By the time the summons was served the recording would already have timed out and been deleted.

Push-starting is much less necessary because starters and batteries are a lot more reliable than they were even 30 years ago.

Duh. You can't totally get rid of all pollution involved with personal transport.

That doesn't mean you can't _reduce_ it drastically, and it doesn't mean you should go 'Welp, can't be perfect, might as well roll coal.'

Some screens take a little bit to wake up from sleep, so it's annoying if they do that when you're nearby and referring to something on the screen.

I have my screensaver come on a few minutes before the screen sleep. That way if I'm building a model or something with instructions up, I can see it's starting to snooze and hit a key to stop it, without having to wait for the screens to wake up.

And of course, back in ye olde days, monitors didn't have a sleep function, so screensavers were a lot more important.

A non-techy friend asked me to suggest a computer for her to get, as hers was on its last legs. She told me what she wanted to do with it, I worked up some specs, and...
  Alienware was the best price, by a long shot. It felt _really weird_ to be suggesting an Alienware as a value buy. I had only even looked there on a lark, to see how bad it'd be.

I still wouldn't get one myself, since I don't like flashy cases and I'm really picky about my hardware, but for a 'normal person', with solid specs, a good price, and on-site warranty service?

How is making the UI continually worse a 'swing at going legit'?

Is there a certain amount of enshittification required for legitimatude?

I got one of those inverter kits because I needed to use my generator so infrequently that every time it would've been useful it was busted.

The inverter's less convenient but also less likely to Just Not Work.

One of the biggest bummers of switching to Linux as my daily driver is that I've never really gotten DirOpus to work well for me in wine. Alas.

... I'm still salty at Fitbit for killing the Pebble II watches.

I still use a Pebble Time. It doesn't do as much as newer watches, but it does the things it does really well.

More features I don't want that will be unreasonably difficult, or impossible, to turn off!

Unfortunately, there are entire genres of games that don't work on Linux, mostly because of anticheat.

None of the popular battle royale games work in Proton, and in fact won't even run in a Windows install inside VMware. (PUBG and Fortnite are a complete no-go.)

Other than that I've been able to get most games working with more or less faffing about although sometimes there are completely baffling issues I could certainly understand people not wanting to deal with.

Steam Deck has an AMD GPU and this requires an nVidia GPU.

If you can't afford a $25,000 EV and you use more than 200 miles a day in commuting, then you should move closer to work. The money you save on gasoline will be huge.

(Actually, if you qualify for the Federal tax credit, you can get one for just under $20k.)

To be fair, actual dead people have been in movies - there's a skeleton out there that willed her remains to the film industry. (She was a stage actress in life, and wanted to keep acting after she kicked the bucket.) She was 'Arch Stanton' in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Which is both creepy and kind of awesome.

Even AMD's h264 encoder on Linux is butt. A small but notable percentage of files come out looking green.

I've never had a GPU-accelerated encoder produce consistently good files, on any GPU or OS. I just use the CPU, it's not worth the hassle.