Maybe that was a bad idea in the face of rapidly growing demand.

What possible value is coming from this besides corporate welfare.

They're not even practicing getting into orbit around the moon, which would be needed for a landing. This is just a government sponsored joy ride.

I grew up in the 80s and remember Pizza Hut being a kind of nice place to take your family out or even go on a date (for a college kid). It was a sit-down restaurant with nice table service, good food, decent ambiance, and even a pretty good salad bar!

The last Pizza Hut I ate at was crap and it's now a tax prep office.

It will be especially fun when they start lowering credit scores because you "fail to submit to AI credit management".

As a "my first computer was a C64" kind of geek, the last thing I want is more useless plastic e-waste to clutter my house that will eventually end up in a landfill.

Gift ideas for a geek of my generation? A donation to the EFF in my name, or maybe a used copy of a book like Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. An old copy of a BYTE, Compute!, or Creative Computing might trigger some nice nostalgia. Maybe even a coffee cup with vi or emacs commands, but even that's pushing it because who doesn't already have more than plenty of coffee cups?

Sadly, in a conceptual sense, this is hardly a new problem. Sending the data in the same channel as the commands of the public telephone system is what allowed phreaking to be so successful. For example, putting money into a payphone triggered an audio signal that was sent down the line saying you had paid. It was trivial to replicate that sound into the headset, tricking the system into thinking you had paid for the call.

I'm sure the so-called "DOGE" only helped solve that problem...

https://www.ipla.com/news/doge...

One obnoxious way to get the older version is to install an older LTS of Mint into a virtual machine and then go manually get all the bits that are Thunderbird and copy them to your new system. The hard part is making sure you have all the bits, but I don't remember how I did that.

Unfortunately, the Mint installation essentially copies a complete installation to your system, so there are no .debs of the installed packages. But I've wondered if some other distribution might install all the applications from .deb or .rpm files.

This is actually a topic in Asimov's Foundation sequels. There's a galactic-standard hour, day, and year, and every plant maps their rotational and revolutional patterns to that. A main plot point was trying to find THE planet that had true 24 hour days and 364.25 day years, since that might have been the birthplace of humanity.

I use Brave too and am frustrated by that... I put an extension that exports my history periodically, so at least I'll still have it. History Trends Unlimited.

I wish they could make it a configurable option to turn off the trunctation.

While we're fixing history problems with Chrome, why not make it stop truncating history at 90 days. Many things in life happen on a yearly cycle. It would be great to be able to see things I was looking at a year ago (holiday gifts, items for a class I'm planning, etc.) as I'm looking for things this year. What a stupid policy.

I just threw one of my Roku devices in the trash. It looks like Apple TV is the only one that doesn't enshittify too much and I just ordered one. But they don't play from local media servers (DLNA) natively, so you need an app.

I feel guilty for the people I recommended use a Roku over the years. They used to be a pretty good product. At least Apple isn't likely to be purchased by a predatory private equity firm.

I've been a Firefox user for decades. But I'm tried of their updates breaking things and taking away functionality. I'm updating, but to Brave. Goodbye Firefox.

Same here. I only play table-top and boardgames online with friends (e.g. Lords of Waterdeep, Dune Imperium, Ticket To Ride) rather than low-latency higher action games. But even with these, if they manage to run on a default Steam install on Linux, they run really slowly and often have odd glitches.

So I dual boot. It's the only thing I use Windows for.

Sure, ChromeOS is based on the Linux kernel, but hardware compatibility is complicated. Here's a site devoted to hacking chromebooks and chromeboxes and the compatibility page tells quite a story: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/...

Basically, many of the components in many of these machines are custom and there are no Windows or Linux drivers available for them. For example, you might re-flash it to install Linux but the sound and touchpad won't work.