Guess Linus was right again to only use ECC RAM.

Let’s spend a ton of extra money minimizing edge case crashing in a browser!!!

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I don’t know about you, but I use my RAM for a lot more than a browser.

What nerd edge case do you want to talk about that is so important you need ECC?

Simple stuff like a calculator can be just as broken by a bitflip as more complex things. You woulndn’t want your calculator to say 1 + 1 = 2049.

If you want to rely on your computer, ECC RAM is required.

Exactly, one of the ‘nerd edge cases’ (as the now removed comment mentioned) is that I use ZFS on my NAS.

There’s lots of checksumming and encryption. Errors in that process are not acceptable and could potentially cause data loss. Since the one of the points of using ZFS is the enhanced data integrity, not using ECC means losing out on that guarantee.

Nobody fucking cares my man. Not important. Nobody in the regular world has ever been effected by not having ECC. You’re inventing edge cases that most cares about. Linus suffers from not understanding normal people.

Nobody in the regular world has ever been effected by not having ECC.

Based on the article, it looks like at least 10% of crashes are caused by not having ECC.

Linus suffers from not understanding normal people.

Well, you are demonstrating that you’re an expert people person so I’ll just have to take your word.