Re: "neither Meltdown or Spectre is much of a threat to a home user"
Yep you got that right, but you are still a dumbass.
You see it all exists in a cloud, and unless you are a blo much smarter than I you are there too.
Linus has had to set back a distro because of this, not the first one and probably not the last. But I have been in the argument where it is it a software problem or a hardware problem with talking heads before and it is pretty clear at this point that it is a hardware problem that is fucking up a software guys life.
So take your gadgets and go home.