... we can conclude that peoples of color absorb much more heat and contribute more to atmospheric warming than, say, white people. So we can reduce global warming by reducing the number of black people and increasing the number of white people. (I AM BEING FACETIOUS!!!! I AM NOT BEING RACIST!!! HONEST!!!)

* Iron bars can now be normal dungeon dressing. Before, they had only been seen in very few instances in Quest levels.

In 3.6.7, they could also appear in front of the 1-tile closets on the north/south faces of random rooms (specifically, the ones that would normally be locked and contain a scroll of teleportation). 5.0.0 adds iron bars to certain Gehennom levels.

* Monkeys in minetown can now try to steal items from you (those may have been in a previous version)

That's also been a thing for a rather long time.

* player monster corpses can generate on traps

3.6.7 had generic elf/dwarf/orc/gnome/human corpses spawning on traps, but 5.0.0 changed it so human corpses almost always spawn with a specific role - I played a few games last night on nethack.alt.org, and one of them found an archaeologist corpse on the first level of the Mines.

NetHack has many variants and forks, and one of them was named NetHack 4 (and was based on version 3.4.3) - naming this release 4.0.0 would've been rather confusing.

On top of that, there had been numerous development builds named "3.7.0", so releasing the final version with that same number would've also been confusing, so they went with 5.0.0 instead.

... that has "K9" in magnetic ink logo printed on its side, and addresses its owner as Master or Mistress?

Of course not, silly. It's a fridge.

You seem to be ignoring one small factor in your comparisons: price. If you have infinite money, then certainly SSD is the way to go. But most of us do not.

We can all wear masks, all the time. An N95 mask should be good enough to filter out the microplastics. And during COVID, everyone showed how much they love wearing masks. We can do it and be safe again.

Didn't we just hear about this 3 days ago?

I can't believe I'm the first person to mention this show. The first season was great.

As for PCs, the vast majority of people use Word, Outlook, and a browser (usually the memory hog Chrome followed by Edge). Again, explain how a PC which is three years old reduces productivity in this day and age.

Easy - all of the added AI/telemetry crap in Windows 11 slows down all of the programs you're trying to run. And it doesn't help when those programs themselves are also being bloated with AI/telemetry.

You seem to have a short memory. I have a pretty clear memory of Biden's first days in office.

For the past 25 years, there have always been between 2 and 5 concurrently-supported versions of Windows Desktop:

• Windows NT 3.1 Workstation was supported from July 1993 to December 2000, nearly a year after Windows 2000's release in early 2000
• Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 Workstation were supported from late 1994/early 1995 to December 2001, two months after the release of Windows XP
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation was supported from August 1996 to June 2004, about a year after the ill-fated Windows XP for Itanium (which itself was followed by Windows XP for amd64 two years later)
• Windows 2000 was supported from February 2000 to July 2010, about 9 months after Windows 7 came out
• Windows XP was supported from October 2001 to April 2014, about six months after the release of Windows 8.1
• Windows Vista was supported from January 2007 to April 2017, just under two years into Windows 10
• Windows 7 was supported from October 2009 to January 2020, four and a half years into Windows 10
• Windows 8 was supported from October 2012 to January 2016 (before Vista!), at which point you had to upgrade to 8.1
• Windows 8.1 was supported from October 2013 to January 2023, a year and a half into Windows 11
• Windows 10 was supported from July 2015 until today, October 2025, 4 years into Windows 11
• Windows 11 was released in October 2021

For the first time ever, there is now exactly ONE supported version of Windows Desktop (excluding the various feature updates, and also excluding the Enterprise LTSC versions because, let's face it, nobody's legitimately running those at home). I'm sure Microsoft is thrilled that they don't have to worry about supporting old desktops anymore (aside from the people paying for up to 3 years of extended support).

Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.

I got a better deal. The Pixel 9a which normally sells for $499 is on sale right now for $249. With the $150 store credit and a trade-in of $80 on my Pixel 6a, I was able to upgrade to a new 9a for only $20. Now hopefully the 9a won't have battery issues.

It doesn't seem to me that an integer between 0 and 2 has enough range for most applications.