Have more than 1 charger? Also the motel will have a charger. And your home. And the parking lot at your office. And the mall where you shop. It's much easier to have charging stations everywhere than gas stations.

Your solution doesn't work. Fear of others having guns stops nobody - there's already more guns than people on the US, so every shooter has to fear that people around them have guns. And police officers already act like everybody might have a gun and thus are very trigger happy. That cell phone could have been a gun. Shots fired in the school - everybody is armed? You are assuming everybody is exactly aware what's going on, nobody panics and everybody reacts like a well-trqined soldier with great control. In practice - shots fired, your well armed janitor pulls his gun and carefully approaches where the shots possibly came from, the principle arrives with his shiny new rifle and thinks the janitor is the shooter and starts firing. Soon the original shooter is confused why all the teachers and stuff shoot each other. Good guy with a gun - not that long ago there was a whole police force of good guys with guns who couldn't be bothered to enter the school building where the shootings happened. US has lots of guns and lots of gun deaths - what a weird coincidence.

Saw a YT video about BoP a couple days ago. Comment section was almost overrun with idiotic sexist remarks. Watched the movie yesterday - was a fun action spectacle. Great cast, well made. Good at what it is (I don't expect a great drama with philosophical depth from a superhero movie). Certainly better than the first suicide squad.

Yup - Linux would be overrun by malware if only it were more widely used - which is why the worlds server have been overrun by malware for years. Oh, wait ... In fact Unix/Linux had some architectural advantages over original Windows that made it more secure - or rather not as insecure as Windows. A lot of that got actually fixed for Windows over time and a well administered Windows system is no longer sure to be infected within 20 minutes. Security has many aspects. It's partially about the user - if the user doesn't care (or is too uninformed about best practices), the OS can only do so much to prevent infection. But insofar as unattended infection goes - Windows originally - during the bad old dos-based days and into the XP era - was extremely vulnerable. Security was simply not a design concern. Unix and, by inheritince, Linux systems had multi-user and security concerns from the beginning. Every system can eventually get compromised. Nothing is 100% secure. But that doesn't make all systems equally vulnerable. A bigger Linux desktop share (it dominates everything besides desktops already) will bring more securtiry challenges. But it likely wont't ever get as bad as during 9x/XP days.

As a fellow owner of a XPS 13 dev edition (9370) I'm curious what made it a disaster for you? (actually writing this on it, has been my main machine for a year)

Err - what? If you want your server to not have a downtime because you need to replace a failed HDD or fan then hot-plugging is very much an issue on servers. In fact it's an optional convenience on Desktops but a necessity on servers.

Sorry for the lack of newlines above - it's been a while since I posted on /. and overlooked that the editor is too stupid to handle newlines.

Addendum: Personally I dislike Chromebook keyboards. Just like Apple they think they can freely mess-up keyboard layouts.

Seconded. The Asus X201E/F201E (X or F depending on where they were released) are GREAT. I have bought several of them on ebay, put in a cheap 120 GB SSD and installed Ubuntu. Perfect Netbook. It's cheap, it's solid, very lightweight, very good screen (although glossy), decent keyboard, even has a USB 3 (plus 2 USB 2). Battery is good for 4 hours of work or 1 movie (or 2 episodes). The power adapter is fairly small and light too. They even look decent. Fairly good build quality too. So far none of the 6 I bought have failed. Asus no longer produces them but they are available via ebay. Asus originally even offered a variant with Linux pre-installed (that's how I got my first one) There's 2 hardware variants: 2GB RAM vs 4 GB RAM. For most stuff it doesn't matter. I get the 4 GB variants just so I can play with kvm, lxc and docker. For just browsing, email, office work the 2 GB version is sufficient (I had that on my first F201E). The dual core centrino CPU is not powerful - but does the job. The integrated graphics is obviously not modern gaming capable (and a request for "Netbook" involves not requiring this) - but to my surprise it does run Age of Wonders III (obviously not on highest settings). Civ 5 is usable - but with noticable lag (even on lowest settings). Stuff like Baldurs Gate obviously has such low requirements compared to modern games that it runs without problems on this Netbook. But don't bother attempting anything fps depending. Duh. ;-) I have given away several of them and everybody loves them. There is still demand for them on ebay. My guess is Asus discontinued these machines (and never offered successor machines) because they were a real alternatives for the much more expensive ultra book series for most everyday tasks. These netbooks are perfect for getting stuff done on planes, trains or in a Cafe. That's what I originally got the first one for. But I used them far beyond my original plans. Linux has 0 problems with these Netbooks. Full disclosure: Every nth wake-up from sleep (I never turn them off, just close the cover and put it into standby mode) wifi doesn't wake up properly - that's the only time I bother to cold boot - half a minute later it's up again. If you need more than 4 hours of battery - just get 2 of these. :-)