BrownianMotion

I prefer cooking on gas (I'm old! so what!), yes I know induction has become a lot better lately. But I renovated my kitchen (myself) about 5 years ago, so nothing is changing in there. My BBQ will also stay gas, but I might switch back to LPG bottles from the servo instead of natural gas.

My gas hot water is where the most of that bill comes from (our country has limited "fees" unlike other countries, and they have to detail all of them, and they get railed if they are bullshit). I am already getting quotes for instant on, electric hot water.

For 6 months of the year my Solar Panels absolutely rock, providing 30A 240V during the day, which means my entire home is grid free powered, even with my reverse cycle AC on full blast during Australia's hottest times.

Solar Panels literally dropped my monthly electricity bill from $600+ per month, to $250 per month (for 6 months) the other 6 months are not so dramatic, but still they help.

We are sick of the arseholes that are running the power companies, and we are sick of the outrageous prices they are charging for electricity.

Simple as that.

10 years ago, my gas bill was $80 a month. Today (and nothing has changed) it is almost $300 a month. Same shit has happened with Electricity and water. They are fucking scum.

They can go fuck themselves. If there was a free version of gas like electricity, I would install it in an instant. (I only use gas for kitchen hob, my BBQ outside - both of which get fuck all use, and my hot water which only really gets used when I wash my balls in the morning.) 300% price hike in 10 years.... They can all suck my balls,

It was only a few weeks ago (maybe 4). Systems are all kept up to date with ansible. Most are Debian but there are few Ubuntu. The two that failed were both Debian.

Granted both that failed have high [virtual] disk usage compared to the other VM's. I cannot remember the failure now, but lots of searching confirmed that it was likely unrecoverable (they could boot, but only into read only). None of the btrfs-check "dangerous" commands could recover it, spitting out tons of errors about mismatching somethings (again, forgotten the error).

My setup is different to yours but not totally different. I run ESXi 8, and I started to use BTRFS on some of my VM's.

I had a power failure, that was longer than the UPS could handle. Most of the system shutdown safely, a few VM's did not. All of the EXT4 VM's were easily recovered (including another one that was XFS). TWO of the BTRFS systems crashed into a non recoverable state.

Nothing I could do to fix them, they were just toast. I had no choice but to recover using backups. This made me highly aware that BTRFS is still not a reliable FS.

I am migrating everything from BTRFS to something more stable and reliable like EXT4. It's simply not worth the headache.

Those decisions include layoffs, most notably Caroline Henrikson, Creative Director, and, Melissa Wu, Director of Community Development.

Seems they might be listening. If their first two hits are 'community development' and 'creative director', then we can only assume they have probably come to the same conclusion you have stated.

Back when Bill Gates was still in his dad's ballsack, I was using UNIX on mainframes.

When he finally got out, and was flapping around on the lounge room rug, we were using PDP-7 and PDP-9's (which were 18 bit..)

Arguably, the OS on these were lesser-UNIX style and more FORTRAN.

But then came the PDP-10 and PDP-11, a bunch of DEC hardware which cemented the way forward to UNIX(like) OS.

None of this hardware cared about Bill's "DOS".

In fact, the last "upgrade" (sad to say) I did, was a BSD based Solaris SunOS around 2005 (at which point MS had acquired it as Santa Cruz Operations (SCO). Where the company I worked for had let go the 'unix' software for "modern" windows and no longer supported the customers in the old version.

So to answer your question about locking down bootloaders, it made no difference. MS DOS was never gonna run on the main steam hardware that was prevalent at the time. Not because it was locked in with us, but because we were locked in with it.

I tend to back it up.

Well, you are subscribing to the Sun.

Its your own shitshow.

No one fucking cares.