The 'chose to be born there' bit is pretty indicative that slycyberguy is deadpanning the role of an ignorant American. The sad part is that people aren't getting it.

Funny, the only movie I've been to in about the past five years was Lego Batman, a film where you'd expect to have most of those annoyances you list. Only there weren't any of them. It's so weird, it almost makes me want to shell out money to go see another movie soon.

A quick check shows /. and m.facebook up in Chrome consume north of 300MB. Considering Average User tends to visit sites loaded with ad content and Flashy McFlashfuck, that adds up really quickly. Of course being vigilant with open tabs helps, and making sure you go to mobile sites, but it can easily get out of control.

Funny, Win10 runs like a nuclear-powered ninja on my SP1. Maybe your computer just sucks.

I've been running Ubuntu 16.04 on an SP1 with zero wifi issues such as I've heard going on with the Marvell chipset. I figured it was because the SP1 was old enough that everything had been sorted out by now.

TIL arglebargle_xiv is everybody, and nobody uses an Apple device.

Oh look, Slashdot still amazes me with the witty back-and-forth in the comments threads.

Veritical, vertical, obviously I meant vertical.

The Unix-based OS has to have some kind of fruit logo or it's no good, obviously. And 120 missing pixels from the horizontal? Ho. Lee. Fuck.

Terminology is everything.

But kids should only believe Republican-approved answers.

You mean my phone will morph into a full-sized laptop with the wholesale usability shift it entails? Fucking awesome.

Well, this certainly disqualifies Ubuntu as a lean OS.

Funnily enough, I have a wrist tattoo but on the opposite one I wear a watch on, for that exact reason -- at the time I got it, I usually wore a watch. =) No sense in covering it up.

Actually, they're a great idea, they'll stop you from using an iWatch.

Gosh, I love the back and forth in this thread.
'People who get tattoos are sheeple!'
'No, people who like Apple stuff are sheeple!'
'No, you are!'
'No, you are!'