The reason for disabling swap is to induce memory pressure.

The goal is to make the OS handle low memory situations more gracefully. Ideally it would remain responsive, allowing the user to kill unneeded programs to free up memory. That improvement would also apply to scenarios where swap was enabled.

The cost of metering is so low that it would never have made sense for utilities to charge a flat monthly fee instead of charging by the kWh. Nowadays, cryptocurrency miners would make it insane to charge a flat rate.

You're short by an order of magnitude. Annual world electricity production is over 25 TWh, around 65% of that is fossil-fueled. With large (let's say 5 GW) nuclear plants at 90% capacity factor, over 400 would be needed to replace all fossil fuel electricity production.

Nobody buys the data from Google; Google uses the data to target ads, and charges advertisers extra for that service.

Now I want someone to chop the back of a Mini Cooper, to create an El CaMini.

The Ars Technica article says "produces 15,300 t/y of methanol" (doesn't specify short, long, or metric tons).

Divide by 365 to get t/day, divide by molecular weight of methanol (32.04 g/mol), multiply by molecular weight of CO2 (44.01 g/mol), I get 57.6 t/day of CO2 extracted from the ocean.

Does your "1200kg of CO2 per kW of solar capacity" assume that fossil energy is used to produce the panels? I couldn't readily find such a number, everything is about CO2 per kWh of energy produced over the lifetime of an installation. At any rate, the article says 24 MW of power, so (using your number) 28,800 Mg of CO2, which would make it 500 days of the 20 year projected lifetime to break even (assuming t is metric tons), and a lot of methanol would need to be stored somewhere.

The article says each complex of 70 "islands" (I guess artificial floating islands sounds better than anchored barges, which is what these would be) would generate 24 MW.

It says "we would need approximately 170,000 of these solar island systems", so 1,190,000 barges, with a total output power of 4080 GW.

The single nuclear plant would need roughly 640 times the capacity of the current most powerful fully operational nuclear plant.

It would truly be a sight to behold.

Glass containers are heavier than plastic, thus requiring more energy to transport.

Glass containers are more prone to breakage than plastic.

Glass containers are more expensive to produce.

The trade-offs are complex; for some products the old model might actually be better.

They separated paying for the phone from paying for the service.
Thus, they stopped screwing customers who didn't upgrade to a new subsidised phone every two years.

How is it that you believe non-sitcom programs have minimal to no product placement?

A dwarf planet is still a planet.
Of course, neither plutonium, neptunium, nor mercury were named after planets; the planets and elements were both named after deities.

In another post, I suggested using a square image sensor, so the device orientation when recording wouldn't matter.
Show crop lines while recording if the videographer wants to target a different aspect ratio.
There is precedent in taking 6 x 6 format photos on 120 film.

Laziness? Can't hold the device comfortably in landscape mode? Spend their entire life on the phone and can't comprehend that others might watch the video on a landscape screen?
The solution is to use a square sensor, record all of the data (video or still), and crop as needed.

If an Ents of Middle Earth game ever gets made, where the main characters are trees, the trees will look great.

Slim odds that caffeine just happens to be the best chemical for slowing crystal formation.

I'm optimistic that further research will lead to further improvement.