I don't buy that at all. If you read about Apollo, and before that, you'll see that simply this stuff is hard and many times you have things "half-assed" and just take the risk. Another case is the Space Shuttle..

With that said I think Boeing has been too unreliable for manned space flight. I don't trust much the "we're just taking time to gather more data" and this to me is the bad part about private companies: they have no compulsion to be truthful to the public.

What are you on about? Yes they made sure their gadgets were easy to use, but Apple and Jobs were the pinnacle of "locking you in" on their ecosystem for the profit of it. Sure they weren't as careless about users when compared to Microsoft but they weren't too favourable of you using anything else. They invented this stuff.

That's because these consoles and source code are not always compatible. To make them it would cost them time, money and the compromise to maintain them.

I would rather these companies to be forced to open source their older hardware and source code, so the community could do something with them and not have all the hardware laid to waste. Or at least support the development of emulators

What do you even mean as serious contender? I've been using Linux for almost 15 years without an issue on CPU, and I've used it almost only on very modest machines. I feel we're not getting your whole story here.

On the other hand whenever I had to do something IO intensive on windows it would always crawl in these machines

Great, I'll be a bit absolute and say that if a corporation doesn't want to use my GPL code I see it as a good thing, corporations tend to be soulless leeches.

I was caught by surprise and for some reason this joke clicked so much that I laughed for a while. Kudos

Thanks for your answers. I wasn't able to get what I wanted to work but that's because the device used broadcast for discoverability which doesn't work through subnets. I pivoted to something else

Or perhaps it will come from the right? Undefined behaviour is the magic word

Religion is the word you're looking for.

I'm currently looking for a 13'' computer (or a small 14''), I'd love to support Framework as they are exactly what I'm looking to support... But, they still don't ship to my country and I don't want to spend so much for a laptop (and I don't need very modern features on a personal machine).

This means I'll end up buying a used ThinkPad to serve my needs for the next 4/5 years. Though, If they did ship to my country I would be spamming my employee everyday to buy them.

"Ghost Of Perdition" enters the room ..

Now that's the funniest utopian phrase

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That's not Linux, it's just you making excuses.

Haha no drugs in that article at least. I can't find it but I think it was either for diabetes or asthma

It depends on your needs. I have minis that cost <100$ and have others that cost 500$. My cheapest mini has currently 3TB of backups of my personal things, so it serves my needs very cheaply. I don't need a GPU so it keeps the costs down.

I read somewhere that someone was using anonymous currencies to buy life saving medicine from "non traditional" markets because they were much much cheaper. Let me see if I find the article

This is per capita for sure

They are power and space efficient, and usually very quiet. That's fascinating enough.

Typical hackers

Screw that, go check the original definition of hacker. Those who do bad business with computers are "black hats" not "typical hackers"