OSX is based off BSD now, so there are plenty of command tools available to you. All your basic linux commands work in OSX as well as several additional useful OSX command tools that just don't exist elsewhere. I frequently run command line scripts to configure OSX and install numerous pieces of software on several Macs. You can also install Fink, or MacPorts, or Homebrew to install plenty of additional useful software. It's all there if you learn how to use OSX on the command line.

Windows also has a command line, and the vast majority of Windows software can be installed on the command line. There are many useful command line utilities that vastly speed up setup of the a windows system. You could also install cygwin if you really want unix style commands. With powershell, there's less of a need to have cygwin. In a Domain, you can use group policy to manage numerous systems, but that's not available if you're not in a domain. If you manage systems not in a domain, or before you join it to a domain, you can do just about everything on a local trusted network with command line tools in a batch file script or powershell.

Many people think of Windows or OSX as GUI only, or mainly, have never really sat down to find the command line way of doing it because the GUI was always there as a crutch. The GUI was so well done that they never bothered seek out the command line. On linux, the GUI came much, much later. In the beginning, some of the linux GUI, like the early SAMBA config GUI that wiped smb.conf, was quite broken. There's still work to be done with the GUI.

Don't mistake a useful GUI for lack of a command line on OSX or Windows. It's all there and you've just never learned to use it. The linux GUI is not as well designed and still needs more work to get to where Windows and OSX are. That's probably why most linux users are still going to the command line. Eventually, that will change and it will mainly be sysadmins and certain power users that do any command line on linux as well.

The shell includes for, if, else, while and variables that allow you to write simple to complex scripts to manage all the self contained unix commands listed by Bob9113.

Here's 3 more useful unix commands to add to Bob9113's list

apropos COMMAND_or_COMMAND_FRAGMENT - to find the command you might want
which COMMAND - to find the location of the command on the filesystem
man COMMAND - to find the manual page for the command

There is an entire book dedicated to just awk and sed, which are quite useful programs on their own.

Human beings are monsters in these situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

They had CFLs from Lights of America that came on instantly back in the 90s. I've been using CFLs since the early 90s. The "modern" ones seem to take longer to turn on, but for me that's actually a slight plus in the morning. I don't want them blinding me right when I wake up in the dark.

I also found that most of them burn out too soon because the electrical supply coming to the home is rather poor in quality. The line transformers in most areas were designed for homes from the 1950s when people didn't install or run Air Conditioners. When my line transformer blew up with a tremendously loud bang and outgassed all the oil, they replaced it with a more modern transformer that could handle the much higher loads. Ever since then, I stopped getting deep brownouts whenever the neighbor's AC turned on. I also stopped having to change out my fluorescent lights so frequently. I think the electric companies have a scam going with the light bulb manufacturers, because all the cheap bulbs they sponsor are such utter crap. The ones I got from those programs really suck, and burn out well before the expected life because of the poor electrical infrastructure. They work fine if the electricity is stable, but that won't happen until they upgrade the line transformers to handle modern household loads.

My home doesn't have AC, because we have natural tree shading that keeps our home cool enough except for up to a week each year. It also helps keep it warmer in the winter, since our heating costs are lower than our neigbors. A lot of new homes constructions don't include natural shading any more. That's part of the reason for the heavier use of furnaces and ACs in many modern homes now. Our concrete slab foundation also help keep the floor decently cool during the summer. The neighbor needs AC because the original owner cut down all their trees to get a "view" and took out most of the shade and insulation vegetation near their home.

Don't use adobe reader to open the pdf. There's plenty of other readers that don't execute the code.

Foxit, sumatrapdf, etc...

$1500 was a "cheap" low-end computer back then. The high end home PC systems were $3000-$5000. The mini-fridge sized systems were upwards of $10,000

It's only a quarter sink for those that didn't figure out the patterns, especially for the food reward. Some people could play for 6 hours on a single quarter. The had to eventually reduce the food and health to get them down to 6 hours. Once you know the patter, you could play for quite some time. The elf was the easiest to play, followed by the valkyrie.

Gauntlet Legends was 1998 and wasn't really 3D. It was top down isometric. It got ported to the different consoles in 99/00.

The US territory of Guam has hurricane proof and earthquake proof homes. They are built of concrete and come with built in storm shutters that can be opened and closed from the inside. There's no need for a dome to survive a typhoon (hurricane to mainlanders). Regular home shapes work well enough. They mainly ride out the storms within their own homes with very little loss of life and property. Contrast this with the US mainland with annual problems. Stop being cheap. Stop using wood in hurricane and tornado zones. They should just be replaced with concrete as they blow away. It saves both homeowenres and insurance companies a lot of money very long term.

The homes on Guam were replaced with concrete after the 1976 super typhoon (~150mph+) blew many of them away. They stopped building out of wood since that time. Before the 1980s, everyone sheltered in the reinforced concrete schools and waited out the typhoons, hoping their home hadn't blow away. The main problems after a typhoon now is repainting and cleaning up the yard. It's mostly cosmetic fixes. The only time they have major problems on Guam now is when a super typhoon (~150mph+) comes along about every 20-25 years and blows out the power lines and the concrete power poles. They could probably start putting some lines underground now to reduce the power outages, but they have quakes too and some areas are too low and easily flood during a typhoon. They had their 8.0 quake just over a decade ago too.

Then, this new law just reinforces the original contract law and spells out what minors can actually do. If the contract can already by rescinded by a minor, they could already tell the companies to delete all their data. That's already legally allowed. I don't see why everyone's up in arms about "nanny state California". It seems that California is spelling out the rights a little better. It would be better if everyone has a right to rescind a one sided click through contract.

Enable the 2nd button. Macs have always supported multi-button mice. All the new mice that come with a mac have several buttons and more features. It's just not enabled by default in your profile.

Single button mice are easier for the non-technical people to use. It's also much easier to support. All the non-technical people should get a mac. Sure it costs more, but the the simpler interface gives far fewer headaches to them and those that have to support them.

I'm teaching my kids some basic python while I learn it.

You're working in the wrong places. I agree that a large number of them are like that, but there are many nice friendly sysadmins everywhere too. I've seen the gamut. I've always tried to be helpful and never intentionally put anyone down. The sysadmin that reduces people to tears should be fired. It's just workplace bullying and shouldn't ever be tolerated in any workplace.

Unlike Puerto Rico, people born in Saipan are not conferred US citizenship.

They should be slightly better than the average person in spotting stuff in real life. You have to practice to get better, both in real life and in video games, and the "simulations" done in video games will help you improve your real life performance.