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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
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On 3/12/24 2:16 PM, Nuxxie wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:43:52 -0400, -hh wrote:
> 
>>
>> What we've seen with some Linux fanboy braggarts
>>
> 
> Why thank you.  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> 
>>
>> is that one can write
>> very speedy code if one optimistically assumes that there's no on ever
>> doing anything malicious to hack into a system,
>>
> 
> I can state, not optimistically but with absolute certainty, that there
> is/has/will no one ever doing anything malicious to hack into my system.
> 
> Nope.  Never has.  Never will.

That you know of.  Unfortunately, when your system is absent of security 
crosschecks, you basically have no way of knowing.

>> so there's zero overhead
>> to validate/sandbox the inputs.
>>
> 
> It's not just valdating the inputs but a plethora of other things that
> the distros enforct that really, truly, and unequivocally degrade the
> performance of system.

Sure, but one needs only but one simple example for simple minds.


> Distro lackeys, like you, are using deliberately crippled systems.

Where what "crippled" means is, of course, left conveniently vague.

>> Fortunately, CPU power now easily exceeds the 80% use case demands,
>>
> 
> Not MY use case.

Oh, for you I agree:  state of the shelf CPUs from a decade ago easily 
exceeds 200% of what you actually use or need.

> But then that's just more excuse mongering from an idiot that is forced
> to use a crippled system and is helplessly trapped therein.

Allegedly "crippled"...which is still conveniently unspecified.

-hh