Just don't commit anything you haven't reviewed or don't thoroughly understand.

Veritasium did a video recently about the ASML technology. It is truly amazing. The technology and the video. It's nearly an hour long but totally worth the watch.

I bought a couple cheap laptops for my kids and they came locked in S-Mode. The oobe\bypassnro trick doesn't work in S-Mode, nor does opening a command prompt. Disable secure boot in BIOS, boot to the recovery partition. Go into repair, open regedit, load the main hive, flip a bit, update the hive, and reboot. Then it works. Again, I don't think the typical laptop buyer is going to be able to do that.

They're continuously making it harder to set up a new Windows computer without a Microsoft account. At this point, someone without extensive experience and patience would be unable to do it.

Propecia is a lower dose of the drug they use to neuter sex offenders. It can crush libido and cause erectile disfunction and depression, and the affects are permanent for a lot of people even after they stop taking it.

Yeah, this is slashdot and we're all old and already bald. So tell your kids not to mess with their hormones.

I had to read whole books in school in the 80's and early 90's. I absolutely hated it. Then I discovered that I could go to the library and pick out a book that I wanted to read, and that changed everything.

So maybe just let kids pick out a book and read it. Any book. They might like it. The only thing worse than reading excerpts from Of Mice and Men is reading the whole damn thing.

Only 15% of their funding came from the federal government. This sounds more like a political statement than financial insolvency.

FBI caught the Jan 6 pipe bomber from a flock camera and some credit card swipes from five years ago.

That's scary.

People don't tip if it's after the purchase/delivery?

I just lost some of the shred of faith I had left in humanity.

Q: What do you call a doctor who graduated bottom of their class?

A: Doctor.

Their app updated and I could no longer use it without logging in. I do not want a Zillow account. Their app became irrelevant to me, and there's nothing special about their web site.

I read this article about Paraquat, a weed killer widely used in the U.S., but banned in many other countries, that has a link to Parkinson's. Sounds like some seriously nasty stuff. So if you farm, live near a farm, or... eat, you're exposed to this.

I lived in a neighborhood built on abandoned military base and my taps were hooked up to the old base wells, which were contaminated with TCE from the army firefighters practicing putting out fires. My family drank that stuff for a decade and I found out after we moved away. Municipal water systems are required to publish water analysis. It's worth looking up.

The day will come when a TV (or dishwasher or refrigerator) will not function at all without an internet connection.

Is it true that sperm donors make money hand over fist?

If for some reason we actually run out of space on Earth, a floating raft on the ocean would be much easier than Mars or Venus or the moon.

There is no logical reason for humans to ever live on another planet.