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.

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?

Firefox will get HDR on Firefox?

And they’ve answered their own question by listing several valid candidates.

Right. One of the facets of cryptography is rounds: if you apply the same algorithm 10,000 times instead of just one, it might make it slightly slower each time you need to run it, but it makes it vastly slower for someone trying to brute-force your password.

Is that not what it’s always meant?

You can probably disable it entirely by changing the kernel boot options.

Why bother? It would be easier for them to just bool getApproval { return false; }. There, I’ll take my multimillion dollar contract now please (and donate it all to fix this disaster).

There is no process for it because it’s not something you can do. But he’ll just tell the state department to terminate her passports or whatever and refuse her entry to the country.

Yes. There’s no real way to differentiate.

Well not never, you’ve got the Senators.

Which will never not be funny to me since it’s Latin for “old men”.