Because I’m not an anarchist. There is a role for government in maintaining its monopoly on the use of force.

But nothing else.

Competition.

Without force, how can they stop a small player from offering a competitive option?

Ark uses p7zip…

It’s odd that you think it’s fundamental to capitalism when it’s exactly the opposite. True capitalism is an unfettered marketplace.

What we have now is a system here the profits are private, but the losses are socialized.

You may think that’s an effect of capitalism, but it most definitely is not.

You are conflating a system of governance with a system of economics. And I get it, because in a controlled economy, the government is usually the one doing the controlling.

What we have is something in the middle, taking the worst aspects of truly free-market capitalism, and marrying it with the worst aspects of a controlled economy.

Our government the picks winners in this setup we have. Instead of letting the market decide.

Your issue is that you see all the things this half-breed, partially-socialist economy gives us, and you blame it on the market. But the market didn’t get us here.

History tells me what will happen if we finally give in, and give total control of the economy over to the politicians. And I do not want that for my children, or their children.

A bureaucratic regulation doesn’t actually do what it purports to do, and which is the entire point of it’s existence?

No way.

Who could’ve forseen that?!

Not exactly. And larger companies simply CANT destroy competition without assistance from the government.

If you are free to choose what to buy, and who to buy it from, you can choose to buy from the startup. You can choose to buy from the guy running a business out of the back of his pickup. Or out of his garage. Or any number of options.

Problem is, right now we have our government enabling monopolies. Propping up failing, or non-profitable businesses by making it illegal to do business without spending millions or more on regulations that seem good on the surface, but when you start to dig into them, you see the vast majority of them were actually pushed by the big name businesses to stifle competition.

Our wallets should be the only regulation. Would you willingly buy products from a company that doesn’t respect the environment? No? Well guess what! That’s the power of the free market.

There’s, right now, a hybrid truck manufacturer in Canada that is staring down the barrel of excessive regulations that will limit their ability to build hybrid semi trucks.

How many other would-be entrepreneurs simply don’t even bother trying because there’s no way they can afford it?

How many small 1 to 2 person businesses would be in existence right now to compete with all these large companies?

But if history is any indicator, they will. “Too big to fail!”

What’s crazy is, people will say “See how capitalism fails us?” when that is socialized capitalism. The government should not be bailing out any companies. If they can’t survive without government money, they don’t need to exist.

In my case, it’d be fine. I already mainly use data for phone calls, and I also have 2 phones, one of which is work-provided, so I’ll still have communications…

If I had this in the US, I’d be cancelling my cellular service entirely, I’d still keep my home service though, to VPN into it for a bit more security when using a public wifi connection.

I would also just transfer my phone number to one of those cheap voip providers, then just use voip from my phone everywhere.

So were they.

This is a mute switch for me.

Yep. All the Linux fanboys always say “Arch wiki this” and “Arch wiki that” while the FreeBSD handbook has been the king of documentation for over 2 decades.

IPMI + BMC are wonderful things.

I first started with Linux in 1994, with Slackware.

However, I’ve preferred FreeBSD for years, now. The only reason I use linux at all is Steam. There’s been work getting it working in FreeBSD, but not enough, and it basically only works on machines with an Nvidia GPU. And I’ve also been Team Red for literally decades.

Ah well.

Total lack of stability, not in “crashing programs” but in the entire idea of “throw it all out and start over” that seems to 100% infest every single Linux developer every few years.

Not to mention the total loss of every single bit of UNIX philosophy over the years.

“Everything’s a file.” ? Not according to Linux, not any more.

All the various *ctls necessary to run and inspect your system have completely gotten out of control.

Due to two things:

1. The fact that our washer and dryer are actually out in our garage.

And,

2. We live in a very hot and humid area, which accelerates mold and mildew.

We just don’t start loads that will be unattended, even for a few hours. Because laundry left in the washer for even as little as an additional 45 minutes will need, at a minimum, to be rewashed, or possibly even just completely thrown out, as our clothes would have begun to get very mildewed indeed.

Houses are too big + the yards too small.

No thanks.

Pretty sure he meant gated community.

When people talk about CPU limitations on the rPi, they aren’t talking about just the actual processing portion of the machine. There are also a lot of other corners cut for basically all SBCs. Including bus width and throughput.

The problem is that when you use a software raid, like ZFS, or it’s precursors, you are using far more than the CPU. You’re also using the data bus between the CPU and the IO controller.

“CPU usage” indicators don’t really tell you how active your data buses are, but how active your CPU is, in having to process information.

Basically, it’s the difference between IO wait states, and CPU usage.

The Pi is absolutely a poor choice for input/output, period. Regardless of your “metrics” tell you, it’s data bus simply does not have the bandwidth necessary to control several hard drives at once with any sort of real world usability.

You’ve wasted your money on an entire ecosystem by trying to make it do something it wasn’t designed, nor has the capability, to do.

It’s bus limited, not necessarily CPU limited.