What if I care more about the performance of things that aren't being used right now than the things that are? I'm sick of switching to my DAW and having to listen to my drive thrash when I try to play a (say) sampler I had loaded.

Just set swappiness to [say] 5, 2, 1, or even 0, and move on with your project with a system that is more reluctant to go into swap.

And maybe plan on getting more RAM.

(It's your system. You're allowed to tune it to fit your usage.)

Sounds like you just need more memory.

It's not fine, take the loss and learn.

So it's simple: don't do anything at all about the technology that is the impetus for these horrible disruptions, just completely rebuild our entire society instead.

Yippee

I expected to add a game to MAME but instead proved that it didn't exist

This was a lot easier before they removed the Zerk fitting from the Macbook.

Yeah, like everything else the moved to selling it as a separate (overpriced) dongle. This wasn't that bad, but now that they've removed the ethernet connectors also, you need both dongles connected in series, and you need to remove the Zerk-RJ45 adapter every time you plug the Ethernet cable, and it still doesn't help with your TLS connections over Wifi! I'm probably not the first to say it, but Apple's "Pro" line is clearly no longer aimed at professionals.

> How do we know we’re not doing the same or similar in our brains?

How do we know that we're not made of magic?

Why would closed source software be safe? Say I copy shared-mime-info completely, compile it, sell it to you as MimeWizardPRO2000, you include it as part of your closed source web framework and sell that. You're still distributing GPL code without making your source available.

I think it's different if you are re-using source (with GPL notices) or binaries (which don't have them)

Yes, it's more of an intrastate disagreement with this particular infectious disease.