>Win7 still has more functionality, as a desktop operating system, than Win8.1 and Win10.

How so?

Who would have thought that people stealing content do not want to pay money?

But that's the whole point. No nasty stuff can happen because every program is sandboxed.

Also, it seems ubuntu needs to restart after every batch of updates nowadays. I thought this was only a problem with windows.

HSPA+ was supported in 5 year old (compared to Nexus 4) Nokia dumb phones. I doubt they disabled that because it was quite standard and commonplace when Nexus 4 was released.

I've noticed this. Others come and go, but Microsoft usually supports their products to an insane limit. One example is hotmail. The other is WinXP. The other thing they do is they deteriorate/ignore their product so much that most people leave of their volition (MSN messenger).

I don't even give a shit about the UI if it runs bad. Once everything is perfect, they can change the UI all they want, without affecting performance and functionality.

I'm glad someone said it. If you follow C++14 standards, there is no reason for Rust to exist anymore.

Multi-process is being treated like an optional "maybe we'll include this at some point if it is perfect" feature. Instead they should release a beta with multi-process (main Firefox beta, not electrolysis). People will use it and file bugs and then those bugs can be squashed. Within 6 months Firefox will be a nice multi-process browser.

Those who do not follow meritocracy deserve to watch their browser die a slow death.

Ditto. Really weird.

840 is probably the most reliable laptop I've used, after the Thinkpad T430.

Surprisingly, other manufacturers also faced the same problems and came up with an easy, effective and cheaper solution: just build protections against shorts/over-current/over-voltage in your ports, upto a reasonable safety margin. So now my 10 year old HP desktop will show a discreet notification "The USB device on port 2 was drawing too much current and has been shut down." while the newest Macbook fries itself. Brilliant.

>when Benson connected it to a Pixel C to charge some device (Nexus Phone?), the Pixel was destroyed

This just indicates the poor quality of the Pixel's USB implementation. In this case, even an external power supply wasn't involved. Just a fucked up cable. So essentially, the Pixel fried itself just because of some shorted pins. I guess companies will keep making sub-standard products as long as idiots keep buying.

This is it. USB 1 and 2 have had overcurrent protection for a decade. These frying incidents are probably on cheap, consumer-grade laptops that skimped on the protections.

Hahahahahahahh! Huge and 2.8MB do not go together in the same sentence! These are phones with gigabytes of RAM. Gigabytes of super-fast flash storage, and screaming octa-core CPUs. And system crash due to a puny 2.8 megabytes table?! Is this a fucking joke?

Why the fuck would you buy a signature edition laptop and proceed to install Mcafee on it, thereby ruining it completely? One can only be so stupid, right? Right??