@hp duh...

#Duke3D obviously doesn't need that fast #IOPS.

@lazygamereviews got it running off a parallel port #ZipDisk…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBhEaMp8mw

@randahl @osma not only does setting up #Mastodon and properly #SelfHosting it takes quite a lot of resources and time, it's neither easy nor fast to setup either.

I remember @fuchsiii swearing amidst the #JankWare that is Mastodon, because it makes #WordPress look like 30+ years enterprise-grade minimalist #Unix code by comparison.

• Add to that the cost and complexity: Mastodon isn't a simple #XAMPP-esque application any #WebHoster supports, but needs like a rootful #VPS (with decent #IOPS if one wants to host more than a single user and doesn't flush caches daily!)...

But for #Omar, #Sanders and #AOC, these ain't valid excuses as they have paid full time staff on retainer to do their #SocialMedia and compared to the #AntisocialMedia / #MainstreamSocialMedia, the #Fediverse is way less painful and has way more granular and effective #moderation #tools built-in than even paid tools (i.e. #HootSuite) and paid #API|s ever offered on #Shitter!

@F3715H @JuxGD I second this one.

1. Obviously #Monero peaked recently because everyone who can is dropping #USD for #XMR and is #GTFO'ing the #USA due to #Trump...

2.I've seen "#ProofOfStake" #Shitcoins like #Ethereum and #Solana with setups that are way more wasteful, expensive and #hoarding of hardware like #RAM and #SSDs [the latter one being basically destroyed due to extreme #IOPS].

• I've yet to see any credible evidence of commercial #MoneroFarming / #MoneroMining to exist to a scale even remotely as close to those #Shitcoins with entire #Datacenters dedicaded to them (I sadly can't divulge more due to NDAs)...

3.If you have no problem with #AMEX, #VISA, #MasterCard ¹ (and espechally #PayPal!)² ³, then you shouldn't have a problem with Monero either!

• Yes it is a #cryptocurrency, but it's the "least worst" when it comes to #privacy, #centralization and some study seem to hint that Monero and the DNMs that use it actually reduce #StreetCrime and #Violence as they allow #NonviolentDrugOffenders [aka. #VictimlessCrimes] to be facilitated safer and in a trustless envoirment.

• The Problems associated with #Monero are not due to the fault of Monero. It's what people do towards other people. Whether they do it for XMR, #Dollar, #Euro, or whatever doesn't make it better or worse than whether someone threatens a person with a knife or a rifle: Both are equally bad in the eyes of the law and society for all the righr reasons!

Also Monero per it's very design CANNOT be abused for "#SmartContracts", #NFTs and associated #malware - in fact the #developers of Monero removed any such ability by deprecating and disabling the tx_extra feature.

• So in that regard, Monero by it's privacy is IMHO more ethical than even a #BankAccount because unlike a #Bank and like cash, #SelfCustody of it gives YOU 100% control over the funds, which is important amidst #Debanking attacks by the #Trump-Regime against opponents around the globe! Something @RoteHilfe found out recently...

#USpol #NotFinancialAdvice #payments #money

@krutonium @eckes @spacehobo @nina_kali_nina granted I don't consider #Threadripper a "consumer platform" but rather #Enterprise / #Enthusiast / #Workstation-grade.

• Just because someone is willing to sell to me as a consumer doesn't mean that's cinsumer grade...

Still, #CXL's ability to offer basically "#SlowRAM" expansion is nifty and will make #Database applications and #caching significantly faster whilst reducing wear on regular #SSD|s in high-#IOPS scenarios...