I replaced my last Windows OS by a Linux (without systemd, of course).

UFO exists, in the sense there are aerial phenomena that are not identified. That's all.
All the idiots thinking about alien life coming to visit us are in dire need of learning.
The size of the universe, the speed of causality, the scale of time would be a start.
But also recent history. The one that led to this myth of the flying saucer.

In a nutshell.
Someday, a long time ago, a pilot reported he saw a V-shaped something in the sky that was moving weirdly (like a saucer bouncing on water).
Basically, he saw a bird and he could not identify it. I think to recall the drawings in the reports are looking like the "v" a child uses to draw any bird.
A lazy journalist took the note and reported "a flying saucer" (fake news are not a novelty).
Idiots being what they are, multiple reports of flying saucers spawned from people (so not shaped at all like the original text).

Fast forward to Roswel.

A Mogul crashed, it was decorated with "mysterious symbols" (usual stuff you could find in a shop in the area). And yet people believe this nonsense.

Why they don't simply take one of the many more common mythologies is beyond me.

And why this garbage is on Slashdot is just a new low. I should really consider blocking it on my resolver to lose the habit of coming here.

Censorship.
Suppression of words.
Forbidden ideas.
That's where the USA are going.

My left thumb remembers.

"News for nerds, stuff that matters."
It took me a while to understand what it was about. (I had too look up "UFC")
A kid streaming a pirated video of an UFC fight pretending to play a video game.

I don't know how news about various science breakthrough will survive after this.

As far as I'm concerned, if we had the power to mod an article, this one would be reaching an msb set to 1 followed by a stream of zeroes.

Tell me that next time your laptop or phones catch fires, hopefully when your are not asleep.

Fast ?

When I was so fed up with Windows 10 and its long list of annoyances (the final one being preventing me accessing every directory on my filesystem, settings the rights back as soon as I specifically set them so I could see their content) I decided to give up playing with a couple hundred games that would not work in Linux ... yet (mostly the 'AAA' ones). It's not like I've much time to play anyway.

The backup of my disks (a few terabytes) took about 5 days. Just initializing it took the better part of an hour.
5 Days later, I switched to an Arch (a systemd-free version) and restoring the data took less than one hour.

Fast ...

"choose" ... with a convoluted process where one's vote does not carry the same weight as someone else's.
"choose" ... going around a few obstacles making it very difficult for many people to vote

"choose" ?

Who do you think has the power in the end ?
_ The people ?
_ Whoever corrupts ... sorry, I meant lobbies the politicians ?

Maybe I'll get hooked to it when I start using it then :)
So far I've always been on the port.

That must be the first thing you have read today, then :)
With the elaborate demonstration you've written to back up your statement, I can only bow to the heights of your intellect. (You can even read? I stand amazed.).
Here, take a cookie. Now run along, you scrawny toddler. :)

Sounds about right, I was around 15 at that time.

Where are my mod points when I need them ...

I've heard about this a long time ago (feels more than 20 years) and the only thing that I could say against, is that the raise was slower than I expected (I think I was a kid at the time, and it was on the TV/FUD news machine, so there is that).

I've read BT as BeaTs ... >_.
Please disregard previous comment.

You may try to read the headlines again. (Maybe they have changed since you wrote this).
Or the linked article (since the headlines can be wrong).