[TomVDB]

Why pay for something I don’t need when there’s the option to not pay for it? - me

Just yesterday, I bought an extra 64GB for my home Linux PC. I absolutely couldn’t care less about it crashing or calculating the wrong result every blue moon (in practice: never), but I did choose the RAM sticks that were $10 cheaper.

[GekkePrutser]

That's totally fine. The problem is people that do need it not having the option to pay the extra without getting a totally different "workstation-class" computer.

[AdrianB1]

The problem is the lack of choice, not your choice. If you were willing to pay $10 more for ECC DRAM, there would be no way to use it.

[IYasha]

Plz tell me your IP, I'll block torrents from you :D

[sigstoat]

torrents have checksums on the blocks, which your client already checks, because the internet doesn't guarantee packets arrive without corruption. it doesn't matter where the corruption comes from.

[TomVDB]

I’d go dither than that and claim that almost everything of importance has checksums: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Git submissions, all my important web accounts, the traffic with my bank website and so forth.

When I look at my daily home computer usage, it’s remarkable how little I calculate on my local computer that’s actually with protecting.

[IYasha]

Yes, I know. It was a joke :)