I’m guessing that they wouldn’t actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.

Food is one of those things that is especially habit forming. If people take beef out of their normal routine, it tends to stay that way, even if the original reason is no longer relevant.

Development cost is still a thing with software.

So from two seconds of Googling, it looks to be a proton issue, which zypper dup would do nothing to change. Proton versions are controlled from within steam.

Does the game have kenal level anticheat? Because if it does, it doesn’t matter what distro you choose, it’s the anti-cheat blocking the game from starting.

I don’t immediately hate it. It’s been a while since any laptops/prebuilds shipped with less than 8 GB, and there’s distros out there far better suited to running on low power or legacy hardware.

Some countries allow it. The major difference is that other people cannot choose for you. Your family can’t “put you down” but you can choose to have a doctor assist.

Hopefully it’s just AI tools for development they’re talking about (though that will be bad enough if RHEL becomes vibecoded slop) and not stupid AI “features” baked into the OS.

I don’t like either of those things, but I think it may be the best answer, simply due to the huge install base. Just about every step by step tutorial and help article for anything a basic user is going to do has Ubuntu based commands included.

For some variety, I recently switched from x11 to Wayland and it fixed some problems I was having with game input.

I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

That’s not blocking the fingerprinting, that obfuscating the data. The fact that you are doing that itself becomes part of the fingerprint being built. Services like Tor or Chameleon don’t stop the fingerprinting process running, they just make it more difficult (but not impossible) to tie the fingerprint to your actual identity.

That’s not the fingerprinting happening client side, that’s just information supply. Fingerprinting is about what the server does with that information.

You can’t really “block” fingerprinting. You can obfuscate it a bit, but the fingerprinting process happens server side, not on your device. So whether or not your system sends whatever age verification signal becomes a part of its fingerprint.

I was expecting civil discourse and a level-headed response.

He may have been hoping for that, but surely he didn’t truely expect it. The FOSS community can barely have a civil discussion about filesystems.

We are talking about legislation. Unless it’s very specifically targeted legislation, the conversation always is about the general public.

Then why would they be relevant to a discussion about legislation that affects the general public?

You honestly believe that the general public is going to suddenly rush to chromium or Firefox forks?

That question was rhetorical. Apple and Google account for 95% of the browser market.