Not a hardware fix, but there's memory compression. It sounds like Windows 11 defaults to having memory compression on:
Linux has zswap and zram to do memory compression, which I've mentioned here recently. I don't know of any distros that turn it on by default. It sounds from recent reading like for modern systems with SSD swap, zswap is probably preferable to zram.
As (relatively) old as they are, midrange Core i5 chips from Intel’s 12th-, 13th-, and 14th-generation Core CPU lineups are still solid choices for budget-to-midrange PC builds.
I would be hesitant about obtaining secondhand 13th or 14th gen desktop Intel CPUs, since those are the ones that destroy themselves over time. There is no way to know whether they've been run on non-updated BIOSes and damaged themselves. I burned through an i9-13900 and an i9-14900 myself. Started with occasional errors and gradually got worse until they couldn't even get through boot. I am sure that there are lots of people trying to unload damaged processors (knowingly or unknowingly) that have only seen the early stages of damage.
12th-gen CPUs are safe.
Consider pre-built systems. A quick glance at Dell’s Alienware lineup and Lenovo’s Legion lineup makes it clear that these towers still aren’t particularly price-competitive with similarly specced self-built PCs. This was true before there was a RAM shortage, and it’s true now. But for certain kinds of PCs, particularly budget PCs, it can still make more sense to buy than to build.
I just picked up two Alienware PCs for relatives to take advantage of this window, but it was only something like a two-week window, where Dell announced at the beginning of December that they were doing price increases to reflect the RAM shortage mid-December. I believe that that window is closed now (or, well, it might still be cheaper to get DIMMs with a PC than separate, but not to get memory that way at pre-memory-shortage prices any more).
EDIT: From memory, Lenovo announced that they were doing their RAM-induced price increases at the beginning of January, so for Lenovo, it might still work for another week-and-a-half or so.
EDIT2: 15th gen Intel CPUs are also safe WRT damage, but like AMD's AM5-socket processors, they can't use DDR4 memory, which is what the author is trying to find a route to do.
The Back to the Future II writer stated that he used Donald Trump as the inspiration for Biff Tannen's alt-future self. Probably the closest match.
That's a decades-younger version of Trump, of course.
I mean, there are basically no instances that have perfect uptime. Might be a technical problem on one's end, the hosting provider having some issue, CloudFlare problem, someone DDoSing the home instance, buggy version of the software goes out the door and people update to it, but everyone has downtime at some point.
https://lestat.org/ (which doesn't track all instances, but does let one sort by uptime) has one instance at 100% uptime and it's only been up for less than two weeks, so...shrugs
EDIT: Also https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?sort=uptime-desc
They're generally interoperable, so it's not a huge deal to use one or the other, though there's presently more native client support for Lemmy. I use Interstellar on Android when I'm using a native client with PieFed.
I kind of think that it's not a terrible idea to have an account on two different home instances anyway, just so that if one goes down for a while for some reason, you can still use the other to post with. With Reddit, if the thing was down, that was it (though to be fair, Reddit reliability has been much better in recent years than it was in the early years, when there were some pretty bad stretches).
Nookingway store from Animal Crossing
I don't play the game, but I think, from reading a summary online, that this is it ("Nook's Cranny"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-cIK0VJZ8s
Bass Practice from Majoras Mask
Bonus: people should stop being lazy and learn to setup a server infrastructure instead of using “the cloud”. Your data are safer, you save money and give less power to gargantuan cloud companies.
If change happens here, I'm pretty sure that it's going to be in the form of some sort of zero-administration standardized server module that a company sells that has no phone-home capability and that you stick on your local network.
Society probably isn't going to make everyone a system and network administrator, in much the same way that it's not going to make everyone a medical doctor or an arborist. Would be expensive to provide everyone with that skillset.
Like you, I tend to feel that in general, people need to stop trying to force people to live the way they think is best. Unless there is a very real, very serious impact on others ("I enjoy driving through town while firing a machine gun randomly out my car windows"), people should be permitted to choose how to live as far as possible. Flip side is that they gotta accept potential negative consequences of doing so. Obviously, there's gonna be some line to draw on what consitutes "seriously affecting others", and there's going to be different people who have different positions on where that line should be. Does maybe spreading disease because you're not wearing a facemask during a pandemic count? What about others breathing sidestream smoke from a cigarette smoker in a restaurant? But I tend towards a position that society should generally be less-restrictive on what people do as long as the harm is to themselves.
However.
I would also point out that in some areas, this comes up because someone is receiving some form of aid. Take food stamps. Those are designed to make it easy to obtain food, but hard to obtain alcohol. In that case, the aid is being provided by someone else. I think that it's reasonable for those other people to say "I am willing to buy you food, but I don't want to fund your alcohol habit. I should have the ability to make that decision." That is, they chose to provide food aid because food is a necessity, but alcohol isn't.
I think that there's a qualitative difference between saying "I don't want to pay to buy someone else alcohol" and "I want to pass a law prohibiting someone from consuming alcohol that they've bought themselves."
A major part of that is, I think, that desktop OSes are, "by default, insecure" against local software. Like, you install a program on the system, it immediately has access to all of your data.
That wasn't an unreasonable model in the era when computers weren't all persistently connected to a network, but now, all it takes is someone getting one piece of malware on the computer, and it's trivial to exfiltrate all your data. Yes, there are technologies that let you stick software in a sandbox, on desktop OSes, but it's hard and requires technology knowledge. It's not a general solution for everyone.
Mobile OSes are better about this in that they have a concept of limiting access that an app has to only some data, but it's still got a lot of problems; I think that a lot of software shouldn't have network access at all, some information shouldn't be readily available, and there should be defense-in-depth, so that a single failure doesn't compromise everything. I really don't think that we've "solved" this yet, even on mobile OSes.
Bind mounts aren't specific to Docker. You're asking specifically about bind mounts as used by Docker?
I use, say, bash quite happily. But I will also come down pretty firmly on the side of static typing for large software packages. It lets software handle a bunch of rigorous checking that otherwise eats up human time.
Well, usually that is true.