XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 22/10/2024 13:32, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 10/22/24 07:44, Phillip Frabott wrote:   
   >> On 10/21/2024 15:07, Lester Thorpe wrote:   
   >>> Distro maintainers, and their lackey consumers, who bloat their   
   >>> GNU/Linux   
   >>> distros with performance degrading security "features" should take note   
   >>> of the latest exclamations of Linus Torvalds:   
   >>>   
   >>> "Honestly, I'm pretty damn fed up with buggy hardware and completely   
   >>> theoretical   
   >>> attacks that have never actually shown themselves to be used in   
   >>> practice."   
   >>>   
   >>> https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/10/21/1533228/linus-torvalds-   
   >>> growing-frustrated-by-buggy-hardware-theoretical-cpu-attacks   
   >>>   
   >>> Tell 'em, Linus!  Those paranoid freaks are ruining desktop computing!   
   >>>   
   >>> To keep my workstation free of these ridiculous "mitigations" I have   
   >>> to devote some slightly significant time -- and I don't like it.   
   >>>   
   >>> At the very least, separate the desktop workstation from the public-   
   >>> facing   
   >>> sever as these have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT "security" concerns.   
   >>>   
   >>> I am sick of these "the sky is falling" security-obsessed idiots.   
   >>   
   >> Original Post is here:   
   >> https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Frustrated-Buggy-HW   
   >   
   > It's time for HW manufacturing (all development AND actual production)   
   > to return to the USA/CXanada and Europe.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   And then a raspberry Pi will cost $1000 instead of $100   
      
      
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