Taylor Swift has been the biggest selling artist but plenty of people will never have listened to her music, football is the most popular sport in the world but many will never have watched a match, etc. To sum up with a statement of the obvious: the world’s a big place so even very popular things can still be relatively niche!

Exactly, the cheapest device is the one you already have!

Is it that crazy? He’s just a game streamer, right? Plenty of people have probably never watched any streaming, let alone from one particular guy.

I meant bad luck that you bought a machine with loud fans generally!

FYI Lemmy already supports RSS, for instance I could add this feed to any RSS reader to follow you

Ah, bad luck

Is it the kind you can open up and clean the fans?

What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

Imagine you went through the pain of learning it to make a web front end. You want to make back end things too, but they all require knowing different languages. You’re not learning another language, learning this one was hard enough! Easier to keep using the same horrible language for everything, of course.

I’ve seen them way cheaper in Britain, guess I must have been looking at the right time

You could probably buy a 360 or ps3 and a copy of the game for that price!

Maybe I have had failures and haven’t even noticed!

Yeah I’d definitely agree with not using them for critical backups. I think they’re generally fine as long as they’re never holding your only copy of something, but then I’d probably say that about every kind of drive…

the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high

Out of interest how high is “fairly high”? I don’t think I’ve ever had a USB flash drive fail!

Thanks!

Thanks!

What did you do to get the nice terminal output with the colour display and fedora ASCII art? Just a copy+paste in bashrc?

If your phone is encrypted and you factory reset it I believe the encryption key is wiped so the data is gone (unless MI5 are really keen on spending a lot of time piecing it back together, I guess)