A bigger problem than the anonymous coward you quoted seems to be aware of. Someone who doesn't know they are HIV+ you cannot be treated. Most people who are are aware of their HIV+ status and treated eventually become undetectable, and the consensus is that undetectable is effectively untransmittable (see: "people who take ART daily as prescribed and achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner").

The risk is much greater from someone who says they're "negative" but only because they've never been tested. As bad of an idea as the poster's "list" would be anyway, it has no chance of helping here, where the greater danger lies.

Even worse, so many apps now (on mobile devices especially) have dumbed their release notes down to something that isn't even release notes. You 've seen them--things like: "We're making things better in every release. Make sure you have automatic updates turned on!" without even the slightest hint of something resembling the summary of a changelog (which, at least, "fixed various bugs" might be).

Please tell me what battery technology they are using when a pair of what appear to be typical AAA alkalines are capable of powering an always-on microphone and sending all your data to Amazon for the year or so Fire TV remote batteries tend to last.

Even if you don't trust Amazon, the remote doesn't do anything on its own--it has to go through the Fire device to get a network connection. If that's off, then...

Generally speaking, dictionaries define words as they are used. They do not prescribe how words "should" be used. The dictionary only says that because that is historically how the words were used. If the meaning of the words as people use them changes, most dictionaries will, too. That being said, with rare exception, most dictionaries document meaning as used in "standard" usage, with is how many would say that language "should" be used, but there are a variety of non-standard usages (and the standard itself is more or less arbitrary). As these become more popular, most dictionaries at least include usage notes for these--and after enough generations, some of these even become the standard.

But the dictionary just documents the rules. It doesn't make them. :)

Yeah, I'm guessing whoever wrote the summary mis-paraphrased the press release on Let's Encrypt's website, which says that it is now "trusted by all major root programs" (i.e., those by Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, etc., where it is decided which root certificates are distributed with their products). It could almost be a slip of the "tongue" since "root certificate" is a much more common phrase, but then they kept saying it...

Funny enough, the Apple MacBook-style charger was one pictured as problematic in the article, in this case due to low clearance if you were plugging it in, prongs-up, in an outlet very close to the floor. This was an odd example (as were a couple other pictures in the article: they were all duplex receptacles and plugging it into the other one would have helped in nearly every case), since the plug is not polarized (at least in the US) and there's no reason they couldn't have plugged it in the other direction, "upside-down" if you will.

Get a small mono laser printer for the occasional job at home. I'm not sure why the submitter seems to have forgotten that these exist--the "drying out" problem is unique to inkjets. There are several lasers under $100 USD (e.g., the Brother HL-L2300D) and even the starter toner will probably last years if you print so infrequently. (Though I'd probably opt for an MFD myself so I can get a scanner, too--comes in handy.)

Then, if you do want to print photos or fancy color, etc., use a service. Maybe even test a B&W draft at home first now that you can. This is what I did before I bought a color laser printer (again not too expensive, though if I printed more often the toner would probably get me).

I think that's the joke. ;-) (Party like it's 2002.)

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1200/

Returns where there isn't a problem with the item and you want to return it because you don't like it, no longer need it, ordered by mistake, etc.? Returns that are Amazon's/the seller's fault are comped, but other returns (most of which are allowed, subject to the item's/category's return policy) are not.

I don't know where you live, but I'm pretty sure the NEC in the US requires grounding both the antenna mast and the antenna itself, the latter usually done via a coax grouding block and both preferably (and I think it on some form ultimately must be) grounded to the house's service panel grounding. Not an electrician, so please don't take this as advice--but do know that yes, an outdoor antenna should, indeed, be grounded.

Yeah, third-party battery sellers (and most are third-party) on Amazon are a crapshoot and I don't trust them to be what they say anymore. Even if you're lucky to get something branded correctly, it's unlikely to be packaged correctly (e.g., pictured with a box but shipped in a bag and who knows who old). Battery Junction and other specialty stores have become my go-to shopping destinations for these, and they're usually cheaper unless your order is extremely small (Battery Junction does charge shipping). I have a lot of ZigBee sensors that use CR2 batteries but gave up on Amazon after a few sellers gave me CR123A cells instead.

I do buy AmazonBasics batteries on occasion. There's a reviewer, "NLee the Engineer" who's done extensive testing on their rechargeable ones (and a few other brands) and it's often the case that they're repackaged, previous-generation Eneloops or similar, which is good enough for me. The AmazonBasics alkaines are nice to have sometimes too, but I don't use many of those and it's often effectively cheaper to just throw in a couple alkalines from another store while I'm at it buying other batteries from them.

macOS doesn't even come with a built-in Paint alternative. Paint.NET is better in that it can do more, but it takes longer to load than Paint (which is more or less instant) and sometimes provides too much functionality when all you're trying to do is, for example, crop an image--Paint makes that very simple.

While that may be happening, I've also noticed Siri getting worse at some things. I use Siri a lot to create reminders since it's easier than typing it in and choosing a location, time, or other trigger for an alert. She's gotten better with things like 'Siri, add a reminder at 9 PM today to 'do laundry tomorrow morning,'" which she used to schedule for "tomorrow morning" even if I asked it separately: "Add a reminder at 9 PM today" / "OK, tell me what for" / "To do laundry tomorrow morning." Now she'll often fail to create reminders at all: "Hey Siri, add a reminder today at 9 PM to do laundry" / "I'm sorry, you don't have any reminders for "do laundry" today at 9 PM." Yeah, no kidding--that's why I asked you to make one.

Very. There are Administrative Templates available from Google and you can use them to create GPOs that either set computer/user policies (not changeable by user) or default user preferences (changeable). I've used the former to prevent installation of extensions and whatnot and the latter to configure homepages. Disabling developer mode is another thing you can do. I'm not sure if there's an item to disable user access to Settings (maybe you could blacklist chrome://settings?), but I think a better option for most cases would be to enable GPO items that will configure as policies specific settings you don't want the users to change.