Nonsense. There is an upgrade option when you boot from the ISO or ISO image.

Yes, and FYI that "upgrade option" is a full reinstall (which you must do twice a year, if you choose that route).

I tried, but hardware support in the BSD world was frankly pathetic. NetBSD doesn't support ACPI suspend-to-disk and needs special kernel configuration just to show readable characters on the framebuffer console, on my old laptop. FreeBSD and NetBSD wouldn't even finish booting on one of my systems -- a run of the mill, 12 year old amd64 desktop PC that never had any problems with Linux.

I haven't tried OpenBSD lately. Although it's really high quality, its upgrade schedule is unacceptably hectic for me. I like stability on my systems; whereas, with OpenBSD, you must reinstall the whole system at least once a year, if you want to keep it secure (and if you don't, I don't see why you're running that particular OS in the first place). What OpenBSD really needs are long-term support releases.

What the BSD world needs is BETTER HARDWARE SUPPORT if they ever want to be serious, viable contenders. I'd love to switch away from Linux, which is getting more and more fragmented and unstable. But the simple fact is that, today, there is no serious alternative in the Unix[-like] world.

People do not get that fundamental physics is over

Laughable. It's not over until we know everything, and we clearly don't.

The Nobel prize for peace is such a joke that it only brings discredit upon the receivers.

Better yet: change browser. If a piece of software tries to screw the users over, users shouldn't have to find a way around it: they should junk it. That's what that software deserves.

OTOH, users shouldn't be expected to keep up with all the news about how their software is trying to screw them, because that would be like a full-time job these days. So let's avoid blaming the victims, which is always a popular sport on Slashdot. Google is at blame here, not the users who weren't so computer-savvy as to disable one obscure setting or switch to a different browser.

Furthermore, Google being the sneaky bastards they are, who's to say that setting will be honoured at all?

If they can do that, it doesn't seem too far fetched that they could also turn on the phone's cameras and microphones at will.

Gimme a break. I bet they haven't changed one line of code.

You can't stop crypto-currencies any more than you can stop gravity from working.

Now that's what I call a fitting comparison!

Don't you guys get it? He may want the community to be less dependent

As usual, Linus' hints were too subtle. Will he ever learn to speak his mind in no uncertain terms?

Italian politicians even blamed the EU for the recent bridge collapse in Genoa

False. Are you paid to help the French prez spread bullshit or are you trolling for free?

It's a well-known urban legend.

The latter is an urban legend, though.

s/great/easier/

Of course not. Trolls don't have sources.

after all Italy prosecuted a couple of geologists for failing to predict an earthquake.

This bullshit again? They were prosecuted for saying there was no risk and that people should go back home.