I mean I never said it wasn't stupid, just that it's intuitive for Americans. 5/10 should be average.
But I'm not even sure that's purely an American thing. Go to a rating website like IMDB or MyAnimeList, 7/10 is considered average. I'm genuinely surprised that you're surprised by this.
How? The average American already has 70 as a reference point for average. What part do you disagree with?
The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale
I disagree. Realistically the scale shouldn't be able to be negative at all. It doesn't really make any sense for something have a negative temperature.
Imagine if other scales worked that way. An object can't be negative centimeters long. Light can't be negative lumens. You can't score negative % on a test. If you are measuring something you can't have less than nothing.
75% is a C which is average for school grades, and a 7/10 is widely considered an average score for things like movies. 70-75F being the average room temp is pretty intuitive when used alongside other common scales.
It was also already in Arch's KDE-unstable repo. I've been using Plasma 6 for like 3 months.
It doesn't necessarily defeat the point if the only reason you are using Lineage is for OS updates and not for privacy reasons. That was my original reason for using it before de-googling.
I don't have google play services anymore but I do still use microG just for Revanced because I am a psychopath that actually likes YouTube recommendations.
Just buy them on eBay. Why does it matter where they come from? Again, four of them have to die before it's no longer worth it. It's extremely unlikely you'd be that unlucky.
Personally I have 15 drives in my NAS, all of them were bought used and they've been running 24/7 for 4+ years without issue. Originally I expected to lose at least one per year but they just keep chugging along. All of them have at least 40k power on hours, with the oldest 3TB ones having over 80k (9+ years)
I use unRAID so if/when one does die it's as simple as pulling out the dead one, popping in a new one, and letting it rebuild itself.
Especially for hard drives. 8TB SAS drives are down to about $45 a piece.
Brand new enterprise-grade 8TB drives are more around $180 new. Meaning as long as you have redundancy (which you should anyway) then you can lose four used drives before it stops being worth it. Not to mention drives get cheaper so if your $45 drive dies 2 years from now you could probably replace it for $35 etc.
I recommend reading the actual paper this article is about. DDG is actually by far the worst by their measures. Google is 9% spam compared to 31% for DDG and 23% for Bing. That's a huge difference.
I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven't before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.
As far as I can tell mesa and the proprietary drivers both use the ROCm packages for OpenCL. I don't think there's actually a difference on that front.