You have 2 companies who each end up in the bottom 10 of the country's most hated companies, both are considered monopolies, and yet somehow, due to, I dunno, campaign contributions, you think letting them join forces to fuck their customers more than each entity alone can do, is a good thing?

I hate the D's and the R's equally, who the fark can I fire for letting this merger go through? Oh, none? You mean, I'm helpless? If I say any more I'll have agents from DHS at my door before my alarm goes off tomorrow morning.

I hit /. daily, fark daily, run Linux daily. I've heard of Wayland, but have no idea what it is. So, um, WTF is Wayland and why should I care? Summary, help me out?

Yep, first website I gave my CC info to was hothothot.com, back in, dunno, 92/93. Ordered hot sauce, the standout was Sriacha, aka Rooster Sauce. Website is long gone, as are the other things I ordered to get free shipping, but I go through 3/4 Sriacha bottles a year to this day. I think the Rooster sauce was the thing I used to push shipping to free, funny how things work.

Interesting. I clicked on this and there were no comments. Made the above comment and now I see lots of comments, starting 3 hours ago, all saying the same thing I did. sigh.

Google's massively more popular services that come preloaded on all Android devices."

More like Google's massive amount of crapware that you never use, can't delete, can't move to a smartcard with 10x the memory of the internal memory.

Ahhh, I'd figured you flipped the switch to Beta, only to find out it was still Alpha.

Most of my work is in either embedded systems or Linux device drivers. In both cases recursion is a Really Bad Thing (tm) if you can't promise not to wipe out your stack.

Plug it into my TV, then let me stream music/video from my laptop. My laptop is harder to lose than a small remote (hello Roku, lost your @!#$$ remote over the holidays), usually within arms reach, can access my 3 TB NAS, and is easy to get content onto. My TV is plugged into my stereo, and the stereo remote is not only nice and big, but gets used several times a day. Currently the only way to play my music on my stereo is to burn a CD.

/ not picking on you Roku // I seem to have issues with small, seldom used remotes

I run Thunderbird on my laptop. It connects to gmail, downloads my mail, and lets me sort the mail into folders. Not to mention always having a local copy of my mail. Couldn't tell you the last time I went to gmail.com from a browser.

Don't even get me started on tags. I hate tags, don't understand why anyone would like them. Put my mail into folders and leave me be.

It's a no-brainer. We just need to take it to the next level to turn this into a win-win situation. The best practice is to get rid of the low-hanging fruit first. Ping me with an agenda so we can go flag up on this thing

to "finger", cuz someone put a ring on it.

About a year ago I had a craftsman socket driver I bought in the 70's crap out on me. Took it to Sears, showed the clerk the ratchet mechanism no longer worked, he gave me a brand spankin new one.

Yeah, a month or so ago I picked up a few USB and HDMI cables from the 99 cent store. Not because I needed them, but because I saw them there and those things are handy to have around.

Some 20 years ago I worked for a small company who's lead programmer was legally blind. He wasn't 100% blind, but had very little vision. He worked on a Linux box that had one of the biggest screens available at the time, and his font size was huge. I could easily read his screen from across the room.

Guy was a phenomenal programmer. His code seldom had bugs. He knew the entire code-base inside out. Basically, as it was so hard for him to read code, he memorized it when he did read it.

My top priority is being able to have Thunderbird connect to the mail server. I much prefer having my email local, rather than in "the cloud".