Posts by richardw42

Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

Yawn

Oh noz, more boring data stored about me somewhere for a purpose I don't care about.

I am so concerned. I am traumatized. I must make my placard, travel to the HQ of Meta and smack the head employee over the head with it.

Chance I'll not enjoy my VR headset due to this when I eventually buy one? 0%

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro would be the best Android flagship on the market – were it not for the US-China trade war

Re: "In fairness to Huawei, this isn't its fault."

Wow! You moved those goalposts quickly.

C'mon then, "riddled with backdoors" you said. Prove it.

The power of Bill compels you: A server room possessed by a Microsoft-hating, Linux-loving Demon

Memory problems

Another Windows cs. Linux hardware issue.

Had an old box with Windows on it and decided to install some flavour of Linux on it to use as email/ftp/file server.

Windows was running OK, the odd app crash now and then but no big problems.

Installed Linux.

Would boot and work for a few minutes and then fall over with kernel panic. Every time.

Back to Windows (on a spare HDD), worked fine.

Linux, crash.

Turned out to be memory.

Don't know the difference between Windows and Linux kernel memory usage but Linux was regularly hitting the bad memory where Windows would avoid it. Just the occasional app using that bad memory causing the app to crash.