Reminds me of Universal Paperclips - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Click this link with caution folks. I swear to God the first time I saw it I woke up 8 hours later and had somehow completed the game.

Stay away from kittens. Never entertain kittens.

Which is a text (and AI scifi theme) version of the classic Cookie Clicker

I played that game through 100 rounds when I first got sick with Long Covid

100

Rounds!

oh my. why did I click this link? where is the time going?

macFUSE - https://osxfuse.github.io/

Yes – I mean a native alternative to this (or even an implementation of it!) which does not need a third-party kernel extension.

Have you seen https://www.ibmmainframer.com/?

I would also dig through Project Guttenburg https://www.gutenberg.org/ for IBM Mainframe Programming books if you're interested in the history.

Here is a great break-down of how linux swap actually works: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10678

It's the toe - the primary "advantage" is that they can warm up the tires on formation / restarts without having to scrub back and forth. That scrubbing motion wears especially hard on the rear tires.

Why does the BAT mining extension continue to run even if I opt-out of the rewards system?

Right, that's what struck me about this question too. It is not about "beautiful design" when it comes to linux software, it is about being functional and that includes being on top of all of the fragmentation when it comes to linux desktops, window managers, distributions, and libraries.

It is hard to justify paying for something when you have to spend an appreciable amount of time getting it to work in your set up. Working well out of the box and consistently with updates is the first step.

Here is a really good article breaking down what happens in linux with regard to swap, albeit a bit dated (2011) https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10678