It's deeply ironic that this headline appears on a page literally covered in adverts for Temu.

1) The longest lived was a PDP11/34A. Made in the late 70s or early 80s, it was still running when I sold it in 2005. Did a couple of component-level repairs, and I reckon there's every chance that it still runs today. Not sure if it counts as "personal" though. I have a polycarbonate Macbook from 2007 still going strong, so I guess that makes the answer "Apple". 2) Self-built. From pretty mainstream components, Ryzen 5600X, Asus motherboard. It should last me at least 10 years, with maybe a GPU upgrade along the way.

So this thing has a somewhat decent speaker... how long before we can stream our itunes music through it ? Yes, it will probably run the battery down rapidly, but it might take the prize for the smallest wireless speaker that doesn't just go beep.

Beautiful; thank you!

Once upon a time the gender bias was real; now it's still perception, if nothing else. I would really love to see this poll re-administered.

That poll is from many years ago (don't remember exactly when, but at more than 1500 polls ago I'm pretty sure we're talking on the order of 10 years.) The internet has changed a lot since then.

Okay, so you're not a candidate for the Mars suicide mission. And probably not for the Lewis and Clark expedition, either. But that doesn't mean that this guy isn't, and that his comment was infantile hyperbole.

Without people who would die to blaze new trails, there would be no new countries to visit, or people like Jimi Hendrix to meet.

Just because evolution has different values than you doesn't mean it's "turned upside-down." Evolution's "goal" has never been an intelligent, rich, well-educated society.

Put another way: In western medicine, we use things that work in randomized, double-blind, short-term studies. In non-western medicine, we use things that have consistently worked in practice over the course of many, many generations, rather than continuously testing to see if things work in special cases, particular forms of administration, and particular contexts.

There are good reasons why traditional remedies so consistently prove to be effective. I do not dispute that

once upon a time. But do not discount the longitudinal studies that comprise tradition.

It depends on whether my notes are likely to have any graphics-- and that depends on the context in which I'm taking notes. I like graph paper for graphics, college-ruled lined paper for text-only.

Airlines loose an average of 90,000 pieces of luggage every day... and I've often wondered how many of these were actually stolen. I'm sure it's not an insignificant figure, and that this couple is not the only example of luggage stealing taken to the level of a business.

But airlines have very little incentive to take care of your luggage once you've paid to check it. Lost luggage is just accepted by so many travelers as part of the risk of air travel.