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  • glibg10b@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyz17 years*
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    2 months ago

    What’s worse is that there are modern alternatives that can process hundreds of transactions per second without any mining at all

    But Bitcoin people don’t care about that because they don’t use Bitcoin for actual payments, they use the price to pump their bags














  • Before installing Arch on a USB flash drive, I disabled ext4 journaling in order to reduce disk reads and writes, being fully aware of the implications (file corruption after unexpected power loss). I was confident that I would never have to pull the plug or the drive without issuing a normal shutdown first. Unfortunately, there was one possibility I hadn’t considered: sometimes, there’s that one service preventing your PC from turning off, and at that stage there’s no way to kill it (besides waiting for systemd to time out, but I was impatient).

    So I pulled the plug. The system booted fine, but was missing some binaries. Unfortunately, I couldn’t use pacman to restore them because some of the files it relied on were also destroyed.

    This was not the last time I went through this. Luckily I’ve learned my lesson by now