“Leftist’s warnings”? Perhaps 40 years ago, but it’s come from both sides over the last 20, and yet leftists still pushed for this stuff, as much as anyone.

Language policing is always the tool of whoever is currently in power - they’ll always use it to their advantage.

As others have said, it’s probably overheating.

That’s a mini, and likely doesn’t have any fans at all (or something perfunctory), so probably won’t handle being run at high cpu for more than a few minutes.

I currently have a small-form-factor pc with the same issue - drive and general box temps were high (drive was 110f, continuous, within range but on the edge). It would randomly reboot.

Replacing the paste on the cpu cooler helped a lot (no more random reboots), but adding a compressor-type fan dropped box temps (and more importantly drive temps), down to room temp.

I think the best you may be able to do is add an external compressor fan with some duct tape.

And wasn’t the Maginot Line still effective at preventing the German army from just waltzing directly into France during WWII?

In France, people who have VW cars are not the best or brightest drivers. It could work.

FTFY

VW are garbage, have been since, well, forever.

70’s VW factory replacement parts were so bad you’d get water pumps with incompletely drilled mount holes.

Today, the electrics do dumb things like combine the AC control with the power window controls in a box in the drivers door. You know, an area that will deal with moisture.

Drive down the road and note how often a VW has an entire taillight that doesn’t work.

Their electrics are shit. (Other brands have their own issues, American brands are only a little better, or worse, depending on the brand and model).

I mean you picked an American car company. They’ve been garbage for decades, I’ve owned exactly one, a 90’s Taurus, probably the most reliable American car we’ve seen in decades, and it just barely approaches Japanese cars for reliability and maintenance.

I say this as someone who’s worked on every brand of car, from the 1940’s to today. You can’t give me an American car (or German, or just European). I refuse to own anything other than Honda or Toyota any more. I’ll sacrifice style and features for a vehicle that just works for 100-200k miles, or more.

Buick has been a style-over-substance brand in the GM lineup since the 80’s, at least. Not that any GM is particularly good, Buick just makes it worse with cheap gimmicks. Same with all Chrysler products.

But yea, all brands include some nonsense today.

You don’t really see this with Toyota and Honda, just avoid any of the models that are joint venture with other companies.

The racing world will have this cracked overnight.

Fireproof safes are for paper, not drives or tape.

They work by having a material in the walls that breaks down from heat, keeping the interior cool enough for paper.

I wouldn’t trust that without some kind of testing.

Crash plan used to have a “backup to your friends” solution. They ended it, dammit

Is that mofo on skates?

Women are more horny on their period.

There isn’t any evidence to support this

Clearly this question hasn’t been asked of a bunch of women, or the research hasn’t been done.

Is it a given? An absolute? Probably not. But also look at other mammals.

Ah, yes, gatekeeping in Linux Land.

Because you are clearly psychic and know everyone’s use-case/requirements.

May pay lawyers, cause you know damn well people will get pennies.

My hypoglycemic body chemistry would like a word… Dammit

As much like the Shuttle as a 707 is like a 777.

Completely different tasks. Spy tech has gotten a lot smaller since the Shuttle launching its Keyhole satellites.

The shuttle was primarily built to get Keyhole spy satellites into space.

The rest was PR and to get Russia to try to build one and waste resources.

These are the satellite chassis that only the shuttle could orbit, because it’s cargo bay was specifically designed to hold one.

Most people think the Hubble was this singular major thing, but was just another Keyhole satellite, just used to look outward, instead of toward earth.

Canceling the money-pit boondoggle the shuttle was a smart move.

https://lemmy.cafe/comment/13003753

They have electrical outlets color coded to indicate what’s on which backup circuit, that’s how extensive it is, ffs.

Hell, I’ve been in help desks that barely burped with power outages, in the 90’s…someone really fucked up.

No, God no, and I’m an avid reader.

My big ones are: Autodesk/CAD. Nothing in the Linux world comes close to the professional CAD stuff today.

Excel. No open source spreadsheet app does tables. That’s a no-sale.

System controllers - stuff that uses a licensing dingle, dongle or has to control specific hardware - all of that is built for Windows.

Most end users can barely use Windows after growing up with it, using it in school and college. They don’t want to understand systems, just what to click on.