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This is the real answer. Other apps might be bottlenecked by IO so the CPU doesn’t work as hard. Get faster disks, the CPU will see more use. Since top is so small that it loads into memory almost instantly, and has no need for further IO, the CPU is free to spin all the way!

People get worked up when CPU usage is high, but unless there’s a resource leak somewhere, that just means the computer is working at full efficiency.

It would be very very arbitrary of Steam to bar a game based on the language it’s written on.

It’s not just that. I’m a techie. I’ve been in the industry for decades. I know my way around computer very well.

I want to like Jellyfin and I want to ditch Plex (even though I have a lifetime license) because of what it has become and where it’s headed.

That said, the other day my Plex server had some issues that took me a while to figure out. Since when it failed I just wanted to watch an episode of a series and relax, I once again fired up the JF client. I couldn’t get seek to work, I had to manually find and download subtitles (that’s not always the case but when it is, it’s pretty annoying), and ultimately I couldn’t watch my series at all as playback would randomly stop, the player would close and I’d be back at the menu, without the position having been recorded and with no way to fast-forward as seek didn’t work at all.

I ended up spending 15min figuring out what was wrong and fixing Plex, then watched my series undisturbed.

Like I said, I want to drop Plex for JF, but in the 3 years or so that I’ve been running both, every time I fire up JF I end up running back to Plex as I just want to sit back and watch a bloody series or movie.

As others mentioned, it’s a programming paradigm. It and discussions around it have zero implications outside of programming.

People can write great applications using it or using any other paradigm. Same is true for terrible applications.

Some people love it, some people hate it, most are somewhere in between and think it has their merits and tradeoffs, and that it can be used where it makes sense, but shouldn’t where it doesn’t.

Heated discussions are very common in tech circles over things that have zero practical implications outside our own little world, and this is one of them. 😄

Of course it is. I’m not disputing the fact that different people have different preferences and needs. I’m disputing the idea that a restaurant should never have a phone line unless it’s used to take reservations.

Yeah possibly. The article doesn’t specify it but I’ve seen systems that would give you the automated message but still put you through if you stayed on the line.

I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

To answer the question, no - you’re not the only one. People have written and talked about this extensively.

Personally, I think there’s a lot more nuance to the answer. Also a lot has been written about this.

You mention “communities that are security conscious”. I’m not sure in which ways you feel this practice to be less secure than alternatives. I tend to be pretty security conscious, to the point of sometimes being annoying to my team mates. I still use this installation method a lot where it makes sense, without too much worry. I also skip it other times.

Without knowing a bit more about your specific worries and for what kinds of threat you feel this technique is bad, it’s difficult to respond specifically.

Feel is fine, and if you’re uncomfortable with something, the answer is generally to either avoid it (by reading the script and executing the relevant commands yourself, or by skipping using this software altogether, for instance), or to understand why you’re uncomfortable and rationally assess whether that feeling is based on reality or imagination - or to which degree of each.

As usual, the real answer is - it depends.

I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.

See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.

None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.

The problem is that some of the block lists are just too eager on the blocking.

I don’t see how the author can claim that NextDNS or AdGuard are any better in that regard though, as they rely on the same lists. 🤦

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50887893

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/94042/alcohol-most-harmful-drug-based-multicriteria/

Alcohol is a lot worse than “sleep, sloppy fighting and risky driving”.

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.