Only if your time is worthless.

...don't fix it!

I could have a 20 inch waist and it wouldn't make my hip bones any smaller. And if you think having a 32-inch waist means I must be heating unhealthily or to excess, I can recommend a couple good clinics for eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

Did you miss where I said "narrowest"? And did you misread "hit both sides" as "squeezed in"?

I don't have trouble either. My point was that sometimes it comes close.

I (male) have a 32-inch waist, well below the 50th percentile. I still hit both sides on the narrowest airplane seats. Should I have my hip bones ground down?

What, you don't intuitively know what Thunar, Brasero, and Synaptic do?

AND.... thanks to the US Govt, that may not be available much longer, either.

Not true. You can deactive your Threads account which will stop all new interactions, set your account to private, uninstall the app, etc. You can't cancel your Threads account without simultaneously canceling your Instagram account as they are one and the same thing. They are currently working on a way to separate them.

We have to balance the fact that Debian is easier and better in a lot of ways, with the fact that one of the major software components in our product is only officially supported on RHEL and Ubuntu. Our need for support from that vendor has been small enough that we should be OK.

Plus, they've doubled down on it saying that from 24.04, even the core OS will be packaged as snaps.

My own use case is a turnkey system on an air-gapped network. We manually maintain a set of APT repositories on that network. But unless I'm mistaken, you can't just stand up your own snap repository the same way. We probably will end up going to Debian.

...to the list of incorrect assumptions programmers make about dates, ages, etc.

What's everyone's favorite podcatcher these days?

No, I don't want to go back to the bad old days. It's embarrassing to look back on my high school days and the things my friends and I were certain about that turned out to be completely untrue (e.g., what "new wave" music really was, how to pronounce "Puma" [shoes], all the different things we thought [Oldsmobile] 442 meant). Multiple times a day, a five-second Google search either saves me a trip to the library, or shows that I need to make a trip to the library. I've saved thousands of dollars in repair bills or replacement of things around my house because I could download service manuals and watch instructional YouTube videos.

I deal with the shite parts of the Internet the way I've dealt with the shite parts of cable TV for the last 40 years--turn them off. My kids grew up with the Internet never turned off, so it's been up to my wife and me to teach them how to do that.

I can use a screwdriver for its intended purpose, or to open paint cans, or to hold a door open. Just because I can also use it to poke my own eye out doesn't mean I have to. The internet is the same way.

ISTR that like a decade ago, there was a lot of work being done on building hardware that could run at 70C or more, so that cooling was nothing more than bringing fresh air from the outside, blowing it through the room, then exhausting it back outside. One use case for this was small portable modular data centers built inside shipping containers.

The big problem with phones, even unlocked ones, is that even though they are capable of transmitting and receiving on lots of 4G and 5G bands, and you can program SIMs to tell the phone to use those bands, often times the phone is hard-coded to only use a specific set of band combinations. Even after you've mastered the Black Art of programming SIMs (and getting your HSS/PCRF equivalent to validate them), it can often be trial-and-error to find a band pair that works with your phone.