So basically the same thing that Ubuntu's two-year "LTS" track does. Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" is feeling fairly old at the moment. Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" was released a week ago to users on the semiannual "interim" track, and it'll be offered to LTS users come the first point release about three months from now. Drinkypoo has a point, however, that Debian has no direct counterpart to Ubuntu's interim track.

When you self-hosted Git and an issue tracker, how did you take care of these?

1. Last I checked on DigitalOcean's website, a VPS in that price range would have 1 GB of RAM. And last I checked, MariaDB took 300 MB of that by itself. How do you fit Linux + front end web server + MariaDB + Forgejo into 1 GB of RAM?
2. People need to sign up again to report bugs or contribute patches. Signing up is itself a friction, not to mention that your VPS is probably not already trusted by the major email providers. This means one-time codes for signup confirmation and password reset are likely to end up in the user's spam folder at best, if not just dropped without notification.

A lot of people can't self-host because they're behind an ISP that blocks incoming TCP connections. It's fine if you already own a domain name, already lease a VPS with big enough RAM to run Linux, a front-end web server, MariaDB, and Forgejo (that is, more than a dinky little 1 GB droplet on DigitalOcean), and already pay for smarthosting of your outbound email to make transactional messages deliverable to would-be contributors who use the big three webmail providers (Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo). Otherwise, that's a chunk of change every year.

Not always. Grown-ups had been able to purchase games with a debit card, which does not prove age, or with a PlayStation Store gift card purchased with cash.

Last I heard, the trade policy was set to deter importing cars made in China into the United States. BYD having been blocked from setting up a factory on United States soil and hiring United States residents to produce cars for the United States market is news to me. The interview that Wikipedia cites states only that BYD isn't planning to build in the US or Mexico for the US market, not why that's the case. Searching DuckDuckGo for "is byd blocked from setting up factory in usa" didn't turn up relevant results either.

So to buy a car, you have to first buy a house, or at least buy out the rest of your lease in favor of somewhere to live whose parking could support a charger.

Consider the case of buying a car and then changing jobs. How practical is it to choose where to work based on whether the office has a charger?

Not to mention that a lot of ICE car drivers aren't rich enough to afford a new car, only a used car. And a lot of ICE car drivers live in the United States, where BYD has chosen not to build a factory, and have an ethical disagreement with the leadership of Tesla.

You are correct with respect to their internal storage.

However, say you want to interchange files among several computers using removable media, such as an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive. One is a Windows PC that prefers NTFS, another a Mac that prefers Apple's FS, and another a Linux PC that prefers ext4. What file system would you use on the drive?

The octets of invalid information mark the address as fictional, as opposed to being the live address of a real machine. Telephone subscribers in several area codes started receiving prank phone calls after the 1982 release of "867-5309/Jenny", a song by the band Tommy Tutone containing a live numeric address on the US phone network. This led US TV show producers to start using the 555 (or KLondike 5) exchange, which was largely set aside for fictional use.

The difference is that if the customer is on IPv6, the customer is more likely to have a globally unique address. This means the customer is at least technically capable of forwarding an inbound port across a stateful firewall, provided the ISP doesn't deliberately interfere with port forwarding the way T-Mobile US (a wireless ISP using 5G NR) does with its home Internet service. The TV commercials don't mention that T-Mobile home Internet is an outbound-only service.

I seem to remember that Slashdot subscriptions lasted a specific number of page views before expiring. Slashdot stopped offering them a couple acquisitions ago. Yours probably expired.

Changes to building and zoning codes over the past half century have made building "the size of house that people bought 50 years ago" illegal in many cases. You can't buy such a house if such a house isn't on the market, and you may not build a new one under current law.

See also "Why minimum lot size reform should be on every city’s housing agenda" by Patrick Tuohey.

Linus Torvalds is a dual citizen. He was born a citizen of Finland and became a citizen of the United States in 2010. (Source: "Linus Torvalds, already an Oregonian, now a U.S. citizen" by Mike Rogoway, citing a post to LKML by Torvalds)

It'd be more interesting to count commits by nationality. I'm pretty sure Torvalds no longer has the lion's share of commits.

Microsoft has control over distribution of the copyrighted Windows operating system. It has used this control to dictate whether or not makers of devices that include Windows are allowed to let users load their own custom keys. For example, Microsoft required makers of devices that come with Windows RT (the port of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to ARM architecture) to block end users from turning off Secure Boot and block end users from loading their own custom keys, as conditions for a license under copyright to distribute Windows RT on those devices.

How granular would the permission be? If web browsers start blocking all animation and post-load layout shifting by default, including CSS transitions and animations, this would encourage website operators to structure the page to coerce permission to animate in each document. For example, a website operator could make each page load blank other than a notice to the effect "Tap or click to view 'Title of Article' on Name of Site."

In my experience on laptops and tablets, I've found the exact opposite (eager loading) helpful in some situations with limited or no data. I would download an entire page on unmetered Wi-Fi, go offline, and read while riding as a passenger in a car or bus.