You’d win that bet. https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/fox-cites-ownership-appliances-downplay-hardship-poverty-america

Not really, but I expect they’d like to keep it that way.

Due care, technically.

Blind people exist

And in completely unrelated news, why can’t I get cheap fresh produce any more? Where did my favorite taco truck go???

I’d say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.

But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.

Not really, no. If it was about how media platforms in general are used for propaganda then maybe it would be.

Yeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.

But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).

Most small business doesn’t have that kind of capital reserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

Someone should inform whoever made that change. If a package is split in a new release, the initial state should match the final as closely as possible, in this case by installing the new optional dependencies automatically. (Although I’m not sure why they’d want to split everything out like that anyway; no other VLC distribution does that, so splitting is itself a violation.)

Maybe Manjaro might be an alternative? I haven’t personally used it. I don’t like this kind of surprise, so I stick to boring distros like Debian. I used to use CentOS but it was too boring.

Recover the accounts and close them?

Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/

Most web servers already use the Host header.

What’s your budget?

So far, they seem to be right.

This reminds me of the time Putin stole a Super Bowl ring. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

Apks can be unpacked. There are plenty of offline scanners with high or no size limits too.

There are probably also Android-specific scanners.

If you’re buying used you’re not directly funding Google.

That’ll work great up until the kid finds out about changing the MAC address.

A Chromebook?