Mainstream country music has been pop rock with twang and even dumber lyrics (not that pop is typically profound) for decades now. Bo Burnham's country song really says it a lot better than anything else I've seen yet.

The font is a deliberate decision whether it's a bot or not, on which I have no firm opinion. A variety of accounts (how many different people are involved is anyone's guess) have chosen to set their output in monospace over the years here. I think of them like hipsters. Monospace is inferior for the majority of tasks (except arguably for programming, and for a few data processing tasks where the data is naturally columnar when represented with fixed character width) so they're making a decision to make you read their thoughts in an inferior fashion. You could of course override fixed width text but my recollection is that Slashdot uses the classic HTML for this purpose and not something you could conveniently override without affecting other text that you might not want to make monospace. However, I haven't looked at the CSS recently so you might have options there.

I handle it by simply not reading anything they write. As a speed reader I unfortunately sometimes read parts of their comments by accident, but otherwise I choose not to consume any of it. They want to make it harder to read? Fine, in that case I'll pass.

Domestic buyers have to have money, so they have to have jobs, etc etc. They have official unemployment over 5% and among employable youth it's over 13%. Cars which sit degrade. This is more true for ICEVs but it's still true for EVs. And actually it's more true for EVs if they aren't kept charged, but I was assuming basic maintenance (washes, waxes, fluid changes, battery charging) being done in both cases to be generous.

I agree that those two things should happen at the same time. But I stand by the vast majority of AC comments being trolling or worse (e.g. uncreative trolling) and the "feature" being a huge detriment to the quality of Slashdot.

I don't know many people these days, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. However, it's super common for people with fiber to have 2.5GbE to the routermodem. I also live in a BFE county that's just now getting fiber to ONE city, so even if I knew a lot of people, I'd still be the wrong person to ask. But I'm also not representative in general, so again, wrong person to ask.

I think unfortunately the Apple hardware is much better than whats available for Android in the tablet ecosystem.

That said, personally I feel that the Apple ecosystem is much worse than Androids for tablet applications despite claims to the contrary. While its been a while since I used and Android tablet when I did all the applications would fill the screen, on Apple there are a large number of applications which only have phone layouts thus render in a small window on a tablet. Also, ipad's notification system is shockingly bad compared to Android.

The other part that sucks is being stuck with Safari. On Android phones I use Firefox with ublock origin, with safari you're limited to content blockers which are much more restricted in terms of their capabilities so its not unusual to end up with ads or broken pages. I assume if you're in Europe there might be other options?

2.5 GbE is cheap and common, you can find it on $100 motherboards. Switches are very cheap, even managed ones. There's simply no good reason not to use 2.5 GbE.

And buying more than one item negates that store tactic.

This is a long solved problem. Round the final bill up or down to the nearest 5 or 0.

I'm probably going to go for the 48GB/1TB as far as storage.

I tend to try and buy a laptop that I'll use for several years, this seems like my best bet right now. It will be replacing a 9 year old Dell Precision laptop that I've been using daily since it was new.

I have experienced this myself, but I have also experienced the reverse many times. There are also many games that won't run on Linux at all. Most of these have Windows kernel DRM, so I wouldn't buy them anyway myself, but I'm not the whole market.

You don't need to have a monopoly for antitrust laws to apply. Only you brought up monopolies.

And as counter-argument I'm supposed to trust an AC? HahaHAHHahaHahAHhaHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAH

If the objective is to maximize profit uber alles of course you ONLY want the most profitable customers. You can maximize your profit function by driving all of the least profitable customers to your competitors--and why would you care if you drive those customers completely out of the market? Profit uber alles!

But when you focus too much on any single dimension the system will eventually implode along that dimension. Have a nice flight?

Thanks for the details, though it still doesn't give me much hint regarding my situation with an Internet-related service and the associated hardware...

US military in Europe did away with pennies in 1980. The only place you could use a penny was the Post Office.
Nary a problem.

Round up or down to the nearest .05 or .0. It averages out over time.