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.
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.
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.
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.
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.