I mean, RAM and hard drive prices are up, so everything else has to increase in price. Be happy they didn't double the subscription prices!

I visited twitter.now, and was inviting to "join" as a Founder for only $20. Or as a Fighter for only $ 40. Somehow this posting fails to mention that I am being charged for access to this new application (disclaimer: I did not complete the activation process, so I don't know if the $20 contribution is mandatory)

Roll their glue in little balls.
Those who read these lines of wit,
Fling those balls until they hit.

Is it possible to put software on a phone that prevents it from being tracked this way? Sort of like randomized MAC addresses with WiFi.

They can send up a few drums of the goop you squirt inside your car tire when you have a leak, and coat the entire inside of the ISS. This should be a pretty simple fix.

... 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.