It's based on (2) happening, not (1).

I read speculation on this after the report came out, and supposedly the potential issue is that it's easy to put the fuel cut-off switches in a position that isn't locked. As a result, engine vibration or something like that can cause the switches to slide back into the cut-off position.

Not a pilot, commenting on speculation, so take that for what little it's worth. The thing to me is that even if it's the case Boeing's original switch had that flaw, the fact the switches were replaced twice since the flaw was discovered suggests it's improbable now.

Then you're not looking hard enough?

PS/2 keyboard slots are standard on higher end motherboards because they're a secure way to add a keyboard - many orgs disable USB for security purposes.

PS/2 never became obsolete, just non-mainstream.

better yet, set an activation time at which a few weeks worth of drones will simultaneously activate and attack a range of Russian sites . . .

uhm . . .. let's see . . . "In soviet Russia, the data backs *you* up!" ?

"destroyed by their reaction of hiding"

My point was exactly that while we think we have all the context we need, we sometimes don't, to potentially devastating effect. The fact that the internet brigade has a high chance of being "right" in this case doesn't invalidate the point. People can have perfectly legitimate reasons to not want the details of who they're in a relationship with broadcast at large.

All you post tells me is that people are very hungry to see people "get what they deserve" and extrapolate all sorts of things to make them feel justified about doing so.

I opened my post with "I think cheating is bad" so what do you think, dummy?

I think in broad strokes, infidelity is bad, but when it comes to a specific case, I'd say nobody is in a position to judge without much more context.

And that's what makes this kind of stuff rather shitty. People feel confident filling in all sorts of details from their own imagination and prejudices, and even if you get it mostly right 9 times out of 10 (to be very charitable, in my opinion) does that excuse the 10% of the time where the internet mob is wrong?

I don't think this administration has any appetite for doing anything remotely pro-consumer.

> Translation; Although we know damn well the difference between a laptop and a desktop, we’ve lied on surveys for years now for the purposes of marketing popularity.

There's no lie. Nobody is interested in how many desktop form factor computers run Linux vs how many laptops do. I doubt Microsoft breaks down the stats either for their desktop operating systems. And it's not as if the data is easily available, web browsers - by far the most common way to measure and extrapolate desktop numbers - do not report whether the underlying system is a desktop or laptop.

We're using "desktop" as shorthand but it's technically inaccurate, which goes back to my original point that the definitions are fuzzy but we kinda know what we mean and ultimately what number we're interested in.

Also just counting GNU/Linux on "desktop" form factor computers would probably show us getting 20-30% of the market, given the number of repurposed otherwise-obsolete desktop boxes being run as NASes/media servers, etc vs the number of laptops in the same role. If marketing were a factor, the GNU/Linux community would definitely be trumping our percentage of desktop form factor boxes...

Look very carefully and I'm seeing a pull-back from ChromeOS/Office 365 type models as people start to re-evaluate whether they want their files managed by third parties who increasingly demonstrate they don't have the power to provide the product they're advertising. When a United Nations official can have their own account shut down because the US government is run by a man not afraid to lash out in response to his own grudges (https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-email-block-a-wake-up-call-for-digital-sovereignty-10387383.html) it's a wake-up call that tells you maybe businesses - at minimum - should be managing their own core infrastructure.

I used to be happy encouraging people to use these tools, but Google was once relatively trustworthy, and there was no apparent reason to think Microsoft's bad behavior would extend beyond price rises, adding features people don't want and taking features away people do want, and file format shenanigans. I would not recommend anything like that any more. There are free open source self-hosted replacements for virtually everything right now that give you the same advantages as the cloud stuff with none of the disadvantages. And as entire governments move over to that (as they are), that's going to trickle down to normal users like you and I.

You made me look it up and... wow, 25%, give or take 10% depending on who's doing the measuring. That's an amazing step up for Mac OS X, and I wonder if the primary GNU/Linux desktop wasn't GNOME whether we'd have similar figures by now.

I can see that argument for Wayland. SystemD is merely a fixed sysvinit (albeit a little complicated so annoying to some - though annoyingly the same team have put out a shit load of shitty tools and added "systemd" to their names to do whatever they can to make the systemd "brand" unpopular, but systemd itself is what you'd expect to design if you wanted to autostart and stop daemons but include dependency checking) and Pipewire is just the replacement for PulseAudio, supporting more types of media.

I wouldn't say either are remotely like Windows, indeed I can't even think of what the Windows equivalent of Pipewire or PulseAudio would be.

(Arguably neither Pipewire nor PulseAudio should ever have existed, they were created because the kernel devs didn't understand audio and so a userland solution was created that... wasn't ideal for a whole bunch of reasons least of all the same spiky dev that's also helping make systemd unpopular. Wayland, quite literally, should not exist. It's a terrible idea.)

We've been (quite reasonably!) quietly counting laptops as desktops for the purposes of these types of survey so I suspect the definitions have always been fuzzy.

But that said, maybe we should be counting desktop GNU/Linux installs - ie installs where GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, etc are included in the primary installation and are used at least once, and the installation should include the GNU userland,. That's a little fuzzier though, how many desktops does GNU/Linux have these days?

Movies aren't usually filmed any more. And IIRC IMAX's digital format is a variant of 2K (a weird "two overlapping 2K images" thing), as opposed to mainstream cinema's 4 and 8K.

So, with that in mind, I think the conventional cinemas today have an edge on quality, even if not on screen size.

Steam has always had adult controls on it, and the existence of Family Mode with the ability for an account holder to set a PIN which, if not entered, will only show a subset of the games, suggests you're not talking about Steam at all.