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The major Linux providers already offer 1st party supported Linux on AWS. Both RHEL and Ubuntu instances offer support contracts from their respective companies, as well as Amazon …

Blizzard might not be targeted at the younger demographic, but teenagers still play CoD, which is made by Activision. ActiBlizz also owns King, which makes games like Candy Crush, …

To be fair, it comes with your World of Warcraft retail subscription, and you don't have to purchase the original game again nor the latest retail expansion (Battle for Azeroth) to…

With Parity, afaik they had a uninitialized contract owner, which could be and was initialized and subsequently caused the contract to suicide. This has a better writeup: https://m…

If you can't find it or it is too scratched, they also sell the full edition of RCT2 on GoG for cheap https://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_2

Probably something along the lines of secure erase. Most modern SSDs/NVMe drives are encrypted by default in firmware. All the firmware needs to do is throw away the old keys and g…

I agree with most of what you said, but Kaby Lake had issues with Hyperthreading, and Haswell had to fully disable the TXT extensions, both modified (fixed/disabled) through microc…

Newer steppings of Ryzen have a fix applied, and AMD is allowing people to RMA those processors affected. Threadripper is unaffected by the bug. Source: https://www.phoronix.com/sc…

Are you trying to say that BTRFS is supposed to compete feature-to-feature with ZFS? It's not. https://lwn.net/Articles/342892/ >I had a unique opportunity to take a detailed look …

> deprecated and unsupported LXC Where did you hear this? This is news to me. https://linuxcontainers.org/ and https://github.com/lxc/lxc both seem active and supported by Canonica…

It was a euphemism, though I don't know how much RedHat would like you swinging around a binary build of RHEL, but IANAL

It depends on your threat model. Are you just wanting to get around your ISP selling your personal data and (in the future) slowing down your internet to certain sites? Host a VPS …

Essentially, the Captains word is law while on the plane. He is responsible for the safety of everyone on board. According to FAA FAR 91.3, a. The pilot in command of an aircraft i…

That's exactly what they did. Someone up the chain made a mistake. Other airlines board must-ride passengers (i.e. crew deadheading to the next destination) before passengers, but …

He probably meant droplets, they are KVM VMs.

ZFS is not GPL? I dunno, I like feeling safe when I do kernel upgrades knowing even if for whatever reason my ZFS module doesn't compile/work under the new kernel, I won't be left …

As a business, I completely agree - streamlining to focus on what matters. As a individual person, I am also the kind who hosts my own mail server - and, well, everything else <- N…

I host my own GitLab instance - if it goes down all I have is myself to blame - and honestly with their pre-packaged software it's super simple. And took me another 15 minutes to g…

Yes, when I was still in high school, I had set up a Munin graphing node on AWS. Well, what I didn't realize at the time was that Munin likes to use a lot of disk IO every time it …

I use OBS with the NVEC codec - the one that is installed with the NVIDIA driver, and if you are recording anything, regardless of 3D or 2D, it is your best bet. It's especially ni…

The digital optical port is baked into the 3.5mm jack on most upper-end laptops and Macs. Though sadly my MacBook Air does not have one.