These aren't good reasons

Is it on F-droid?

dtrx is the way to do it. It's short for "do the right extraction", and it just works.

Also, all you have to remember for tar is "-xtract -zee -vucking -files" (extract the fucking files, but first letters only)

Switch to Android is a good first step. Being able to run verified open source software with F-Droid is a good first step!

Silicon Valley middle out compression, but for real

The SSD memory cell failure mode is to retain the last written contents, so I actually don't think I agree. In the SMART diagnostics, it shows how many of these bad cells are present, which is a reasonable indicator of impending failure from age

Ah yes, inovation. And by innovation, I mean buying the entire manufacuring capability so your competitors can't use it

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks, especially in a laptop that gets banged around. HDDs win in only one category: capacity per price.

It's a config flag in /etc/fstab

Yeah literally, what is this post even saying

I thought this was about how in North America, passenger trains generally have to yield to freight trains, at the cost of extreme delays, longer trip times, and late arrivals.

Common story, very funny though. I'm actually working at a SaaS vendor I used to use, and their search was unusable. I finally got to fix it and am very happy about it