This is real... I can't even... https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109027407185277123

I used to be this guy. We have huge amount of memory in our storage server. Why would we need swap? Well, once the system started killing programs I read up on swap and how the system handles its caches, especially ZFS ARC.

Short version is that while the system can evict its caches syncronously, it can only async notify ZFS that it should also shrink its caches, but the out-of-memory killer will start killing before ZFS and its kernel counterpart can start to free up memory.

A tiny bit of swap completely solved this, since swapping is sync for the kernel and the OOM killer will wait for it.

Wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?

For desktop? Probably. For laptop, linux support can be awful, because manufacturers keep introducing hardware that don't support standard drivers. Webcam? How about an IPU6 that needs kernel modules just to be detected and then special calibration files just so the image is not a stripey corrupted mess... How about no on-board sound because screw you I guess. How about a non standard USB controller so that you cannot even communicate over your USB ethernet dongle when the wifi is once again some special sauce non standard shit...

These are Dell and Lenovo Yoga machines at the University I work at. Some are absolute garbage where the USB is always powered and will drain the battery when the computer is turned off and no BIOS setting will disable this.

We are now looking into Tuxedo and Framework...

PS.: even windows has issues with these, where you have no touchpad and no USB anything (mouse, keyboard) until you somehow install a driver...

And what is even better, is that microsoft-online.com isn't owned my microsoft. It is a potential phishing site. The correct one is microsoftonline.com

Here in Switzerland UBS forces their custom authenticator on you. If you don't have a "compatible device", they ship you a card and card reader as authenticator. That reader is horrible to use, and has button as smusshy as Haribo Gummybears...

What bothered me more is the steering. How is that supposed to steer? The front wheel is just wedged into the frame.

We value your privacy*

*so high that we'll datamine all of it

I do. You just have to hunt more for the right extension.

• C#: C# by muhammad-sammy
• C++: clangd by llvm-vs-code-extensions
• C++ debugging: CodeLLDB by vadimcn

But it is heavily regulated. They must charge everyone the same for the same plan, no pre-existing conditions, no out of network bullshit. Switzerland is very capitalistic, but it is a heavily regulated capitalism. That doesn't mean that the system is perfect, but I wouldn't say it is close to the uregulated/unenforced hell that is the USA.