About the only thing I'll miss are those flash videos that were all the rage (like "George Washington", "End of the world", "The Ultimate Showdown", "Badger Badger Badger"). They are available on Youtube, but they're at such a low quality/bitrate that it makes me miss the original flash versions.

No, we had to save the best for last.

Other than for live sports, I'm not sure why anyone would actually want to watch the garbage that gets pumped out by these studios. Secondly, I don't know why people pay for services that show them ads. If I'm paying for it, I don't want ads! That's the best thing about Youtube Premium.

Just built a new home in Canada (Ontario), new for code in 2018 was that a conduit be installed from the electrical panel to the garage for a future electric car charger. No infrastructure other than the conduit and junction box were installed, but it's nice to have it for some point in the future.

I cringe every time Firefox or Chromium recompile, because I know it's going to be hours before it's done.

Yep, very true, but if 1.2.4 *isn't* compatible, you'd need to keep upping the versions, and that's way too much manual intervention. I might as well to to LFS if I wanted that.

I've been using Gentoo for many years, and temporarily switched to Funtoo on my personal laptop. I've since graduated and don't spent nearly as much time on my laptop as I used to, which these days mainly runs MythTV.

I don't think I'd continue with Gentoo - it takes too much time to sort through updates, figure out which packages need to be masked, etc. I'd rather go to Arch next, although I was considering Debian unstable.

Recently, my video card stopped being supported by the newest nvidia graphics, and the newer versions of Xorg weren't compatible. My masked list is growing as more and more packages have deeper dependancies on newer versions of Xorg. I always figured Portage should honour my masked packages and keep everything at the latest version without stepping on my masked packages, but it wants me to do everything manually. If package 1.2.3 is incompatible with my Xorg, I'll mask 1.2.3 and newer. There is a slight chance, however, that 1.2.4 will be compatible, but it doesn't matter, since Portage made me masked out 1.2.3 and newer, I'll never even know.

Instead of fixing a vulnerability or weakness in wifi, lets prevent drones from flying nearby. Because you can totally trust ALL your employees not to plug in a router to perform a similar attack.

Blackberry actually had this right. Apps requested permission when you installed them, you could either allow, deny, or ask it to prompt you first. It would be really awesome if Android had that feature too.

'iOS 7 introduced a much more complex physical language while stripping out many of the visual cues that developers had relied on to instruct users.

Like what? I don't have an iOS device, so I'm not really sure what they're talking about.

In Canada we have interac e-Transfers - which you email a link to somebody and they click on it and log into their bank account and it deposits the money into their account.

With these 'fly-bys' and that 'morse code', how else would we know how to correctly parse things?

What's wrong with Cape Breton? It's a lovely place to visit (says the mainlander)

And then you have Apple Maps, yikes.

I think they meant it was dirty because of all the mining you have to do to get the uranium out of the ground.