rely on secret bios features.

Unreliable hibernation is 100% and undeniably a Linux problem, there is no secret advantage or conspiracy to keep it down. It's just that nobody cares enough to make Linux not suck.

What's funny? That's how every linux computer start. The boot loader copies the kernel to RAM then jumps to it.

I frequently get mini failures with quad9 and my DNS client is too dumb to retry with another server (or quad9 returns a valid but bogus response that prevents my client from hoping to the next server) so I had to ditch quad9.

Quad9 also has worse latency but I could live with it, I just can't live with web pages failing to load several times per day(especially hacker News that has their DNS TTL set to 1 second)

It doesn't happen with my ISP's servers nor with CloudFlare or google or even good ol' L3.

None of what you say makes Europe better when it comes to the topic at hand, though?

If I have to choose US or EU to host my website, the size of their army, the strength of their currency, or their history as political bullies doesn't affect my blog or nextcloud instance.

What affects me is their privacy and data harvesting laws. EU is nominally better with the former, but the latter is eroding very fast and they're roughly the same.