I would be more worried about the loss of ability to read the data format than anything else.
A simple example is in the 1992 Nickelodeon Time Capsule, to be opened in 2042, they put in a VHS copy of Home Alone. Now, who would have a VHS machine today, let alone in 2042? With this example, that's assuming that the tape itself didn't disintegrate, demagnetize, or get eaten by mold, as we're talking about a new medium for the data.
I'm in the middle of archiving all my parents files from the 80s and 90s. They mostly used an obscure program that doesn't have file filters in modern day OpenOffice/LibreOffice. If anyone is interested, it was Symantec's Q&A Write and I found a way using a trial copy of StarOffice, which did have proprietary file filters for it.
Who assumes in 10,000 years, any data will still be formatted the same way?

You can run LightBurn natively. They made old versions that ran on Linux, the latest was released in March 2025. Version 1.7.08.
You may need to work with their license portal though to get it working.

Linux AppImage - https://release.lightburnsoftw...
Linux .Run file - https://release.lightburnsoftw...
Linux 7zip file - https://release.lightburnsoftw...

Their License Management Portal documentation - https://docs.lightburnsoftware...

I keep wanting this for a long time, as it makes sense for Fleets, Buses, delivery vans and the like, but until everything is standardized, similarly to the 12 volt lead acid battery, to be the same shape, size, voltage, etc, and make it easy to replace, it'll be a pipe dream. Right now it's the wild west, with differing standard for charging port design, including where the port is placed on the car, let alone pack design. I don't see it happening until we are forced to by a governmental standards body.

A Thinkpad T440 with a USB Mouse connected.
The Thinkpad has a middle button on the touchpad, which is hard to tell until you encounter Middle Click Paste.

One of the deciding factors for loading Linux Mint or reinstalling Windows 11 on my niece's first computer, will be Middle Click Paste.

It will only confuse her, esp given how some laptops have a middle button on the trackpad and I worry about her ability to regulate her pressure on the scroll wheel.

I haven't found a simple way to turn it off entirely, even the option on the DE doesn't change the applications, as it's per application changes. I could disable the middle button entirely in the command line, but that doesn't work for devices that are constantly being unplugged and replugged in - thinking of a USB mouse on a laptop. Requiring me to install a daemon is out of my depth, and tbh shouldn't be necessary.

I hate the idea that this hasn't been fixed for normal users, that there is so much resistance against fixing it - middle click paste is fine for superusers from the early 90s, before scroll wheels were a thing, but normal users hate it.

As I understand it, both Soccer and Football were used to describe the same sport when it was first came out. Football was more of a generic term for a bunch of different sports, including Rugby Football and Soccer/Football.

What we now know as Soccer/Football was known as Association Football, shortened to Assoc Football or Assocer Football. So Assocer Football got shortened to Soccer.

American Football continued to tradition of using Football as a generic term for a bunch of sports and modeled their sport after both Rugby and Soccer/Football.

As the the sports became more well played in their respected lands, they each took the more recognized Football moniker as their own, leaving the lesser known names, such as Soccer and American Football, for the names for the less played versions. As the world became smaller and more interconnected, we now have these arguments over who actually has the right to call themselves Football.

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The resonator is not actually on the chip itself, but is a separate component on the board. Same with the crystal oscillator. You can replace it, much like a recap, to restore and preserve a retro game system.

I am happy when they give me a QR code for payment, especially if I have an account with their service (it's usually Toast) but can't understand why they would ever give QR codes for Menus. Even the Payment QR codes are optional.

Maybe that's the biggest differentiator, if things are optional. If I see a QR code for extra info on their printed menu, for things like a calorie calculator or pictures that they didn't have room on the menu for, then it would be nice. But anything where it's one or the other will always make it a worst experience.

It's simple - Where would you rather watch something?
At home where you can pause it for pee breaks and eat great food, on the streaming subscription you're already subscribted to?
Or would you rather go out to a movie theater where you can't pause it, anything you eat will be more unhealthy and taste worst, you'll likely strain your neck to see things, have to deal with other people being rude and talking, risk covid/cold/flu and pay $$ for that experience.
Simply, once they started having same-day releases for both streaming and theater, most people looked at it and thought about the cost/benefit of theater vs at home.

Taiwan is the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of World Geopolitics. It both is and isn't part of China. All I know is that it's "disputed" and is THE major technology hub. But, when discussing "banning computer chips from China" you are exclusively talking about Taiwan, and maybe Hong Kong.
Is TSMC a Chinese company? I honestly don't know anymore.

So they will be looking for chips made by a chinese company but the factories are in another country, like Vietnam.

It stands for World Wide Developers Conference, which is Apple's developer focused conference.
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A big hit to the legitimacy was the wacky accounting that's used to account for damages. There's a 2012 TED talk about it where it's explained that the music industry says it's $150,000 per song/per copy. So an old iPod Classic holds 8 billion dollars worth of piracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In my head, the plan is to phase out all ICE cars, make everything Hybrid and Electric. And as the infrastructure builds out, then move from Hybrid to Electric.
Right now, the Infrastructure just isn't there yet.
We haven't even yet completely agreed on a single plug - thanks Tesla for being the holdout, even Nissan is getting rid of CHAdeMO and going with the standard J1772 plug. We haven't yet figured out whether to charge for time or KWh. We haven't figured out what to do if you live in an apartment. We haven't yet put in destination chargers that isn't a hotel, such as a resturant, mall or workplace. Hell, we are only now starting to decarbonize the grid.
There's a lot to figure out, and we need much more time than everyone projects. Everyone focuses on what the climate change models project, and not what's actually realistic.

Chromebooks are a Linux Distro, but MacOS is a seperate OS that's based on BSD. I mean by separate OS, that it's not just a distro of BSD.
Long story short, current MacOS is made out of NeXTSTEP, which was built using BSD components for the foundation, and built/rebuilt a LOT of their own code on top of it, both in the beginning and over the years.
You might be confusing Linux and BSD. Both are Posix compliant and free (both as in speech and as in beer), but are definitely different.