Also why they (Musk especially visibly amongst them) try to destabilize the EU - the possibly most effective consumer protection organization that messes with their bottom line.
edit: Just saw another example: https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
It just matters that it's consistent. The transactions that are put into the blockchain just have to follow the rules of the blockchain and be the same for everyone who reads the blockchain. That's all that "correctness" means as far as the blockchain is concerned.
Still useless for anything that depends on external data, since there can be no guarantee that what has been entered is correct. What's the point of a consistent record of garbage?
But blockchain at its core is just a distributed database. One that has no central authority, can not be tampered with, cannot be altered, nor taken down if parametrized accordingly.
Which is completely useless if the data that goes into that blockchain isn't guaranteed to be correct. And if there's money in it you can bet your ass that someone will try to game the system.
You're also glossing over the existing grid that needs money to be maintained while complaining that energy companies want money. Yes, there's a general problem where society allowed (and partly encouraged) sociopaths to be unrestrained greedy assholes that needs some kind of solution, but not all companies are useless leeches, it's "just" an all-pervading corruption that needs to be dealt with - and as long as that hasn't happened, every idealistic solution faces the threat of being corrupted itself.
They should have focused on the name change, to prove that there is a demand for "GIMP but with another name". Everything else can be done in the main project or any fork, and that those don't exist show that the manpower needed for that isn't really available.
There was a separate project that changed the name to "Glimpse", and then got too many other great ideas for the few people they had to actually get somewhere and it dissolved.
Monopoly? No? I guess that's the less visible kind of violence that makes it acceptable.
Make sure to disable Windows hybrid sleep. If your system isn't shutdown properly and you access the Windows partition from another system that can destroy data.
If you just want to keep the data on the Windows partition and usually don't need to run Windows, I'd remove the Windows drive and keep it somewhere safe, and get another SSD for Linux. That way, the two systems are completely separate and can do nothing to each other.
Swap is mostly a crutch for too little RAM, if the system doesn't have enough the best solution would be an upgrade. If that's not possible, consider zram-swap, or if you have to, swap to an SSD (that will reduce its lifespan, though maybe not in a relevant manner). If you swap to an old HDD you won't have much fun using the system.
Modern cheats for multiplayer games don't modify local files (or attribute values in memory), since the server validates everything anyway. They're about giving you information that's available but not shown in the game (like see-through walls, or exact skill ranges), or manipulate input (dodge enemy damage, easy combos). Those cheat can run in kernel mode (or at least evade detection from user mode), so the anti-cheat needs kernel mode to be more effective.
Audiobooks have a simple workaround if you can find a version of the book in text format to download, just index that.
Calibre can create a full text index to search through everything (well, for files that actually contain the text, and it needs a lot of space).
"Free speech" just means "I want to spout garbage without pushback (like fact checking) or consequences."
A little DOGE hut at the foot of Trump's bed?