When they say they can recover it, but will not recover it, it is indeed on them.
Especially since, I have the password. It didn’t work and my recovery phrase didn’t either. That’s a technical issue. Something happened to my account.
And they told me that the email they sent me about the account validating it was mine, was not proof enough that the account was mine. Still on them.
My experience with Proton was not great. I signed up, with the intention of switching. Had some IRL stuff come up, so while I was using it, I hadn’t migrated everything and it was a good thing I didn’t. I had a password issue. I couldn’t sign in. I admit, I should have setup the recovery email, but I’m a dumbass.
So, I opened a ticket, and in the end, they couldn’t help me. Even though I had the recovery phrase (which didn’t work), and I had the email verification they sent me with the date, time and header info showing it came from them to me, and the mail ID. Even though I had that, they wouldn’t consider it proof that I setup the account and wouldn’t recover it for me.
And because they won’t reuse email addresses, I lost my email address.
To me, the only part that was my fault was not setting up a recovery email. I still have my username and password in my password manager. But not being able to recover it, when it just stopped working, and I couldn’t get my account back, is on them.
So many things wrong with this.
I am not a programmer by trade, and even though I learned programming in school, it’s not a thing I want to spend a lot of time doing, so I do use AI when I need to generate code.
But I have a few HARD rules.
I execute all code and commands. Nothing gets to run on my system without me.
Anything which can be even remotely destructive, must be flagged and not even shown to me, until I agree to the risk.
All information and commands must be verifiable by sourcing documentary links, or providing context links that I can peruse. If documentary evidence is not available, it must provide a rationale why I should execute what it generates.
Every command must be accompanied by a description of what the command will do, what each flag means, and what the expected outcome is.
I am the final authority on all matters. It is allowed to make suggestions, but never changes without my approval.
Without these constraints, I won’t trust it. Even then, I read all of the code it generates and verify it myself, so in the end, if it blows something up, I bear sole responsibility.
That is entirely a shit at managing memory problem.
If you have 1 MB of RAM left, firstly, your OS has not properly managed it’s resources. It should have reserved system RAM. Secondly, a good memory manager will have swapped out unused, or low priority pages.
And that’s not just a system issue. A well developed piece of software will unload (or never load) parts of the software that are not needed at runtime.
I’m going to give you a great example I just read about today, about bad programming practices. The install of Helldivers 2 has been reduced from 154GB to 23 GB. That’s a reduction of 85%. This was driven by de-duplication of code. So, while this is a storay about storage space, ask how many modules and functions were duplicated, and how many of those were loaded independently into RAM.
Bad programming in one area, means bad programming in all areas.
With your 1 MB example, I would ask if all of the devs who created all of the other programs on the system had written better and more efficient code, would you still need more RAM? The answer is no.
Because it wasn’t. After SP1, and moreso after SP2 it was perfectly fine.
This is my point.
Right, but that’s not a high memory problem, that’s a Windows is shit at managing memory problem.
If MS fixed that, you could easily run memory hot at >90% without issue.
It’s also a software developers are making poor products problem. Even back when I was on Windows, I swapped out MS Office for Libre Office and then OnlyOffice. In both cases, my system performed better just by not running MS Office. That’s not a memory usage problem.
On my work laptop. which runs Windows, I removed the entire Adobe suite, which I don’t use for anything, and my overall system responsiveness increased. Again, not a memory issue, an poor programming issue.
Devs (the companies, not the individual programmers) know that users will throw more RAM at a problem, so it absolves them of the need to write better code. If Windows had a better memory manager, and Office and Adobe were more efficient, you wouldn’t need more RAM.
Also, just to clarify a point. Right now, web browsers, the worst abuser of memory, are taking up 24GB of ram on my system.
Because I have no memory swapping issues, I keep many open web browsers, which most people can’t if they are on Windows because it’s crap at memory management.
So our list grows to, crappy memory management on Windows, crappy development of web browsers, crappy development of applications, and crappy web pages (as you say).
None of that is a low memory problem, it’s all poor software development. When RAM was super expensive, developers (again companies, not individuals) got lazy and stopped caring about efficiency.
We don’t need more RAM, we need better code. There is no reason anyone running normal usage should need that much RAM.
To make my point, I just SSHed into my wife’s Linux PC, which she never closes anything, and this is her memory usage with a bunch of browsers doing all the normal things she does, and multiple spreadsheets open in OnlyOffice.
Memory: Total: 16278284 Used: 6254884 Available: 10023400
Edit: BTW, I do understand your point. You can’t fix any of that. My point is we need to put blame where blame is due. And it’s not that memory is low.
It doesn’t even matter. That chud would be upset if the same happened in reverse, if someone hid meat is their food without telling them.
The problem here is that they have an agenda, and all actions are OK if it means their agenda is met. It’s about, “the ends justify the means”.
People who feel “I’m OK with deceiving someone who disagrees with me” are the worst kind of people. They treat their point of view as the one truth and any action can be justified if it meets the needs of the one truth.
Unpopular opinion here, but Windows Vista was perfectly fine after SP1 was released. I migrated from XP-64 Bit to Vista and all around, it worked just as well (after SP1).
The after SP1 thing is the important bit. Unfortunately, even though a lot of issues were fixed then, it already had it’s reputation as dogshit.
The other thing is, the NT6 kernel was really strong. MS needs to decouple their UI from the kernel. The Window 11 kernel is actually pretty good. It’s the diabolically awful Windows 11 Interface that is the source of so much Windows evil.
High memory usage isn’t a problem by itself. Empty RAM is not being used. How the system performs when something needs RAM is more important.
My system has 96GB of ram, 24 of which is dedicated to a Windows VM. Right now, I have only 3.5Gb free because of everything I’m running.
The important thing is, if I run a new task that requires more RAM, my system will cleanly reallocate the RAM to where it’s needed with no latency or performance hits, or stuttering.
In the meantime, it’s not sitting there, unused and useless.
When I had Windows on this same system, with less RAM, it performed worse when it needed to swap in RAM.
Are you really that obtuse?
The problem isn’t the food, it’s the lie. Maybe you don’t have a problem with being lied, but the rest of us do.
Because i don’t like being deceived.
What do you mean?
What’s going on with Santa?
I wanted something with cutting edge. I like hardware upgrades. I also wanted something I could game on without a lot of fuss, because I was new to Linux. And not that it matters, because you can switch easily, I wanted KDE.
I ended up with Garuda. I’m pretty happy with it.
I’m glad I did choose something which keeps up with the kernel, because I was having power management issues and monitor issues on every other distro I tried before this one, and none of them affected me here. I’m pretty sure the combo or a newer kernel and Plasma 6.something is what did it.
My wife asked me last summer to switch her, because she didn’t like the news she was hearing about “recall” and being forced to have AI.
She is far from techie, but is over a year on Mint with no issues.
She actually switched before me, because I was distro hopping trying to find the right one for me, so I dual booted for a while. But I am 9 months on a single distro and happy to be rid of Windows.
Thing the article conveniently leaves out, at least one of the “retired air force officers” works at (or did, seems to be some obfuscation) Lockheed Martin.
Of course they are against switching, they will lose their cushy lobbyist jobs.
We always have been.
There is a reason no one hates Canada.
If it was a party, we were just quietly cool, while our neighbour got drunk, screamed at the top of their lungs, pissed in the fish tank and randomly punched people.
Articles like this are pissing me off. They keep glossing over the reasons.
One line on “Meanwhile, he has angered Canadians with his many public comments about making their country the “51st state”.”
We had Tarriffs the last time that chunderhead was president, and it didn’t stop us
How about
We have supported the US time and time again, even when we probably shouldn’t have. We got repaid for our loyalty by betrayal.
Fuck that country.
It’s not too late!
Hillary Clinton is a classic example of you can say the right things, but if you’re a smug asshole about it, people won’t like you. She never got that, and apparently still doesn’t.
To be clear, Israel is committing genocide, but she’s right about the fact that TikTok is full of fake bullshit. Both are true.
But she is so fucking smug and self righteous, that even when she says something I agree with, I just want to tell her to fuck off.