I prefer CUID

Just to clarify: Yes, I do know not all use cases are appropriate for CUID. But in general when generating ID, I'd use CUID2

Oh you mean privately owned cctv that faces public place. Yeah, I agree it is questionable since public spaces are the jurisdiction of law enforcement. But I can also see it as someone with a hobby of hoarding data, archivists, and the other extreme being as you said, voyeur. But there is no way of knowing hence I also understand your irks towards it.

I didn't specifically comment on GNOME ma dude. Just the other commenter that said most people don't want choice. I think it's not "choice" but it should be "choose". Having to choose can indeed become confusing, so there should be a default or pre chosen choice. Having no choice means you are locked in. Hence my comment. I am having no problem with people not wanting to choose, but people that do not want a choice is when I am starting to have a problem.

I mean systemd didn't force any distro to use their software nor force any other developer to assume systemd is present. Any software that assumes systemd is present is not the fault of systemd itself, in fact I'd argue it is a sign of its success. Argue all you want about systemd being monolithic and single point of failure, at the end of the day, software dev needs some tools, and if systemd already provides it but other software doesn't, of course they will choose systemd.

Technically there is. If the device uses BLE or the phone has some built in hardware shenanigans. There is also a local gateway via ble. I'd argue a simple gateway is not a "server". Scheduling can be done by the device via internal non-volatile storage and RTC

ESP32 is a term that is often used very broadly. If you want to be accurate, ESP32 is a very specific integrated circuit that contains a lot of stuff needed for computation and packaged in a single chip made by Espressif. This chip, usually called SoC/MCU contains the CPU, RAM, ROM, and other peripherals, even wireless communication and encryption primitive.

ESP32 itself contains the following spec:

• Dual core 32-bit CPU with clock speed up to 240MHz
• 520KB of SRAM
• 448KB of ROM

Now, for comparison, the Apollo programs consist of a lot of systems. But arguably, the computer that is responsible to make the landing possible is the guidance computer.

Let's take a look at the spec from wikipedia:

• 15-bit CPU with a clock of 2.048 MHz
• 2048 words RAM (2048×15 = ~30KBit)
• 36864 words ROM (~553KBit)

That alone should give you an idea of how powerful computers have come to. Not to mention the size difference (ESP32 only around 5mm×5mm), power consumption, and a lot of other factors.

Man, here's the thing. He paid his taxes right? Did Elon paid around the same amount his net worth? Did any other billionaire did?

Now, remember those people seeking clout using charity? What if more people seeking clout using charity? What if more billionaire seeking clout by paying taxes too? Sure, not "good" or "perfect", but better. As in, 1 is better than 0 because something is better than nothing. But I'd argue that something better is a good thing in general.

Would you like me to give you some money to help your debt, but not in full or none at all? Same thing here, only the debt is to society in the form of taxes. Something is better than nothing and hence a good thing.

nO

Are you a slime?

I think his point is that funding doesn't equate to it being shit

... combine multiple physical disks into one.

Isn't that RAID 0 and generally a bad idea? Since one disk failure can bring down the whole system.

That really depends on the teacher/mentor. C and C++ can be just as accessible. For someone who is learning by themselves however, I agree.