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There was a very simple phone from Samsung a few years back that had a solar cell on the back.

Since the battery lasted over a week anyway, you could easily double the battery life by just having it in indirect light.

Modern phones are guzzling so much power that it's hardly useful there.

If the vast majority of people are affected, is it really "extreme" anymore?

And a whole lot of content that I frankly would have preferred not to have seen.

When you're 12 and your parents have no idea what you're doing, you'll end up in very dark corners.

And who does that?

I think you don't really get my point. I'm not arguing that there are no ways to archive data. I'm arguing that there are no technologies available for average Joe.

It is hardly a good strategy to basically set up half a datacenter at home.

Thin concrete slabs are extremely brittle.

Is it? It's rather expensive and would you really know, if the data is gone or corrupted?

You'd have to download every single file in certain intervals and check it. That's not really low complexity.

But what actually is "archival"?

Like, what technology normal person has access to counts at least as enthusiast level archival?

Magnetic tape, optical media, flash, HDD all rot away, potentially within frighteningly short timeframes and often with subtle bitrot.

Why exactly does MS gaming employ over 20.000 people?

It's usually not a question of legality, but efficiency.

It's easy and efficient to bust someone for seeding, but busting hundreds for the odd file you can prove they downloaded is expensive and takes forever.

If some bot reacts to this comment, you'll make the developer very unhappy.

And let's be real here, it's not too rare, the current victims simply don't count as much.

All those "tropical" diseases seem to be completely irrelevant as long as only poor people in a developing country get it. But as soon as a good white person dies, it's defcon 11 and suddenly it's really important to develop something expensive to help the rich countries.

The long-term goal is for Rust to overtake C in the kernel (from what I understand

Your understanding wrong. Rust is limited to some very specific niches within the kernel and will likely not spread out anytime soon.

critical code gets left untouched (a lot of the time) because no one wants to be the one that breaks shit

The entire kernel is "critical". The entire kernel runs - kind of by definition - in kernel space. Every bug there has the potential for privilege escalation or faults - theoretically even hardware damage. So following your advice, nobody should every touch the kernel at all.