Pretty sure you'll jump right in once one of Trump's dumbass policies affects you individually.

Did you mean 'too warm', or that you don't want the water to get to warm, like, it could get to tepid, but not 'to warm'?

Crap, I hope we're not headed down the iTunes road. You know, where they changed the UI every update, to the point where it breaks all your workflows, and you're just sick of hunting through menus to try and do what used to be simple. I gave up on iTunes a couple of years ago. Bad Apple! Bad!

Nobody's broke in yet, why lock the doors?

'It's hard to imagine that slashdot was once a place where smart, technical, people would hang out' I've been reading /. since it started. You have a romantic notion of what Slashdot is, or has been. Practically had wars over vi vs. emacs, and Linux vs. everything. C'mon.

"Maybe that lack of awareness and feedback from users is why Microsoft has no taste and keeps doing shit like this. They have been trying to make Bing, and before that MSN, happen since the 90s and despite being the default on billions of machines they still failed. Every now and then they try ramming it up the user's arse again and maybe see a short term spike in numbers, get that year's bonus in." This.

I basically use whatever's provided with the OS. I'd use Word. I mean, I used MS Office Suite for 28 for the last twenty-odd years, so I'm used to it's over-bloated ass. But MS is too expensive. Even their OS is too expensive (try buying it not bundled with hardware). Eh, Word hasn't been worth a damn since 5.1 Fortunately my text editing needs aren't complex, and Apple includes Pages. I miss ClarisWorks...

Hear hear!

"The planet, will ultimately pay the price for our ridiculous disposable attitude, along with every human on it."

Too late!

'Member when TeeVee's lasted 25 years, an' you could pick up WLS all the way out in New Jersey on the AM radio? An' both of them could be repaired. Good as new. With TUBES!

I buy a lot of that Mexican Coke & Pepsi here in the U.S.

Additionally, standardized shapes, sizes, and openings allows other manufacturers to produce accessories that will always fit/work with standard bottles, think bottle holders, racks, carrying straps, etc.

"The thing is laptops are increasingly irrelevant. Most people either need a full desktop or can get by on a smartphone - those who truly need an actual laptop are a shrinking demographic." Bull pucky. Many people have never used a 'desktop' computer, at home, or at work. PC gamers are the only ones who really give a Hershey's squirt about desktops, them and maybe some corporate shops.

Same. But just ordered a new Mac Mini M1. You guys can go ahead and argue blah blah blah, I went through the first round of OS wars. I've supported a department full of Windows PC, run Linux & Sun servers, and played around with OSes for decades. At home, it's always been a Mac or a Linux box. Now in retirement, fuck it, I don't want to spend hours screwing around with computers to get them to work. So, back to the Mac. Big Sur will iron itself out in a couple of updates... And you guys can keep wasting your time arguing over which OS is best... I'll be over at the senior center picking up chicks.