It's not going to be safe to sit in a movie theater until there is an effective vaccine, and most of the population has received it.
October surprise? 2024? 2030? Who knows? Maybe no permanent vaccine is even possible.

By the time this is "over," a lot of people -- myself included -- ain't coming out of quarantine. No cruises, concerts, sporting events... nothing in a crowd, or indoors in large numbers.

Users are advised not to handle any received faxes for a day or two..

...at the most profitable mall in the country, we have an Apple store and (apparently) had a Microsoft store.

I went in there for a MS support issue... I was the only customer in the huge store, and they asked if I had an appointment!
I replied, "If I wanted to need an appointment, I would have bought a Mac. There are two hundred people shopping over at the Apple store, so this is quicker."

It needs the .exe files, and cards.dll for the games to function

...and I include the complete set of Windows XP games, with Start menu shortcuts, because I want to play solitaire without logging into anything.

Of course, I'm appalled, but I have a hemi Charger Pursuit, and I work IT for a nationwide chain of nursing homes, so I'm thinking hard about my summer vacation plans.

...because we have a few of those channels on our Fios, and they SUCK. Old, retreaded content, repeated endlessly.

We each needed a mercantile license in the cities where we were allowed to pick up, so the police did a background check on us before we were allowed to drive a taxi. The people getting INTO the taxi, however, could be pretty much anybody: they all paid cash (or didn't), and even when you picked up at a known address you were taking your chances. We used to joke about getting "lead poisoning" from some random passenger.

Now, the passengers are all identified by Uber with at least a name and credit card number, but the drivers are anyone who can fill out the online application.

Go on the HP Web site and download the "Basic drivers" for that model. Go into the Internet Usage and other functions and uncheck all the boxes that would allow the driver to send info to HP.
This has been going on for years.

I work from home over a VPN. My life gets better every time I increase my bandwidth.
We're using "gigabit" Fios now, which is actually close to 900 Mbps in both directions, and it rocks. Even mundane tasks like sending or downloading a large file (we're buying a house) are SO much easier.

When we started the house search, I told my wife "no fiber, no sale." She agreed instantly, since she and her mother can do anything they want online without me complaining that they're interrupting my work...

I don't get this opposition. You'd do something else, wouldn't you? Why would you consider always going to the lowest common denominator just because someone might have a flip phone?

If the options are "rely on an app", "don't rely on an app", and you can't do the first because your phone can't do that for whatever reason, you fall back to the second. But if you can do the first in a particular case and it works better for that case, why wouldn't you? It's wrong to use the better solution as a last resort, it's better to use the best solution that is available to the situation.

... and shut it down once a week or so.
(If you don't turn off "hybrid sleep" in the Power settings, you're not really shutting it down unless you restart it).

Apparently having taxpayers take the risk is far more virtuous.

It is time we see if we can get WSL to run inside of WINE on ReactOS; just make sure to pay for your SCO license ahead of time!

Despite being the best, most lightweight, and easily customizable window manager that's actively maintained, QVWM still appears to be missing from the repositories.

It is however, present in Arch Linux.