Some old wallwarts,wired into home net -- not visible externally--, have to be http and cannot work
with modern browsers. And basic internal net at home, it seems odd to insist on https.

the entire (old) idea of making the desktop appearance be like a tablet was terrible on day one and that mess shows through today.
No thank you.. xfce is just fine.

Since I have food allergies and science-based preferences on what to eat I simply could never find anything I would order if there was no human taking the order and answering detailed questions and acknowledging my choices. Grain-free? No meat? No fish? bad reaction to tomato, unwilling to eat foods at the bad end of glycemic index?

I am unimpressed by this restaurant idea. Won't be entering such.

Of course after MS bought it the Linux interface stopped working, which was, of course, predictable.

When the article mentions Ubuntu it seems they mean the Gnome standard desktop. I see no reason to assume the same bugs are in xfce4 or other desktops on Ubuntu.

Don't the Ubuntu folks run CoverityScan?

The only reason you suppose no one lives in the rainforests is A) nobody talks about it on the evening news, or B) you are not aware that the Amazon was entirely *planted* by its millions of residents, 95% of them killed off by European Germs in the 1500's 1600's. See 1493 book by Charles Mann and Dawn of everything by Graeber and Wengrow.

Anybody notice how interesting it is to consider short local drives and indication if mental issues to come, given we (in California) have all been told for the last year to stay home and not take trips?

Utah seems to believe that by passing a law they can make magic happen. Magically detect porn or other things they find objectionable.

Aside from the idiocy of the posting here , note that many sources are now speaking directly about the distinctly negative connotations (for non-white readers) of many terms used in computing and electronics. master, slave are just two such, and there are plenty of usable alternatives with no connection to 400+ years of slavery in the USA. Lets all agree to start changing our vocabulary. It's no joke to those whose families were slaves.

Those of us with eye issues don't ever see in binocular vision 3d and some of us are bemused by the lack of interest by people generally.

You can say cabbies "reply to certain rules" (fine...) but in the times I've taken
a cab I never felt safe and often felt ripped off. With Lyft...
I've been happy.

The advice of Doctors Gundry, Perlmutter, and some others is not the same at all. Read their books
to find the research.

Most research into diet involves Medical Reductionism, which means the study changes some one thing in the diet and measures what happens. But that's irrelevant (as a way to measure things) because only a substantial change in the diet is actually meaningful. Read the works by doctors Steven Gundry ("Plant Paradox") and David Perl mutter ("The Grain Brain") to understand a meaningful change and read T Colin Campbell ("The China Study" to understand the pernicious effect of medical reductionism. There has been much meaningful research done since 2000, but since the best recommendations involve a serious diet change and *no* drugs lots of researchers and doctors are not interested.

I hope MS does right by linux users, but...I'm sceptical given
the skype experience.

An unknown number of people have special eating needs. Driven, I suspect,
by the total revision of what and how food is grown and created
over the last 100 years. By needs I mean not hospital,
necessarily, but at least discomfort and immune system issues.

The Gluten Free and Paleo Diet consumers are a symptom of this great
change. Big Food prefers not to know about any of this as
it reflects on *all* their current product lines. Very
uncomfortable for grocery stores and more so for
restaurants.

it's not going away. I and many others can no longer eat
the 'Standard American Diet'. Period.