I don’t like either of those things, but I think it may be the best answer, simply due to the huge install base. Just about every step by step tutorial and help article for anything a basic user is going to do has Ubuntu based commands included.

For some variety, I recently switched from x11 to Wayland and it fixed some problems I was having with game input.

I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

Kinda laughed at the Rockwell one. Most PLCs are wide open anyway with no network access at all.

I’m only ever using a command line text editor for changing the odd config file, so for me the benefits of vim or emacs has never outweighed the hassle of figuring them out. So I stick with nano.

Nope. Never bothered with a laptop until work provided me with one.

I don’t think I have anyone in my family that I hate quite that much.

Not if I’ve never bought a prebuilt PC.

I switched from bash to zsh a while ago, mostly just for shits and giggles. I really can’t see any reason to form a strong opinion on it one way or the other.

To answer your question anyway, raspberry Pi made the rp2040 chip, which is a microcontroller similar to the esp, instead of a full fat computer SOC

Many. But there too, I’m seeing many people move to VScode + platformio. I’m not saying Arduino is already dead, I’m just saying that the alternatives were already gaining ground.

Maybe it’s just what I’ve been noticing, but I feel like Arduino was already losing its share of the hobbyist market. The plethora of small, cheap esp32 devices have already been taking Arduino’s place.

Still cheaper than moving my main computer to DDR5

I know it’s an LTS version, but 5.15 is not exactly a new kernel release. It’s EOL next year. I’ve been on the 6 series kernel since switching from Windows, and have yet to have anything break on update.

Edit: also, that kernel release is less than a year after the 6800 xt was released. I’d imagine that newer kernels would have a whole bunch of bug fixes.

If you are a company the size of Microsoft, you have more than enough resources to test absolutely everything.

Like other people have said, it’s going to depend on what you want to do with the NAS. If it’s going to be a pure NAS (ie network storage only), then using onboard will be fine. If you plan on doing other things (home assistant, media server, etc), I recommend going the virtual machine + HBA route.

What I’m saying is one step more cynical that that. I’m saying is that you can’t fully trust anyone with your privacy. The best you can do is try to determine who will treat you best based on the motivation involved. VPNs take resources to operate. In our current society that means money, but even in the absence of money, there’s labour, hardware, and electricity costs that go into making it work. Expecting someone to just eat that cost in perpetuity is unreasonable. If the cost is being covered by the users, there is much less incentive for the operator to do anything shady with the data they have access to.

Don’t be bringing your politics into this. Communist, socialist, anarchist, etc, entities are all capable of running a honeypot VPN service. Even if the motive isn’t directly monetization, the user is still the product.

Also, even in the FOSS world, you have to be wary of services with ongoing costs (thinking of things that have a server side component, not software that you can run purely locally) that are offered for free.

Remember kids, if the service is free, you are the product.

That’s a suspiciously specific guess.