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Comment Re:DIY (Score 1) 471

Well over a decade ago, I accidentally opened my laptop a bit too far on a flight and the screen got caught under the lip where the tray table goes. This was fine until the person in front of me tried to recline. Rather then checking to see why the seat wouldn't fully recline, they started slamming themselves into the seat to get it to recline. (The laptop was fine, aside from a bit of cracked plastic. And the person in front of me was able to recline after I moved it, though I had to recline too. Laptops were big back then...)

But therein lies the airlines' interest in not allowing these things: If the seat won't recline, then passengers are going to *make* them recline. (Unless the seat is clearly labeled "this seat does not recline," and even then...) They give no fucks about your comfort, but they don't want people bashing their seats apart.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 47

That was the first thing I looked at. For what little I use Twitter these days, I've found that the PWA on Firefox Mobile with an Ad-Blocker installed gives me the feature I actually want: No more promoted tweets.

Seems as though that's not a feature this new for-pay scheme includes and nothing else on offer is worth $36/year.

Comment Re:Does a X connection on localhost not work? (Score 1) 124

I don't think that was ever a use case for WSL. It's mostly for supporting Linux-based local development environments, which don't usually require long-running server processes. I guess they figure that you need a long-running server process, that's what HyperV (or your VM system of choice) is for.

Comment Re: I'll no longer have a use for Verizon (Score 1) 64

That seems more like a "After Verizon no longer has the most coverage where I am, I have no reason to stay with them." sentiment. There are much cheaper, much less nasty companies to get cellular service from than Verizon. And if they all have the same coverage, why pick the nastiest, most expensive option?

Comment Re:Mac with Windows is best (Score 1) 243

It's always amused me that the best way to revive an older Intel Mac with a modern OS is to throw Windows on it.

Though you don't have to go back very many years before the first Intel Mac to start getting into processors that Windows 10 won't run on. (It won't run on CPUs that lack NX, PAE or SSE2.)

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