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One counterpoint - even with a weak speed to capacity ratio it could be very useful to have a lot of storage for incremental backup solutions, where you have a small index to check what needs to be backed up, only need to write new/modified data, and when restoring you only need to read the indexes and the amount you're actually restoring. This saves time writing the data and lets you keep access to historical versions.

There's two caveats here, of course, assuming those are not rewritable. One, you need to be able to quickly seek to the latest index, which can't reliably be at the start, and two, you need a format that works without rewriting any data, possibly with a footer (like tar or zip, forgot which one), which introduces extra complexity (though I foresee a potential trick where the previous index can leave an unallocated block of data to write the address of the next index, to be written later)

If you're on Linux, I don't think a windows VM is very useful for gaming? Most games run fine in proton, and the ones that don't, probably don't because of anticheat that will also refuse to run in a VM. I do know of one niche case that needed to be run in a VM until recently, that being SS13, but that was because of an engine dependency on IE for webviews.

But then the poor won't freeze to death... Can we fit liquid nitrogen in the budget instead?

The weakest part of any security system is the people.

Well, maybe not any, but most ;D

That's an interesting point, but one small counterpoint - the artist signature in this case seems to me more like the graffiti, an individual making art trying to get their name out there from behind the corporations.

Using an app instead of a website is great... As long as the app is well-implemented and performant, and not just a website wrapper, and ideally not forced on you. And absolutely ridiculous if the app is just a webapp, but they still force you to use the app instead of putting the webapp on their website.

Evolutionary pressure to survive, for one, since we need heterosexual intercourse to breed. I'm all for freedom in this regard, but come on, heterosexuality is the default because it's how we evolved and thus what the species needed to survive. Explaining how it's the default is good as part of the greater understanding in science, but you're probably not going to have success trying to study it in isolation, you want to look at the "exceptions" and figure out where and how they diverged.

Reminds me of The Flintstones Split the Atom

It's half-joking, since the presented move is not a thing in 5D Chess, since the boards aren't placed on one plane, but instead exist on new axes (one temporal and one parallel-dimension).

Shouldn't it be more efficient to download only the changes and patch the existing files?

As people mentioned, that becomes problematic with a distro like arch. You could easily be jumping 5-6 versions with an update, with some more busy packages and updating less frequently. This means you need to go through the diffs in order, and you need to actually keep those diffs available.

This actually poses two issues, and the first one is that software usually isn't built for this kind of binary stability - anything compiled/autogenerated might change a lot with a small source change, and even just compressing data files will mess it up. Because of that, a diff/delta might end up not saving much space, and going through multiple of them could end up bigger than just a direct download of the files.

And the second issue is, mirrors - mirrors need to store and provide a lot of data, and they're not controlled by the distribution. Presumably to save on space, they quickly remove older package versions - and when I say older, I mean potentially less than a week old. In order for diffs/deltas to work, you'd need the mirrors to not only store the full package files they already do (for any new installs), but now also store deltas for N days back, and they'd only be useful to people who update more often than every N days.

I am a fan of Valve, but this is just way exaggerated. For example, encourages you to save money by having sales? Isn't that about manipulating you into buying more games than you would otherwise, because you perceive the value as being better?

I'm on the fence about the topic, but you've gotta be dense to believe CSAM has nothing to do here. The accusation is one of CSAM, so the argument is whether the scene is CSAM or not.

In a perfect world the question would be simple, but in the reality we live in, you have to consider if the art will be misused - and that's assuming the artist is honest about their intentions in the first place.