Then he said Arch Linux should implement it anyway because the law requires it. archinstall PR #4290

Well, it’s not “the law”, it’s your local law. To most people on the planet, it doesn’t apply any more than for example North Korea’s laws. As far as I can find, Arch Linux is not owned by a foundation or similar legal entity (i.e. which could have been located in California), but the lead developer appears to live in Germany.

Have you tried Vivaldi? Co-founded by one of the Opera Software co-founders, so perhaps not a surprise that it feels a little bit like classic Opera. I liked it a lot, but I have since switched to Firefox because I want to support the non-Chromium options while they exist.

Now is a bad time to buy hard drives price-wise

It’s a bit of a gamble, isn’t it? At least here, HDDs appear to have gone up 10-20% compared to lowest prices last year, which isn’t that much compared to SSDs and RAM. Personally I bought new disks last week just in case the prices continue to rise and I don’t want to end up in a position where I have to buy new disks while they’re at an all time high.

You mean “spinning disk” metaphorically, right? Or is there any reason to not have it in low power standby mode? I don’t have any hot spare in my server, but on my desktop I use hdparm to spin down a rarely used storage drive just because it’s so loud.