Technology has gotten so good I don't need to spend anywhere near $1000.00 on a phone and a computer combined.

"Slashdot is only making backups of stories from other sites."

But, if Slashdot doesn't publish the story again within two weeks, the story goes away.

Cherry picked data can prove the moon is made of green cheese: arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/experts-headline-grabbing-editorial-on-saturated-fats-bizarre-misleading

What I think may be an improvement may look to someone else to be a bad thing.

My response is about the dissonance between the plural implication of "they" vs the obvious singular nature of an individual named Carley. When I read that sentence my mind assumes there is a typo since there is a conflict in the one vs more than one reference.

To bring in views of gender has nothing to do with my topic. I am concerned that it becomes more difficult to read with clarity and meaning. The construction is clunky, ambiguous, and dissonant. Full stop.

In the linked article, the example given, “Carly cleared their voice and spoke”, feels awkward and ambiguous. I never thought I'd prefer usages like "his or her", but compared to the example, I do.

Kill off all my elderly brain cells:

a) Pretty much nothing left in my head.

b) Nobody will notice any change.

Images of fine art in museums get deleted, but....

"and is viewed by many as complicated and obscure"

(OP describes Windows by accident.)

I have a really different idea. How about people learn to drive? And if they are going to drive a car with (just for example) 400 hp, get real training in the basics - like how and when NOT to mash the pedal to the floor. More power, more training... Want to use 65mph roads? Get appropriate training - including watching dash cam videos of how bad things can get. Pretty bad.

I know, it sounds vaguely socialist or authoritarian or something. But I put on up to 60,000 miles a year and I have to suspect there's some way to get people to learn to be more serious and more skilled about driving than they are. Frankly the average driver is unskilled.

"there will be no "Linux singularity", just a slow Microsoft slide to irrelevance"

Right but wrong, simply because it has already begun.

"but windows and mac can work for everybody very easily"

Until they don't. And then Linux saved my sanity.

"On the desktop it's for people that enjoy tinkering with computers rather than getting work done."

Not my experience. I'm a plain vanilla Linux user who wants nothing to do with tinkering. I just want the computer to work. Windows kept making problems and Linux fixed them.

I need more sleep.

Whether it's called backup or archive, their system was inadequate. Multiple full copies taken at various points in time - of all data - should be in more than one offsite location.