Back in the good old Usenet days, you'd have received a large number of replies pointing out tha Ugol's Law says "NO." Now, alas, Usenet is mostly gone and most people have forgotten that law if they ever knew it, but its response is still NO, and for the same reasons.

Iâ(TM)m not the only greybeard here wondering exactly why this question is being asked, since most *NIX heads here fully remember the boot burden of spinning rust, which upgrading that single component contributed to a massive savings in boot time.

I'm long retired and can still bore youngsters with tales of the IBM 1620 and punched cards. Now, I'm running a Dell Optiplex 980 that's at least a decade old and still uses spinning rust. It uses Fedora 43 and Xfce, and the timing on my last reboot looks like this:

~$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 1.693s (kernel) + 3.855s (initrd) + 33.899s (userspace) = 39.449s graphical.target reached after 33.898s in userspace. ~$

Of course, I'm sure that if I were using Gnome, the timing would be double that, but that's one of the reasons I'm using Xfce.

If you want to save chicks, find a way to make roosters useful as broilers or other forms of chicken. Because right now the needed population of roosters to hens is very low.

OK, if you don't want to kill the male chicks, turn them into capons. The meat is said to be delicious and it lets the males live longer.

Heck even us Brits look at the time off, benefits and protective labour laws in EU states with envy!

If so, then how do you explain Brexit? You'd think that all of the working class would have voted against it to keep those labor laws and benefits.

Years ago I knew a computer columnist and SF author, now deceased. Among other things, I did some house sitting for him. His WiFi password was quite similar to ThisIsAVeryVeryLongPassword because he figured that it was too long for the average hacker/cracker to break. Now, of course, he'd have to make it even longer.

Oh the sensitive vegans we need them traveling on the big rocket to Mars, where fake beauf-stake will be served every day.

No, not Mars, Venus. It's much easier to build an advertising campaign around someplace nobody knows much about because that way you can give it any description you want without being contradicted.

If you're buying directly from the rancher, you're probably familiar with one of my favorite smoked meats: beef bacon, although where you live it might be called cowboy bacon. It's made from beef plate, which is the same cut as pork belly and it's cured and smoked just the same way as regular bacon. The taste is a tad different, of course, and it tends to be a bit stringy for some reason, but it's a great breakfast meat if you're willing to give it a try.

Not actually funny though because you disrespect the history of India and the various bloody uprisings that happened there. Read some history about empires, there are a number to choose from.

And for those of you who only want the Reader's Digest condensed version, Read this, and remember, this wasn't done by the British, but by native troops.

I can't be bothered to post the link you can find it on Google pretty easily by searching for the phrase.

Sorry, but no; that's not how it works. You made the claim, so you're the one who has to provide the evidence, not me. If you can't be bothered to do so, I'm perfectly entitled to presume that it doesn't exist and that your claims are nonsense, as usual.

Not if you go back into the BIOS when you reboot after installation and change the boot drive to the one you normally use for booting. And, you can always set the optical drive as the second boot device for emergencies.

5. Why open standards matter. For instance, why you should use ODF instead of DOCX. - No idea what ODF is and why it's important over DOCX which is Microsoft's doc format IIRC. I have used/shared a doc/docx in 10+ years.

ODF is a file format used by various FOSS programs, such as LibreOffice to provide a common format that everybody can use without needing any proprietary programs or needing to buy licenses. There's more, of course, but I'm sure that you're capable of doing the appropriate web search, which you really should have done before posting.

Which Las Vegas are you talking about? There are two, you know.

At 76, I think I'm what most of you would consider old. I never have to worry about tripping over something if I have to get up at 2 AM, because I have a lamp next to my bed that I can turn on at times like that.

The term "gripping hand" only goes back to 1974. Where it came from is left as an exercise for the reader because if you don't already know, finding out for your self will be a learning experience.

2. Allow disabling AI system-wide

Better yet:
2. Remove all of the AI components and make them into a stand-alone package that the user can install if, and only if, they actually need or want it.