You have a short memory. This shit show isn't worse than the past. MS very much pushed out colossally fucked up updates, even back in the XP days. Heck back then, before the days of automated recovery processes shit was MUCH worse. There were actual updates that may have forced you to go looking for your Windows XP install disc to fix.

Your comment fails for the same reason. By your reasoning you don't know anything about Microsoft's process but you're declaring victory for Open Source. The reality is that everything who makes this an open vs closed issue is very ignorantly missing the underlying fact that security update affect all platforms and all practices for releasing code, open or closed. Just in different ways.

It does not. Zero-days are a thing on Linux. EOL is a thing on Linux, and many modern distros very much will force auto-update packages marked as a security risk.

Congrats, you so clever. All users did this in the 90s. It was a security nightmare, especially when people were proud of running out of date buggy software. You may be an expert and capable of curating your update process (I'll give you the benefit of doubt, generous of me since you think this concept is OS related) but that doesn't mean what you do is even remotely appropriate for 99% of users out there, regardless of what OS they use.

And yet the answer is actually yes. Unless all you do is Linux command line stuff or browse static webpages using a browser that last was standards compliant in the early 2000s, 4GB is not longer a viable minimum for anyone who doesn't also spend their evenings self-flagellating. It's masochistic to use an underperforming computer.

The internet is dynamic. Lazy loading is an optimisation technique that makes the browser experience better for the 99.99% of people currently *not* sitting at the airport about to board a flight.

What you really want to do is save the page. Chrome has that function, though I suspect it will have other problems, but it very much does load all images and make the page static (many webpages have an expiry / timeout period so even if you pre-loaded the tab, activating it 30min later will cause it to attempt to reload). There's a shitload of things preventing you doing what you want to do, you really need to find another solution.

Print to PDF may work too?

Lazy-loading is not load on demand. It's literally loading it when it gets close to the viewport, in advance, before the user actually sees it or clicks on it. It's the middle thing between loading on demand, and pre-loading every element on the page.

Continuous scrolling content has nothing to do with this article. This article is about Chrome, and Ctrl+F works fine for all loaded content, you are misdirecting your anger in a comment to the wrong article. Also you can't load infinitely. You can't Ctrl+F the second page of Slashdot while on the first page either.

This has nothing to do with anything. You are making a completely off-topic rant. Continuous scrolling pages are not a symptom of using a pre-made libarary. It's a choice for displaying content. An admittedly shitty and anti-consumer choice, but a choice none the less. They may use a pre-made library to do it (and they should, too many programmers baking their own recipe is the reason why some continuously loading pages just end up as a ginormous memory leak. If they were *good* programmers they'd understand the value of using a tried and tested library using DOM-reuse or some other efficient way of doing their anti-consumer task. But none of this has anything to do with lazy-loading of video / audio.

Disagree heavily. You should absolutely load. Autoplay absolutely is a cancer and entirely within the control of the user, but when the user hits that play button that video better play instantly and not sit there buffering or loading. Lazyloading is a good thing that makes the internet appear far more responsive.

I was wondering the same thing. Do they have many timer travelers there, or maybe aging is different there. It could explain K-Pop. Neither the Doctor nor Benjamin Button are from there, I wonder if they were also subject to annual age re-verification?

Today's grocery clerks earn higher wages in both nominal and inflation-adjusted terms, but those gains are overshadowed by by the rapid rise in housing costs. Rent and home prices have grown far faster than wages and also food prices. Also, I found out that the CPI measures consumption not investments. So housing costs are not reflected the same way that you would think. Overall, house prices and rents have increased 4x the accepted rate of inflation. Thus life was far more affordable in the 50s. You are talking about AC, but you don't need AC to live. In fact since residential AC was not even INVENTED in the 50's you wouldn't have wanted air conditioning anyway so it's not something that they wanted but could not afford in the 50's because they didn't know what it was.

Inflation only reflects the increase of a standard basket of goods. In reality, shelter and transportation costs have risen several times inflation yet they are the two things most important to people. A regular clerk at a store in the 50s had a much fuller life than one today.

I used to like Ubuntu, but then the unity desktop happened. It was choppy even on a gaming laptop and I had never seen such a waste of desktop space. I left and never went back.

When did Apple have an open app store?

Except for the stagnation of wages with respect to living expenses over the last fifty years. This has put massive downward pressure equally on what all companies are offering across the board, and in my experience no company is willing to start a wage war to attract more talent.

All the better reason to stay off entirely.