Mr Lunduke with his distrowars game should know there are quite a few more distros out there. And there's others too, e.g. Haiku, FreeDOS, SmartOS, Syllable, ReactOS, etc not based on Linux.

How far does this "Ofcom" got to have their head up their arse not to see they're just doing free promotion for a website they disagree with?

How far must the politicians have had their heads up their arses to enact such a broad law and not be all golly gosh m'lord, this one's a folly!

That's the false assumption that unmaintained is insecure. Any old DOS game in Dosbox would be insecure by that logic.

So if I run Dune2 in dosbox, is that a security issue? Of course not, but if you were to load a bitmap from the network and feed it to GTK1 for displaying, there could well be an overlooked issue lurking around. But you need to look at the greater picture, not just "old==insecure"

Wait until Linux can run itself from the top while keeping your work intact.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/1033364/

A private equity firm aptly named EQT bought SuSE from their previous owners in 2018. Now they want to sell it off.

Ofc the distro can be installed for free. Owning the business sets you back some $6 billion.

I see security as a stopgap measure when there's no peace. The best "security" is not to need any in the first place.

SuSE doesn't ship ventoy and the installer does boot and work just fine. It's likely a bug in ventoy. SuSE doesn't test that and why would they?

Perhaps ventoy doesn't like SuSE.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

In the middle of last year, a 9900X was around $350 and 128GB of memory was also around $350. That's very easily "commodity" range.

Damn. I feel old and must've missed that boat. Several other boats too, I guess.

Here I was thinking 16GiB is pretty good. I get to compile LibreOffice in an afternoon. QtWebEngine overnight.

Doesn't 128GiB make rowhammer much more feasible? You'd have 32GiB per DIMM.

Oh well

Two 64GiB DIMMs would be the more likely setup. The current CPUs strongly prefer having only one stick of DDR5 per channel.

The effectiveness of rowhammer depends on how well the manufacturer implemented target row refresh. But the internal ECC on DDR5 should help defend against it somewhat.

Personally I've been in the 24-32GiB range since 2013, and that's despite the fact that I'm still on DDR3.

It even has a template engine! Because the one thing PHP really needs is a good template engine.

Multiple PHP frameworks have template engines. Symfony and others use Twig. Laravel seems to have one called Blade. Smarty has been around for years.

You might not think its necessary, but clearly a lot of people think it is.

I know, but it's ironic imho

It has Twig, a wonderful and solid template engine.

Get off of FB, Twitch and Discord.

There's still choice. My 6 online friends are on signal and they're 5 real people I interact with irl and 1 guy I never met irl.

Im not on either of these. But letting your kid roam the internet is different from back then. It's like marijuana, which is 100 times strong now than 50 years ago.