Well, yes, you can predict it'll turn into a circus !

My guess (and that's all it is) is that me descended from apes who use their shoulders to climb trees. Since few people climb things nowadays (except for rock climbers), shoulders are not meant to only carry a fork to your mouth to turn the wheel of the car, so potential problems are not selected against.

Yup, Linux is fantastic on oldish hardware. My main laptop it a 13-yo 19" Dell that I bought new and high-ish end at the time, but all the other family equipment is bought used and wiped with Kubuntu. Last year I got a 4-yo HP for 200$ and I thought the price was a tiny bit high, little did I know it was the start of a general price hike. Good thing they are all maxed out on memory. Anyway, all this to say there's no enshittification with Linux (or it's more subtle with things going from main to snap or similar).

Particularly since when NASA has a delay, it's usually because politicians cut off its funding, and they need to spread the butter real thin in order to keep going.

What's going on with the 3rd movie in the series. Wasn't it filmed years ago already ?

What's the circumvention tool ? Just a simple yt-dlp ? Look mom, I'm a hacker !

That's what ? 5000m altitude ? A lot of people have taken their phone to the summit of Mt Blanc...

Nope. I drive like a grampa. I actually spend way more time on my bike. Which doesn't beep at me. Yet.

Some things like an unclosed door signal are super useful, but some things are so annoying... Last time I rented a car in the US, I had to stop and read the manual after a mile because it was unbearable: it beeped when a car was passing me, it beeped if I didn't use my turn signal *after* passing a car (who does that ?), it vibrated in a scary way if I got close to any line, it beeped if I got 1mph over what it *thought* was the speed limit (many streets were wrong), and so many other things. I spent 15 mins in the manual to disable it all, and it was like 5am for me due to jet lag.

I want to note that it's long been possible to make a solar fridge at night. You know the solar ovens that use a parabola of mirrors and heat water or a sausage at the focal point if you point it at the sun ? Well, if you point it vertically at the night sky on a clear night, the black body radiation emitted by your water at the focal point will all flow to the sky and it will cool a lot faster that if it was simply lying on the ground.

That's the thing: it's a matter of preference. I like that on KDE I can put the task/menu bar anywhere I want. I hated that on Windows it HAD to be at the bottom; well I don't care anymore because I don't even have a remnant of Windows anywhere. On those long narrow screens I put it on the right and it it's a VM it goes on the left, so this way if I'm in a maximized VM I know immediately.

If the bank where you've had an account for 20 years without overdraft doesn't trust you, then who will ?

I could never get over the fact that if you've never borrow money and never used a credit card, you have a shit credit score...!?! It should be a perfect credit score instead ! I borrowed money for the 1st time when I was 35 and I had only ever used debit cards before and I couldn't find anything better than a 17% rate loan. What a fucking ripoff.

Wasn't the portable Windows market already dead and buried 20 years ago ? Or was it more ? I can't even remember the name of that version of Windows !

I remember looking at ReactOS in the early 2000 when I wanted to wean off the MS tit, but I found it severely lacking and decided to just jump completely to Linux, Gentoo first and then Kubuntu; only keeping an XP in a VM. I don't know how much it's improved since then...