'astronaut' isn't even really English - it was coined from two ancient Greek words meaning star-sailor. c.f. Argonaut.

a perfectly cromulent English word - 'sky-walker'.

A colleague of mine went to the hardware store and bought a pair of industrial ear-muffs.

Open-plan absolutely is a drain on productivity. Casual gossip, overhearing others on calls.

Work recently asked us to return to the office 3 days a week for 'collaboration', which is codeword for dump a bunch of stuff that is someone else's responsibility on me. Just let me do my fucking work in peace. Oh and the commute 2 hours a day on public transport...

As a salaryman in my 50s, I am tired of the bulltish.

I'm not sure if it is still true but for some time, IIRC, laptops used a PS/2 interface for the touchpad.

This just sounds like rebranding the Replicant project?

Unless FSF are planning on partnering with hardware projects such Purism, Pinephone or Fairphone, I can't see them making any headway over what postmarketOS has achieved.

The cream cheese?

Thanks, Internet. You've made me crave a smoked salmon bagel.

Candles were traditionally made from animal fat.

Does that qualify them as renewable? (cue the vegans...)

The only touchscreen laptop Apple ever produced was the eMate 300.

Jobs apparently wasn't a fan.

Not McDonalds but a decade ago KFC did market a Bluetooth keyboard.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/kfc...

Our east coast grid is transitioning away from coal power stations build in the 1970s through state governments subsidizing private industry via "auctions" to invest in wind and solar farms etc.

The Liberal-National opposition proposed overturning a moratorium on nuclear power. Our 2025 federal election was held and with their nuclear policy they ended up with fewer seats in parliament.

Voters were unconvinced.

Hi from Australia.

I live a modest lifestyle in an apartment and I have given up on ever owning my own house (in excess of $AU1 million in any location you'd want to buy in suburban Melbourne; the suburb I grew up in is worth double that).

So as a Gen-X, I am salary sacrificing into superannuation for a rainy day in 15-20 years' time because politicians of generation Alpha will have rolled back the pension due to strains from the previous generation. I have no trust in Canberra not to do a rug pull.

Because to get any real world done (TM), one has to plug in a proper USB keyboard with a numpad.

For the same reason, I fucking hate the stupid laptop work gave me that I plug a real keyboard into either in the office or WfH.

It's a toy.

China this, China that.

The proles are saying that we've always been at war with EastAsia.

Build a bridge and defeat the common enemy, Eurasia.

Form over function.

Joke company.

Something in the ad that defames Steampunk Mickey?

You're enjoying a calm Sunday afternoon with your date on a rowboat and a maniacal mouse hurtles down the river causing you to panic and break a fingernail. Lawyer up, rodent! call Captain Morgan on 1-800-...

So the Morgans are deliberately hoping they lose so that the judgement will include a settlement allowing them to use the public domain for a fraction of what it would it might have cost if Disney had sued them and won?