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Re:“fractureiser” malware in many popular Minecraft mods and... by userbinator on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:25PM (#36236002)
Mine stays almost completely quiet most of the time, because I've trimmed the stuff running in the background to an absolute minimum.
Re:“fractureiser” malware in many popular Minecraft mods and... by andai on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:20AM (#36238794)
On which OS?
Re:“fractureiser” malware in many popular Minecraft mods and... by dspillett on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:52AM (#36238993)
I've done that in the past, back when I was running Linux on very slow & apparently somewhat fragile solid state devices on a netbook, and when trying to keep traditional drives as quiet as possible in a desktop pretending to be a server that was on all hours, but for the most part I leave logging on and not overly buffered these days. SSDs are quiet and reliable¹ ATM.

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[1] though for anything I care about I still RAID1² everything

[2] with devices from different sources, to reduce the chance of both dying at the same time (or the second dying before the first is replaced and the mirror rebuilt)