Dogs also tend have smaller brains than wolves the same size.

I actually paid the 1$/year for it, and it gave me immense pleasure doing so.
Firstly because they've made a good product and I believe they deserve to be rewarded, and secondly (and most importantly), it makes their monetisation clear as day, so it's less likely they will turn around and sell all of my data to the highest bidder, or start doing annoying stuff like pushing ads into my device.

That is, until they got bought by one of the worst companies in the tech world.

The you're a lucky man. I wish I could just up and drop What's App like that, just like I wish I could do that to Facebook.
Unfortunately, the same network effects keep me from cancelling my FB account will now do the same for my WA one.

The problem isn't the technology. Replicating what's app is relatively simple as can be seen by the fact that Messenger apps are dime-a-dozen.
Getting that critical mass of users is what's hard to do, and why FB paid so much.

One of my favourites lately has been RimWorld.
A sort of colony simulator where your characters have to survive the harsh environment of the planet where they crash-landed, as well as the occasional raiding parties.
It's similar to Prison Architect (another indie), which is also nice, but I prefer the sci-fi aspect of RimWorld.
The game is currently in alpha, but it already runs quite well, and has a Linux version.

I've also been playing Faster Than Light and Kerbal Space Program which need no introduction here, and Gunpoint which despite not being that new anymore, is a very compelling 2d platformer.
Unfortunately, Gunpoint only has a Windows version and runs like a dog on Wine (at least it did for me, YMMV).

On Android I've been playing The Room 2, which was released just a few days ago.
That one's also pretty good, but I think I enjoyed the first installation more. Not sure if it was because of the novelty at the time, but I feel like the first had more depth to each table.

AAA games are becoming less and less interesting for me. It feels like the really innovative game making is being done by indies. Big companies seem to be interested only in sure investments, so they keep on pushing the same stuff year after year.
Not that that's completely bad. I did enjoy the hell out of GTA V, but it does follow a formula.

I tried being on unstable for a while, and it's actually pretty stable. In fact, I have no complaints at all besides the too-frequent updates, which was what eventually drove me back to testing.

That, and the fact that things in Gnome seemingly kept breaking, only to find out later that it was intentional and part of Gnome's strategy to slowly make their desktop experience less and less usable.
I fixed that by moving to KDE, which improved considerably since I last tried it years ago.

Almost there, now we just need to mention the company and product names as often as possible, and of course use the trademark symbols otherwise it won't look corporate enough:

You have to love a product description which reads like it was written by a human rather than a marketing drone.
Or maybe I'm so jaded by modern marketing drone speak that even a pitch from a few years ago sounds human by comparison.

By polling all processing power in the same place you can optimize a number of things compared to distributed clients:
- It's more efficient to cool a huge data centre than a number of small consoles which have other design constraints such as low price, low noise and small footprint;
- You can build the data centre where energy is cheaper;
- You can more easily upgrade the server hardware when newer, more efficient technology appears;
- As someone else noted, you'll have many clients requesting the same calculations (say, in multiplayer games), which only need to be done once by the server.

Hopefully those combined savings put together can offset the extra power requirements for all the added bandwidth being generated.

I also moved from Ubuntu to Debian.
For me it was that I prefer Gnome Shell to Unity.

I did try installing Gnome on Ubuntu, and then the Ubuntu Gnome variation (or whatever it's called), but in both cases I had the impression that the integration was a bit wonky. You'd have a mixture of Ubuntu and Gnome apps which supposedly did the same things, but in subtle different ways. Like the "Online Accounts" thing in the settings.

Anyway, I decided to try Debian and was surprised to see that not only Gnome had a much saner default configuration, but the system itself was also a lot more stable - I've always had small problems with my laptop under Linux, which I consider my own fault - I'm never buying Sony again!

What's the point of wearable technology if you put it away whenever you're not using it?

That'd be like saying "if you're not telling the time, why would you wear a watch on your wrist?"

I'd be happy if I could at least get a system which drives itself on highways. The majority of time spent in my vehicle on long trips is on the highway anyway - if I could drop the wheel during that time to do something more meaningful, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

I've recently installed a cruise control system on my car, and it was one of the best purchases I've ever done. Worrying about the speed you're driving seems to be a small matter until you try cruise control. Then you realise how much more relaxing driving long distances is.

The one thing I wish is that the cruise control know the distance to the car in front of me, and automatically adjust my speed if the other guy is going slower, to keep a safe distance. This type of technology is already common on expensive cars for automatic braking.

Then I guess the next step would be if it would "see" the lane lines and adjust the steering wheel to always keep me in the centre of the lane. The sensors for this also exist already on expensive cars to warn you when you start drifting outside of the road.

This is the path I always envisioned towards eventual fully autonomous cars, but it seems most projects I've seen are trying to go for the full monty. I wonder if there's a reason for that.

I have an easier and cheaper fix:
1. Don't buy the XBox One

I've seen this workflow enforced on git-only environments by making the "master" git repository reject merges.
This forces developers to rebase their changes on the top of the master branch before pushing and at least for us it was working quite well.

I'm not familiar with git-svn, but I thought it was a kind of stop-gap solution for SVN devs who didn't want to switch with the project.
I'd be wary of using two source control mechanisms simultaneously as a permanent solution.

Care to expand on that?
I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian and am finding the font rendering to be a bit worse in the Debian configuration (unlike everything else - Debian is just great, and stable as a rock).
I've tried changing the system fonts and while it helped a bit, there are still things that bother me.

Perhaps nobody wants to take up that debate because you obviously have a political axe to grind.
I have my own opinion on the use of tax dollars here, but I don't want to get into it because I know it'll turn into a never ending discussion on politics.

I have better stuff to do with my time, and I do not live or pay taxes in the US, so I don't think my opinion is too relevant here anyway.

But good luck finding someone who will debate you though.

Tesla Motors is a publicly traded company. You're welcome to go over their numbers if you'd like.
Unless you want to claim they're lying in their financial reports, in which case you can report them to the proper authorities.