Not to rain on anyone's parade. But StatCounter's global stats show a 91% market share for Google, 3% for Bing and 7/10 of 1% for DDG.

In April the Financial Post estimated that there were 1.2 billion MS Office users. MS Office has evolved from the stand-alone Office suite of the 90s to simply one component of an mature integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size. This is where things like HIPPA compliance and collaborative tools beyond Outlook become important. The geek isn''t used to thinking like a clerical worker or an office manager and what is needed to be productive in this space.

When shopping for a new phone, customers look for deals from their local carriers, big box stores, and the online giants like Amazon Recognizable names with a competitive feature set. Obscure manufacturers, operating systems and unfamiliar apps aren't going to make the cut. I've side-loaded apps on a throwaway Fire Stick. Never onto a $900+ cell phone. Which simply must work come hell or high water.

Thomas Jefferson built Poplar Forest as a personal retreat and architectural experiment. The roof always leaked and while the hexagonal design made for a dramatic central core the angular interior spaces were hard to organize and furnish in any useful way.

Y'know, the Nobel is supposed to be awarded for work the recipient did in the previous year. Yeah, most of the time these days, it's not, but that's how it's supposed to work.

It was tried. But it lead to awards for work whch proved to be deeply flawed or inconsequential, It takes time to recognize the truly foundational - transformative - works in the arts anc sciences.

In Star Trek "The Enemy Within'" Kirk learned the hard way that without his animal instincts and ambitions he lacked the initiative and decisiveness needed to command the ship. A sound moral compass Isn't enough.

"TOTP App paired with a YUBI key." In less than a single paragraph you've left 99.9 % of your audience who want to ditch their passwords but are not hard-core geeks hopelessly lost about ten miles back.

Firefox's market share drops from 30% to 3% in ten years. 46 million users. It is waste of time asking the geek for an explanation. He would be barely visible as a rounding error. The truth is that almost every contemporary bplatforn - including the smart TV and the video game console - has a serviceable default browser. But even the PC is becoming increasingly app-oriented as Windows 11 makes plain. It is becoming harder to see how something as mundane as the web browser could have ever generated such passions.

Well, it is aa brilliant an idea as making your expensive hardwood floor electrically conductive.

AOL had a lot to offer in it's prime, something the geek has never been willing to adimit. AOL integrated e-mail, chat, instant messaging, file transfers, etc, into a single easy-to-use client, with all the complexities hidden below the surface. One that played nicely with third-party software like mIRC Chat, there was USENET, a web browser, later IE4, and there was Neverwinter Nights. Flat rate monthly billing and local dial-up accesss.

The drug is used in humans to head llice and other parasites. But not orally in the doses calibrated for an animal that weighes 900-2000 lbs and quite normally pass about 50 lbs of waste a day. If you want purge your system more inconvently and explosively than the prep for a colonoscopy be my guest.

The producer needs a crystal ball. That will tell him what audiences will be looking for five to ten years down the road. The project that won't be derailed somewhere along the way by studio in-fighting, financial problems, technical problems, story, script or casting.

The earliest surviving film adaptation of Cinderella is from 1899. Roger & Hammerstein produced a musical for television inn1957. But the only version of thr old legends and fairy tales the geek ever seems to know and wants to criib from belong to Disney.

Early automobiles took a lot of punishment. Ford tried to keeo the most exposed and vulnerable components simple and easily repairable by any rural mechanic. That was not true of things like the casting of the engine block.

The mainstream distros got that way by reaching out to users who were not hard-core O$ geeks.