You know I’m talking about the Start & Stop system and not the Start & Keep Rolling Slowly, right?

I’d still like to be able to engage S&S with a button without shutting of the oil pump and whatnot, tbh.

I guess the part of Italy I live in stop signs are best described by your second paragraph, but they’re pretty frequent. These roads get wild sometimes.

You mention stop signs so that sounds like the US

Wait hold on… why’s that? Is there any juristiction where there are traffic laws, but no stop signs?

Sounds insane […]

This is in Italy, it IS insane, and admittedly I don’t know how much my grievances against S&S are mitigated by automatic transmissions (never used in tests).
Tests do not require you to disable S&S, instructors simply tell you not to let out the clutch while in neutral to avoid it, but the strictest examiners see engine shutdowns as “failure to correctly operate the vehicle”, like stalling - if it happens once, we all make mistakes, if it happens twice, come on man, if it happens three times k gg bb, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a feature of the car.

There are arguments that having your engine off on the road is unsafe, I guess those examiners are just being zealous? If they even exist, I’m trusting my instructor’s tales on this factoid, but drivers’ ed here is very strict so I’m inclined to believe him.

Most of the people who turn S&S off do so because they find it annoying, I myself try to use it effectively but I prefer driving responsibly rather than playing chess with a half-metric-ton deadly weapon.

I do know that S&S systems require better starters, but that just means they cost more, right? And even if the increased cost is marginal, the increased fuel consumption on short stops is still a problem.

As far as I’ve read around, S&S mainly wears out the starter, not the engine itself.

I don’t understand how the system could cause problems on slippery roads, but if it works on OP’s car like it does in mine, the way it’s designed to kick in is dumb, infuriating and counterproductive.

I have to disable it every time I start the car, because otherwise it would just stop the engine and restart it immediately whenever I get to a stop sign (which burns more fuel than just staying on).
BUT, if I want S&S to work, I need to re-enable it BEFORE I slow down, otherwise it just doesn’t - but I can’t predict how long I have to wait when I stop before I get to the sign, if I could they wouldn’t have put a stop sign there in the first place!

So I either:

• keep S&S enabled and disable it at every busy junction before I put it in neutral, then enable it again;
• forget about it and always keep it on, wasting fuel, increasing emissions, prematurely having my starter replaced to prevent failures in the middle of busy roads;
• forget about it and always keep it off or just never put the car in neutral, which is what all driving schools in my country teach drivers to do by the way (people have failed their tests by not preventing the engine shutdown), and possibly fully shut the engine off at my not-taking-drivers-license-test discretion.

And my car isn’t even a KIA, I can’t imagine how bad the S&S system would be on a KIA!

Spaces behave like this because markdown was designed to be like HTML but quicker to write and easier to read without formatting;
most web services that use markdown translate it to HTML rather than parsing it directly, and in HTML whitespaces are supposed to work like you demonstrated in your comment.

The reason for this behavior in HTML is “because someone in the 90s said so”, I’m afraid.

Discord does markdown differently than intended: it’s better for non-techies because hitting enter once is more intuitive than the alternative, but the standard way to insert line breaks in markdown is to type two spaces at the end of the line you want to break.

Not OP, but:

• Not indexable (can’t use web search engines on its content, not even forums);
• Like Deep Rock Galactic, Discord is full of cave-dwelling creatures that abduct miners;
• The built-in search feature (the only way you can search things on it, mind you) has less filters than my uncle at thanksgiving;
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• Can’t mute the entire server because you want notifications for mentions on a few specific channels;
• Said server creates a new channel;
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• @everyone
• Can’t use browser bookmarks to manage and enter servers, you have to use THIS fucking thing
  
• 
  • “but they have to pay for uptime somehow”
    confirmshaming, plus they got the monopoly on this type of social services by undercutting their competition through venture capital so they could go under tomorrow for all I care
• Irrelevant for most people, but the garbage uncollapsible UI makes it painful to make it share screenspace with other windows on a FHD screen (which is a tragedy for tiling WM users);
• The markdown implementation is a bit janky IME
• “By reading the first 9 words of this notice you accept that you may not sue us and have to arbitrate your disputes”
• Third-party clients are against TOS, as you noted below

Windows 10 and 11 really dislike HDDs, that’s probably why you can’t admit to using HDDs online without getting stones thrown at you (I’ve been there before).

I’ve disabled paging files (= swap) for one of my Windows VMs, unfortunately - to my surprise - that only had a small performance boost, and I still need to let the VM chug for a few mintes before it even lets me open File Explorer.

… but it does improve performance, definitely consider doing it if you don’t need swap/paging/whatever they call it now.

o7, probably worth a shot

It’s not about the amount of swap space, it’s a problem that happens when swapping happens for big chunks of data at a time.

Windows aggressively swaps out things way before it’s necessary, you can try increasing the system’s “swappiness”; I’m writing this from my phone, but when I get to my PC I’ll write out how to do it (unless somebody else does it before I do).

You can set it by writing vm.swappiness=60 in a file like /etc/sysctl.d/50-swappiness.conf.
The value 60 is arbitrary, if you increase it the system will try to swap out things more aggressively; the name of the file is also partially arbitrary, but AFAIK, it has to begin with two digits — the system will read all the files inside /etc/sysctl.d in order, and the settings in higher-numbered files will be applied over lower ones.

Officially, this is the explaination of the vm.swappiness parameter.
You can read and write the value with your shell:

#!/usr/bin/bash
sysctl vm.swappiness  # shows you the current value
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=69  # sets the swappiness to 69 AND shows you the new value

A Wider and less Local LAN, if you will

Your stepbrother’s judgement depends on which Halo he plays, he still has a chance

This AI generated meeting could have been an AI generated email

Understandable complaint, if it’s anything like X3 or Avorion

Makes more sense ig

I thought so too, but IME it’s fine

They cared to optimize for hard disks? Odd but respectable

Thanks for the link, it addresses both of the doubts I’ve expressed in the post; perhaps at some point I’ll play a game with DS and see how well it carries over to Linux despite the lack of a similar API, I’ll probably stick to the small RAID0 fs I already have and use it for X4 or something.