If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

No. A car empowers me to do things i cannot do myself. That is very different than taking on mundane tasks to free up more time for more minecraft.

Or kids. Or work.

FreeBSD does not have a desktop installer yet.. the powerpoint alludes to that being a coming feature though.. I think people here should chill out about her not using FreeBSD as the daily driver.. I use FreeBSD daily in my work, but no, I don't on desktop...

I wonder if they will come to their senses and revert the decision? It does seem a bit boneheaded to drop Linux support on the Basic tier... What actual reason would they need to do that?

Interesting analogy but there are many old people in Casinos...

It's not about that, it's about the incentive...

So you decrypt each time you need it? What is the difference in the attack surface?

What I don’t need doesn’t need to live unencrypted in my RAM. Of course I do. It is standard behaviour of iOS, and of a lot of password managers. If someone grabs my laptop and runs, at least they can’t capture my hn account.

Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.

Is it not the fact that Win32 is not the dominant platform anymore? It would be mobile phones now, right?

Getting goods and people over there, I guess..

Yeah, and that is a great example of how it doesn’t work.