USB-A is legacy and is going away. It's like serial ports and VGA. Get an adapter for single accessories (they're CHEAP, like $5 for two) or get a little travel dock if you need several USB-A ports and only have one or two USB-C. (or go wireless)

Everything is either going wireless (because it can) or USB-C (because of the laundry list of upgrades it provides)

In a few years the only new things I expect to see on the market that are USB-A are the handful of things still trying to get minimal power or charging. Though even charging is going away due to the low power delivery of USB-A.

Right now Woot's got a dual USB-C 35w GaN charger for $7, and a decent USB-C travel dock for $14. If you're still clinging onto USB-A, start your transition now. Just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.

I'm surprised that any (non-dictator) government today doesn't have a clear path-of-succession in place. The US has like six steps of succession iirc?
Sure, when you're digging that deep into the barrel you're not getting someone with the best of qualifications for the position, but at least you have a name.

Any group that complains they should be the only ones to use something as common as a generic feather in their logo loses all my respect.

And I don't like other groups caving to complaints like this because it sets a terrible example.

"They take much better photos but since there's no option for a cloud backup even if manually triggered, I'm left with finding a local solution that is always going to be more cumbersome."

Wifi SD cards exist and will let you transfer photos from camera to computer.

Go check out the artifical sweetener "L-glucose", it's glucose, but mirrored. It still tastes sweet, but the body can't metabolize it.

Tell me one thing you do now that you couldn't do on a 32-bit system.

The Apollo moon lander only had 8-12 bit memory.

If you need a 64-bit system to do what we did on far less in the 70s, well, that's a skill issue.

"Preventing police from having lethal force available isn't a real alternative"

Yes it is and you'd better re-read our constitution to show where it in fact is proscribed as a remedy - that removal of one's life without DUE PROCESS is a violation of the constitution.

So disarm the fuckers until they can show they're worthy enough to hold a gun.

Andrew Ferguson is probably sitting in the Epstein files.

"The issue is that gmail ONLY filters republican political spam"

No it doesn't, I have it filter out ALL political spam.

"Anyone who can't see the blatant hypocrisy is either ignorant, an idiot or is duplicitous."

No, you're just fucking stupid.

As a chronic imgur user from day one, yes imgur will transcode certain formats straight to webp.

and humans eat as many as 100 spiders per day!

it's easy to get impressive numbers when you prefix it with "as much as". That's just the upper limit. Often not even anywhere near the average

Clickbait.

"Why the fuck would mileage matter much for the calculations?"

Emitted particulate caused by vehicle degradation over time, more specifically tires, bushings, hoses and wiring, etc.

I drive like a full fucking bat out of hell on some of the hardest mountain desert terrain out there, often with a full load of said mountain both inside and attached to my vehicle (trailer.) I do not go through tires nearly as fast as an EV.

Oh, and most EV drivers do drive like idiots. Bolts, Teslas, i-drives, etc. Almost all of them appear clueless as to even the location of their turn signals.

Bet some of those rankings change

People that consider themselves vital, but then have to take steps to create artificial vitality - their own actions are proving them wrong.

If you were truly vital, your simple absence would be a disaster all by itself. If you have to engineer that condition, you're NOT vital. This is just an arrogant, self-important narcissist behaving badly and getting what they've got coming, at the cost of others.

I don't think there are enough stories like this in the news. It's pretty easy to find accounts BY such individuals that created kill switches and caused chaos when they were dismissed. It's good to see one of them get hat they deserve. Jokers like this give the rest of us a bad name.