You're right - they're massively better than spinny bits of plastic in every way. Speed, capacity (1tb tfcard the size of your pinky nail), cost (probably) and longevity. DVD/CD's don't last very well in storage.

I hope this sack of shit burns to death in his own crappy creation some day.

Whilst I share your sentiment, Elon Musk did not create Tesla Motors.

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk only got involved, and later inserted himself on the board and ultimately took it over, after they sought him out for capital investment. I often wonder what they think about that decision today.

A reasonably unbiased write up

Ok, that's fair, thank you.

But distributed geographical sites? Useful for SME's and above, but aside from a few edge cases where friends might want to share hosting resources, is that a homelab thing?

Aimed at self hosting, but S3-compatible and designed to run at different physical locations?

Surely the venn diagram for that has not such a big overlap?

It's a shame. Labour's in the best position it has been to make real change for the first time this century, and it's doing its old thing of tearing itself apart.

But what real-world significance does this have?

None - I don't know of anyone that parses release names. Versions, yes, absolutely, but silly version release names?

I came into the comments to see what other reason there was, but it seems it's a non-story.

You can't, or at least, you can't not support evil in some way and exist in anything approaching normal society.

Everyone has their own tolerance for ethical things, which changes with their daily circumstances. Some people literally can't afford to pay the extra that some such choices cost, or don't have the time to search them out, or just don't have the desire or will. And there's several levels of this too - at least their core inner belief, and what they tell the world they do.

That's exactly what propaganda sounds like!

(Not that I'm saying you're wrong)

I don't think I can agree with that, and I'm a pretty agreeable chap.

In the days when people actually cared about the html layout and readability, FP spammed everything hugely, and inserted a lot of terrible cruft. Inventing zillions of new

<style>

<i>

A few years ago I rather stupidly agreed to take over hosting of a website for someone that was dying. It had been written with FP and it took me months to de-cruft it using a lot of regexp and scrifting. (Some 8,000 images and around 2000 .html files).

For a server os, do things like consider stability and ease of upgrading between major versions.

Debian does both of those things extremely well.

If you're playing around with changing distros and your data is valuable, I'd try and find somewhere to back it up to, myself.

It's only true if it's enforced, isn't it?

So you need the self control required to add this extension for those sites you don't have the self control not to visit too often?

If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.

Ok - and what sort of cpu load do they have?

htop will also show the cpu bars and the breakdown of that - whether it's pure cpu or iowait, which is when the cpu can't do anything because it's waiting on disk or network.

And how's your memory usage looking?

I'm guessing you've already turned it off and on again. If not, seriously, do that. It works more time than it doesn't for random weirdness.

Run 'htop' and sort by CPU (it's a friendlier and better version of 'top'. That'll show you what processes are using the most CPU

Whilst you're in there, check the free memory. If that's low, or swap usage is high, then use htop to sort by memory usage to find what's using the most.

If you see processes you don't recognise, hit google and find out why. It's very unlikely they're malicious, but it's far less common on linux than Windows to have random processes doing unknown stuff. If it's using a lot of cpu or memory, there'll be a reason. It might be a dumb reason, but you will be able to find it out.

And then when you know what the guilty process is, if it is that, and it's not critical - you can stop it with systemctl and narrow down what's afoot.

It's for the best, really.

Gosh, I wonder what stirred them up?

Blame the Romans.

Both words are derived from late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens, ment- ‘mind’.