I remember a documentary from decades ago (1970s or 1980s) where they made the point that, at that time anyway, middle-class people had an equivalent standard of living in many ways to what turn-of-the-20th-century rich people accomplished only with a fleet of servants, simply because of technological advancement - we now had microwaves, toasters, instant TV dinners, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, automobiles, etc. etc.

This is mainly intended as a tangent, and is not intended to be relevant to the current discussion.

Especially since January 2025...

I've got the keys to their Rivian!

Well, it is definitely a politically-loaded question... but it doesn't seem totally unreasonable, at least based on population percentages. They said "middle class" not "rich"; this is for a family of three, which nowadays means two incomes in the majority of cases; and $133K was chosen as the very bottom of the "upper middle class" window.

Pew is considered rather less politically biased than the Wall Street Journal; but in 2022 they gave the following broad-brush definitions for a family of three:

Lower-income (28% of US population): Under $56,600 per year
Middle-income (52% of US population): Between $56,600 and $169,800 per year
Upper-income (19% of US population): Above $169,800 per year

There are certainly a lot of political side questions one could ask, like - should we really consider it to be "middle-class" if a person can't afford to buy a house?

Another YouTube "epic reaction" video! I can't wait to see how this three-plus-hours-long one differs from the 37 billion other epic reaction videos!

Yeah, I was gonna say... it's probably not Gnome itself that's the memory hog, it's almost certainly the demands from the web browser and / or email client. *

We have a computing lab which runs Linux + Gnome. Students are in the GUI almost all the time, but they're mostly running various engineering applications - they're not checking their personal email, and typically they're not randomly browsing the web. If there's only one or two students on there (remote access does get used a lot), htop typically shows < 2GB of memory usage - and almost no load.

* Not that I particularly want to defend Gnome; I think, design-wise, it's become a rather user-hostile window manager.

I think I understand why he never got anywhere with these. And no, it wasn't because of the web...

Apparently Waze exists for the sole purpose of avoiding speed traps.

I never knew that... guess I've been using it wrong all these years. I use it to minimize the time I spend on my daily commute.

I mean, that's what people said about Michelle Obama when she proposed a lot of this stuff a decade or more ago...

"Skyrocketed" above 5%, you say?

"As this shocking graph indicates..." (sorry, I couldn't find a larger image)

Their toilet isn't working.

I was thinking along the same lines...

I'd say let the CEO do it. And when it goes south - which it will - make sure the CEO is held personally accountable for any misdiagnoses and deaths.

Wow, some pythonistas are sure touchy about their dog-slow language...

An oldie but goodie.

(Pulling my pants up so the belt is at chest level)

Back in my day, when my daughter was a kid, it was easier to keep tabs on what she was doing and who she was talking to. There were no iPads or smartphones. Our single computer was in the living room, so it was easy to keep tabs on what she was doing. ...Although half the time she wanted me helping her with whatever she was doing anyway. I got pretty good at those Disney games like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.