I don't know what people are talking about, you can do that in the US too via Zelle. I know some banks don't offer it, but I've never had any trouble with my bank who does. Email or phone, money sent, or received.

"Van Sabben passed away in the United Arab Emirates two weeks after the Stuxnet attack as a result of a motorcycle accident. "

It came as part of just about anything Java, from business applications to Minecraft. Many of those applications are stuck for whatever reason at their version. For instance, the next version probably involves a subscription or a move to the cloud, I can think of several things around because of that. So it's not a real surprise given its ubiquity that there is still a population of vulnerable versions out there, especially if the update depended on the overall update to the application.

A Latin professor taught a class I was in, and he showed me one day his work on the Herculaneum scrolls. At the time they were still trying to unroll them, so they had a lot of fragments, and were using things like X-ray spectroscopy and electron microscopes to identify the bits with ink then reassemble them, like the world's worst jigsaw puzzle. There were all kinds of complicated attempts to unroll the scrolls, ranging from looms with strings and glue to just picking them slowly apart, but then the 3D scanning came along to show some amazing results.

These look fun!

The FriendlyElec stuff is almost three times the price. The NanoPC-4 is something like $170 on Amazon. The PI is overpriced, I agree, but it's not the same thing.

I see them too, but they seem pricey. Cheapest Pi 4 is $64.

Personally I like Mint a lot too, and Debian is a sound choice as usual. OpenSuSE is just really polished and extremely configurable, but with configs that work fine out of the box. RIght now I run Tumbleweed on our main laptop/desktop, Leap for a backend server, and I have Win8 and WinXP VMs i keep around solely for some ancient radio programming software that won't run on anything else.

I've run it at home for years and I can't think of any complaints. Tumbleweed is stable enough for daily use, how they do that I don't know. Their testing automation must be amazing. I had to boot from a previous snapshot once in a couple of years. Otherwise, it just works fine. KDE has many complicated configuration options, but you don't have to use them. Most software you want is packaged in the ready repos, if not usually someone's packaged it via OBS and you can easily get it by searching. Gaming is amazing - Steam works fine and just about all games i have run out of the box when the box to use the Proton tool is checked in Steam. It's good stuff, and like OP mentioned, no snap stores or anything, except it does use systemd.

Short term rentals used to be just a way to make extra cash from temporarily unused space. That lasted about a day then it turned into fully exploiting the neighborhoods for money. We worked hard to make those neighborhoods nice places, only to have our efforts siphoned into giant property companies buying up properties and exploiting all the nice things we build, draining our local households and harming the local schools.

They're publicly traded, they have to grow. They aren't in a good spot, their hardware was awesome back in the day (and in my mind still beats a Fire stick) but it's almost commoditzed now. No one sells just hardware, unless you decide that's what you do and just diversity into lots of types of hardware. I don't expect them to last, or things will change so much I'll stop using my Roku 3 finally and switch over to Kodi permanently.

And gaming on Linux has come an *incredibly* long way. I haven't felt any real need for Windows in a long time - Steam runs well on it, most games work just fine out of the box, a few need a tweak to launch options. Most older standalone ones work ok via Wine with almost no setup (it works better for the really older stuff than Windows, for sure.) I keep Win XP and Win 8 VMs around to run two very specific pieces of software to program radios, that only run on those systems. If I need massive MS Office use, there's Office 365 for which you have to pay anyway if you need Excel, Windows or no. The browsers are all the same. It's hard to think of reasons to stick with Windows.

I mentioned this elsewhere but procedural planet generation has been around since Star Flight, in 1987, at least.

We should be up to gigaplanets by now, at least.

I've been picking up used HGST drives off bitdeals.tech for NAS drives, they've been great. I think I had one bad one on startup in a batch of probably 20 and the others have been running now for a few years in their second life, no issues.