Why swap is still relevant on modern systems, regardless of the amount of RAM available: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
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One day I am going to reach the height of technological sophistication, and every clock in my house will handle daylight savings automatically.
I'm not there yet. I think modern appliances are getting better though.
(Does a microwave really need to know the current time?)
USB-A connectors seem absolutely massive when the majority of my connectors are USB-C. With hindsight, maybe the original USB standard could have been smaller.
USB 1 came out in 1996, way before the modern smartphone, so I assume it was more focused on desktop devices.
Amazing blog post about running a modern Linux kernel on Chumby hardware, investigating bad CPU numbers from top, and finding a Linux kernel bug from 2009!