An Intel NUC is smaller, faster, and the SSD is replaceable or upgradeable. I have one with a 1tb SATA SSD and a 256GB M.2 SSD.

I'm curious about this 'run of the mill 12 year old amd64 desktop PC'...? At our company we use FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a number of secure server services and many of us run it on desktops to interact with those systems and we've never had a system it wouldn't install on with the vanilla kernel. A lot of people use pfSense on plenty of hardware configurations and the issues typically stem from oddball or cutting edge new hardware products.

Hmm I really have to scratch my brain on this one... I do recall 'moonlighting' as a term but I don't think it was popular outside of the TV show and people seemed to use it more to describe a night time job they didn't want others to know about like working at a gas station or fast food. I think "side job" was popular back then too but more connoted to a job that might at some point surpass one's primary job. Or maybe not...? Some people did say 'night job' too. Heck, now that I think of it maybe no one actually said "part time job" back then and that was more of a late 90's / 2000's term.

Non-millennial requiring a bit of an education here: for the past couple years I've been hearing younger people in their 20's and early 30's refer to a part time job as a 'side hustle'; Why the name change? Or is it not a name change and they've simply given a term for a job that isn't receiving the same participation level, the same effort as a part time job would? When I think of 'side hustle' I think of some dude dealing adirol on the side for some extra cash.

Or perhaps it's the same thing but millennials renamed it so they weren't hysterically laughed at for referring to this era as the "era of the part time job", something everyone seemed to have back in the 80's after their day job.

Initially I was excited to hear that Microsoft was finally acknowledging their search engine was absolute garbage... until I continued reading to discover they plan to make it even worse.

lol - https://gadgets.ndtv.com/lapto... - " HP Leads Global Laptop Market, Apple Takes Fourth Place" I think you meant Apple, not HP.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/... - "Market intelligence provider IDC has released a report detailing the state of the worldwide traditional PC market for the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18). According to the data, both Dell and HP have seen increases in market share in comparison to the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17).

Gramps? Why do you assume he's old? Because he has the motivation to take equipment apart and repair it? I realize millennials get a bad rap for their lack of motivation, work ethic, and self-repair but I hear good things about Generation Z so it's possible he's a young one with a parent that owns a brand new HP ProBook, HP EliteBook, or similar brand / series of notebook which doesn't follow Apple's 'let's solder everything on board and charge $700 to replace a solid state drive because it's soldered onto the mainboard".

Back when I co-owned an IT service business our most prominent calls were residential calls resolving issues created by Google enabling scammers to bilk elderly people out of money who were searching for support for D-Link support, Microsoft support, Apple support, etc., etc.. You name it, there's a fake support site for it.

Every few months I would feedback Google's scam ads and they never did anything about them. Why? Because Googling has happily and knowingly enabling scam artists.

We had one senior on a fixed income that was "Paying Microsoft" $500 a month because she used Google to find them to help her with an email problem and they alleged she needed to pay them to keep her computer safe from viruses. Sickening. I don't know why Google wasn't hanged for this behaviour ages ago, the first time they said they were going to fix this problem. I'm sure I commented on a number of these same articles in the past on Slashdot.

This is msmash's MO, post about first world millennial issues, SJWism, UBB, feminism, etc., things that have no or minimal relation to tech with little to no quality assurance. Typically when you see a vacuous Slashdot post, msmash is responsible.

It's not an acceptable compromise for those buying the vehicles, I certainly wouldn't want a nagging vehicle when I already have a wife.

One person linking to an explanation with a brief summary makes sense, similar to informative posts by other posters.

I recall reading about this topic roughly 20 years ago in an issue of National Geographic except then it was reported as a natural occurrence rather than man made climate change. They were noting temperature changes as far back as the 70's and speculated that the warm air that produced what felt like unnatural weather would shift to a different area of Europe at some point.

No, it's not a moral virtue. It's typically an adult job requirement.

But I feel you also missed my point, it's also a matter of choice. Considering that the circadian rhythm of humans isn't dictated by time zones, a person can choose to adjust work habits to 'reset' their circadian rhythm to match a responsible pattern that's inline with a standard work day. If a person can't be creative during a standard work day, an intelligent employer would simply seek out an employee that can be creative during the standard work day.

Looking at it from the point of view of an (intelligent) employer, I would want to hire employees that were most productive during regular work hours.

Sure, it takes a few years to shake off the juvenile need to sleep in after years of staying up late partying, or gaming, or binge watching TV shows, but at some point you become an adult with a family and you want to be in sync with the rest of the world. I'm now at the age where I've been alive longer in sync with circadian rhythm than the amount of years I've been out of sync, and I expect to be around for more years in sync with circadian rhythm. With that being said I expect that the majority of adults are biologically in tune with each other which is why most work environments I've been to have productivity peaks amongst most employees at the same time (mid morning and a half hour after lunch).

... no, we went to Jumbo Video here in Canada to pay $4.99 for a movie rental and maybe if we were lucky we could get three for $10. So basically one family movie night cost the same as a Netflix subscription cost today.