2026-03-06 13:23 UTC
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@xthexder@l.sw0.com 2026-03-06 18:23
This checks out with Linus Torvalds saying most OS crashes across linux AND windows are caused by hardware issues, and also why he uses ECC RAM.
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@toddestan@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 22:18
Programs that use more memory could be slightly more susceptible to this sort of thing because if a bit gets randomly flipped somewhere in a computer's memory, the bit flip more likely to happen in an application that has a larger ram footprint as opposed to an application with a small ram footprint. I'm still surprised the percentage is this high.
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@bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-06 14:41
That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you'd expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[https://www.theverge.com/tech/880781/mozilla-is-dropping-firefox-support-for-windows-7-and-8], it's likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.