CR/LF issues was definitely my primary use case for it when I first started getting into Linux, though it can also serve as a makeshift RTF editor/generator/parser (and I have used it for this in the course of my job a few times).

Mine worked quite well, actually, for about a week. Then it broke. It would occasionally show a message at the top that said it had problems connecting to the service, but as i recall, the bar was green and very low contrast (so i did not have noticed it initially). Chats that i had not previously switched to would not load, just a blank area with the text entry box. Chats I had loaded would load, but could not backscroll - worse, on these, you could 'send' messages that gave no indication of their failure to deliver. In the user list, statuses and 'last message' blurbs seemed to work properly (and gave the first hint that my messages were not being sent, as those were not updating with what i tried to send). Signing out broke it completely, and i reverted to the old version after that. Amusingly, on the same day, my other machine's 'classic' instance stopped working and now will require gutting it from the system and reinstalling it. There is some merit to just running it in a browser; i have had very few issues running it in firefox over the last 6 months, though it used to have really annoying issues (for me, at least) where it would choke on cookies several times a day.

Perhaps they suddenly realized that features frequently used by a small minority of users actually have value. My actual suggestion is that it's due to ever-escalating popularity: https://trends.google.com/tren...

Curious how much energy could be saved by dispensing with inefficient (often Javascript-based) client-side software. Not just websites (though this is probably the majority of it), but things like Adobe's Creative Cloud launcher and the trash that comes preinstalled on most store-bought machines.

Rounded or squared? Tastefully chamfered?

Just one window. XWindow.

While it would be a little more lenient for the 7th/8th, i'd say just go by powers of two. 2 days, 4 days, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and so on. Doubt there'll be too many 9th or 10th tries. Also breaks any common relationship with the calendar, so should be ever so slightly more annoying.

Obviously you're forgetting that time pornographers invaded and killed half the population.

This particular UID gets used as a placeholder. It can be found in archive.org captures, and the 'user' has no comment history.

It would also be nice if they weren't as prone to going off in an intractable inferno, but this usually only happens under extreme circumstances... so definitely good enough.

Around 12-13 years ago I accidentally made an emergency call from a clickwheel blackberry.

Some might know it as Fremdschämen or Fremdschamen) if /. can't cope with the character there)

Differential signalling such as used on Ethernet is good for preventing EM leakage, but the output data transmission is likely negligible in terms of effect on power consumption compared to the processing behaviors which are being exploited here.

I had completely forgotten about 'apps guy'... also the one that would dump those text walls that read like they didn't know how modern web browsing worked.

Something something greasy yoda doll something something crapflood