I burn exactly one DVD every year.

The school where I teach wants us to deposit all tests done in digital format (I teach programming) at the end of the year on a DVD-RW.

I keep an old USB DVD drive around specifically for this, but I also have some old PCs that I could use. I use k3b to make these discs.

My first thought was “Oh wow, I actually bought a lot of stuff back in the day, most of which has been removed”, but then I realized that I haven’t bought anything from google play in well over 10 years. Time flies…

If I had to guess, the second curve allows the GPU to boost higher than the first one, so it generates more heat.

This sounds similar to one of my projects that could use some extra love: https://github.com/adolfintel/tdf

I will not register any of my applications with this fascist garbage, I’d rather deprecate them and stop developing on android altogether.

It actually happened to me today on Arch.

I updated the system, including the kernel, everything went smoothly with no errors or warnings, I rebooted, and it said the ZSTD image created by mkinitcpio was corrupt and it failed to boot.

I booted the arch install iso, chrooted into my installation and reinstalled the linux package, rebooted, and it worked again.

I have no explanation, this is on a perfectly working laptop with a high end SSD, no errors in memtest, not overclocked, and I’ve been using this Arch install for over a year.

The chances of the package being corrupt when I downloaded it and the hash still being correct are astronomically low, the chances of a cosmic ray hitting the RAM at just the right time are probably just as low, the fact that mkinitcpio doesn’t verify the images that it creates is shocking, the whole thing would have been avoided on an immutable distro with A/B partitions.