No need to call him Douchy but yes you are right. I am also very worried about the amount of non monetary data that will be on the chain. Just try and educate people to run Knots. I do think Umbrel should have Knots next to core in the app store as well.
Thanks for the follow up explanation. My comment was clearly about your first post which without any context came across more like a battle cry than an argument.
It is good that you are elaborating now but please do not act as if I ever took a position on Core or Knots. I did not. 
it keeps giving me drive errors on a cheap Chinese mini pc but other computers worked just fine. So for me I think is just had bad hardware from the beginning, but I’m going to do some other things like move the whole umbrel docker container onto a different drive. I updated the OS in the background to Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ and it seems a little faster.
Maybe you should
Hello…this is good news.
Absent a 2 TB SSD (largest capacity I have is only 512 GB), I have a pile of 5 TB and 6 TB HDDs that I have laying around (formerly from my NAS over the years).
May I ask if there are any special configuration settings (other than BIOS/UEFI boot order settings and AHCI mode?) that I would need to make in order to install to and boot from an HDD? I have previously tried on a 5 TB HDD (Toshiba), but the Umbrel OS never boots from it, even after having checked the boot order in BIOS/UEFI.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I hope you do realise that supporting Bitcoin core also hurts the many bitcoin node runners at the long. Not only do you consent for Spam, you also help to spread CSAM (in case you didn’t know).
WTF? 
Your accusation is not only offensive but also technically incoherent. I have never taken a position in the Core-versus-Knots debate. I praised Umbrel’s redesigned Bitcoin Node interface and asked for transparency about which version of Bitcoin Core is being used. Turning that into an endorsement of Bitcoin Core is simply dishonest.
Claiming that Bitcoin Core users therefore support or distribute CSAM is nothing more than primitive guilt by association. Relay policy is not the same as consensus, operators can configure their own data-carrier policy, and the old OP_RETURN limit never fundamentally prevented arbitrary data from being stored.
By your absurd logic, anyone who uses the internet automatically supports every piece of illegal content transmitted through it. 
He should. Staying neutral is the same as approving for SPAM and turning bitcoin into a cloud storage like that Ethereum junk. Also, there is a CSAM problem, so he would he wise to be part of the Bitcoin Knots side and support BIP101.
Staying neutral is not the same as approving spam. I never supported spam, CSAM, or arbitrary data storage. You invented that position simply because I did not join your preferred side.
Also, you mean BIP 110, not BIP 101.
Misrepresenting my position, using CSAM as emotional blackmail, and citing the wrong BIP is not a technical argument. It is an ideological loyalty test…
So you’re basically a coward and can’t make up your mind? By claiming to stay neutral you’ve shown your colours: you don’t seem to care about the integrity of Bitcoin’s monetary system, and by staying passive you basically give them green light to flood the node network full of non monetary data.
Do you have children? Probably not, because apparently you don’t take this CSAM that serious. I don’t care if you see it as emotional blackmailing, but if you insist to keep using Bitcoin core software despite knowing about it, you’re just part of the problem of spreading CSAM.
Apparently, you either did not understand my previous reply or chose to ignore it. I never took a position for Core or Knots. Portraying neutrality as approval of spam and the use of Bitcoin Core as spreading CSAM is not an argument, but an absurd distortion.
With personal attacks, moral blackmail, and false conclusions, you have disqualified yourself from any serious discussion. This discussion with you is over.
One more thing: your logic is like saying that anyone who uses email supports phishing, anyone who drives a car supports hit and runs, and anyone who uses the internet supports every illegal file online.
Not opposing Core does not mean supporting Core. Using Core does not mean supporting spam. And refusing your ideological loyalty test certainly does not mean supporting CSAM.
You are simply stacking absurd assumptions on top of each other until you can accuse anyone who disagrees with you of something monstrous.
I’ve been in this forum for quite some time, and this is by far the most stupid thing I’ve read here, congrats for that, you’re the winner! 
You’re insulting 82% of the bitcoiners at once, what an achievement, you must be proud!
Do you have children? oh bad luck, you must support r*ping according to your logic.
Hopefully your kids will be smarter than you.