Are you serious? "Ice dam breaks" is a concern now?

How much of an effect will that have? Any studies done on it? Do they take into account the rising of Antarctica, Greenland, etc. as the weight of the ice sheet lessens? Which would cause lowering of the Mantle around it, so lowering the sea level? This is hard to even measure, let alone predict. All we know is that it is a slow process. You know, glacial. As in, moving centimeters per year. I think beach properties are safe for now.

What? Melting the floating ice does not raise the sea level? You sir, must be one of them Climate Deniers, I've heard of. Next you'll tell me that the elites should stop buying property close to sea level, on artificial sand islands in the Emirates? How daaarreeee you? :)

They will tell you what is unclear, missing, or obsolete. Fresh eyes, and all that...

My account number should tell you I was in IT for a long time, on Slashdot since 2008. The recession of 2008 and the bailouts after that showed to all the crookedness of the financial system. Which caused the inception and growth of Bitcoin. That's all.

You are wasting your time here. MOAR regulations are obviously the answer to everything. Govern me harder, daddy! Slashdotters are mostly left-leaning, so they look to the government to protect them from the evil corporations, banks, viruses, bad words on the Internet.... As if politicians, big CEOs and bankers are not parts of the same elitist group, growing up together, studying in the same schools, living in the same neighborhoods, switching jobs around the public and private sector all the time. Today, a big tech executive; tomorrow, a lobbyist in Washington, next Tuesday; an expert to the congressional committee for regulating big tech...

Meanwhile, a handful of Open Source projects, like Bitcoin, Monero and very few others are trying to provide an alternative to the current banking system. The banking system is a giant scam. But yeah, the government will save us... With more regulations...

AV1 hardware codec, I hope? "Professional" video-editing puts strain on the SSD, that "normal" uses don't.

For a "desktop replacement" I would go for a laptop with AMD CPU. Luckily, I don't need one now - Covid made many of us work from home, so no need to carry beefy laptops around. We have our luxurious battle-station PCs at home, with good keyboards, multiple big screens, and oodles of processing power, right?

For "light and thin" laptop with ARM CPU, I have PineBook Pro. Costs $200 (no Microsoft tax on it), can play HD videos, battery lasts all day.

The future for most users is web apps in the cloud. Not for the nerds, but we are a small and unprofitable market. If Intel fails, so what? Windows works fine on AMD. If ARM CPUs become better, or RISK-V, or whatever, Windows can be ported on them.

The way things are going with Windows-Linux integration, Windows will become a Linux DE. It makes sense for everyone involved. Windows is not the cache cow for Microsoft anymore, so they will chuck it on top of Linux and save themselves a ton of development effort to keep a proprietary kernel.

... to be biassed in favor of the Democrats by 6-8%

You can't trust the leftists, but you can trust them to behave like leftists. The people with university degrees in Sociology and such, who manage the pollsters, design the polls, and interpret the raw data, are overwhelmingly left leaning.

The scenario of 2016 happens again in 2020, and will happen in 2024. At the last moment, the margin between the candidates will disappear or even reverse, "explained" by some late event that in reality did not change votes. The pollsters will cover their asses and play the same trick next time.

My FreeNAS is a re-designed old desktop with 8GB RAM and houses all my media files. Works fine. When I use my SSD pool, it saturates a gigabit network connection.

My FreeNAS box works fine with 8GB RAM and 20TB of disk space. Oh, and a couple of jails working, using RAM too. Hard to administer? A gentoo user like yourself finds the GUI of FreeNAS hard?

The default setting for max ARC allocation can be changed, if you don't like it. ZFS works fine with 100MB RAM cache. It becomes slow, like btrfs, because it can't use RAM to optimize reading and writing. You take away one of its strengths. But it works fine with low RAM, no problem.

It was Sun's doing. Scott McNealy disliked Linux and wanted to make OpenSolaris, ZFS, and everything they released as "open source" to be incompatible with the Linux kernel. Hence, the CDDL was born. They could have used any of the popular Open Source licenses, but they chose to make it difficult to integrate in Linux.

However - that does not mean that the license is really incompatible! Lawyers who deal with intellectual Property have looked at it for Canonical, and determined that it is compatible as a kernel module. They are confident, that if challenged in court, Canonical will win. It may take years, like the SCO case, but eventually OpenZFS will be in the clear for Linux. And maybe then Linus will reconsider.

Btrfs is a non-starter. They have a smaller developer community than OpenZFS, so they will keep lagging behind. If btrfs is to catch up to OpenZFS, a company has to finance the effort. As it is, left on the community, it lingers since forever.

Why is 1GB per TB of disk space "insane" for the home user? How many TB of disk space the home user has? Do you know how much space multiple Chrome tabs take?

RAM is good for nobody, if it is unused. Why not use it for caching disk operations, as ZFS does, or for caching network traffic, as Chrome does? As long as it it released to other processes when needed, where is the problem?

Same here. Intel and nVidia compete for the most sleazy marketing company in the hardware business. They release buggy and expensive products, fuck'em. Intel is truly fucked now, the company's internal climate is poison, it's rotting from the inside. It would take great manages and complete transformation of the company to be competitive again. But that is nearly impossible with giant companies, like Intel, so... if you own stock, sell.

Basically. he is one of us. "One of us! One of us!"