But when we start getting into language wars, it's exactly like people bickering over whether German or French is "better". It's a nonsense

Exactly, because German isn't a real language, it's fake!

(As a non native speaker sharing my home with three native speakers, I can only say, this is my story and I'm sticking with it...)

I for one, welcome our ixian overlords!

A testament to the impressive capabilities that once characterized HP. A relic from the past. My dad had a 21c. No idea where it went after our parental house got cleared out then sold. Anyway, such devices are what engineers should aspire their work to be like: solid and with graceful aging, peaking high and lasting longer than anticipated and required.

I for one appreciate and share your stance. So when my Panasonic TZ200 died, and I found the only available alternative to be the Sony RX100 vii, it stopped me in my tracks. I'm still hesitant whether to buy one or not. Perhaps at a good price, second hand...? Looks like I can also do without...

I realise I'm late to the party, but perhaps we could have a biweekly meeting about the topic?

It's like the designers prepared ahead for "ultimate MacGyver" back in the day. "So, you have one Swiss pocket knife, one pair of shoestrings and some non conducting handcreme, what can break that cannot be fixed with that?" "The side radiometric thingamajig, to fix that shoestrings are useless, that would need wooden gambling dice!"

Now that I think of it, considering the timeline, some of these people may have actually helped out the scriptwriters of MacGyver....

For true stealth, you should actually only believe it if you can't see it...

You're not wrong, but if you ascribe your own salary level to your free time, hobbies are terribly expensive....

Since I learnt to use computers on HP UX systems (Apollo stations) in the 90s, with virtual desktops, I've always felt the same about Windows (oh, it caught up since a few years), unusable. Gimp on its own desktop on fhd or bigger works fine with all the loose windows - provided your window manager has edge resistance and magnetism, being able to resize and move windows without grabbing the frame or title bar, etcetera. I don't know when windows will have all that (power tools?), but any system under my control has had that since forever... Without it, Gimp may well be a pain to use.

So I totally get your point, just wanted to point out other users don't have it, which is why the devs may not put effort in fixing that.

Route hotspot traffic over the phone's VPN session (speak of which, why isn't this a thing in stock android?)

I suppose that could be useful. I've never heard any demand for that feature, though. Is there a patchset that implements it?

I was actually surprised to find it's not standard, or not even an option in the hotspot settings... So please count my demand. ;-)

The tumor was operated out, according to the article. Also, it was a return case, so her immune system wasn't capable of taking care of it just by itself.

Exactly, the lines are blurry, and definitions are also not always generally agreed upon. To me, a library is also a program, just of a special/ specific type and with a specific use. As it's the OS kernel. But to be honest, I didn't pay that much attention to software stuff at uni, I'm a hardware guy at heart. So I get by on my definition - see above, computer type hardware needs a kernel with drivers plus some kind of UI (this whole collection is what I call the OS) to make the hardware usable, any code on top that can have parallel alternatives/ replacements isn't part of the OS, realising that loads of people use different and more or less differentiated views. So for me, drivers are part of the OS, including for file systems, and indeed, bash and vim aren't part of the OS - you can use csh, tcsh, nano, etc, but they are part of most distributions. It's perfectly fine if you stick to your definition, because that's not a problem as long as we're aware. And if we discuss a problem with a printer driver that doesn't work properly on any Linux system, it's still a Linux problem, no matter if it's part of the kernel or OS (my view) or not (other people's views)...

It needs way more lipstick for THAT.

Oh wait, you didn't mean that THAT...

I catch your drift and agree it's crap. But a good team will notice with time.

In your definition of operating system (I'm guessing that you're not a native speaker, just like me, so operation system is close enough for me) Safari is a part of MacOS? I have no beef either way, it's just far away from the way I word things. I consider the OS the software that makes the hardware usable. Stuff that makes that combo usable is software/programs on top. I consider any software on top of the OS that can have concurrent alternatives just programs. So KDE Plasma is part of the OS (if you happen to use that as your DE, even if you can have alternatives installed and could use those too, just not concurrently), any codec that is not essential for the system to work/run is a program on top.