I use my iPad for eBooks, Documentation PDFs, light browsing, Video Conferencing when not at the desk.
I use my phone for calling and also all of the above when I'm not at home to use the iPad or the computer.
When at the desk, in front of the computer, I use that for everything + work, heavy browsing and actual computer stuff.
Could I live without and iPad, just with my phone and desktop ? Yes. But I prefer the bigger screen of the iPad to the phone's screen and I don't feel like siting in the chair in front of the big monitors all day.
The iPad is a nice "middle" device - a bit computer, a bit phone, and worth-it if you can get a refurbished one for a nice price.
The iPad PRO on the other side ... not worth the extra money - all that computing power but it's still in a tablet form with a OS/GUI that doesn't let you use-it to it's full capabilities.

1983 - GraphPlan
1984 - Graphstation
1984 - Overhead Express
1985 - IBM Storyboard
1985 - Slidewrite
1986 - Harvard Graphics
...
1987 - PowerPoint

I am the Pusher Robot
I shove around the blind people
We are here to protect you
We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space
I am the Shover Robot
I push bread down their throats
We are here to protect you
We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space

RHEL8 removed from the install image the drivers for a lot of older RAID controllers. No problem - they could be added back in a custom initrd.
Then they started worked closer with hardware manufacturers to drop support for older (but still good and working) servers. Example: October announcement from RedHat that support and drivers will be dropped for all Dell servers older than Gen13 (and even Gen13 ones). This includes RHEL7 - 7.10 kernels/initrds will come without some drivers that are there today in 7.9
Now they say you won't be able to add those drivers back anymore. Please mind - those are drivers already included in the Linux kernel source, not 3rd party ones.
We have started phasing-out all RH-based distros in our datacenter, all new upgrades and deployments are on Debian-based distros now.

I learned to drive on a stick shift and I drove one for almost 15 years until I climbed in my first automatic.
My left foot instinctively banged the footrest and I was slapping the PRNG shifter without thinking for about a year.
Then after 6 years of automatic I got a Tesla. Little panic attacks for a few months every time I wanted to switch to Gear, Park or Reverse and my hand was grabbing for the inexistent handle.
Compared to a manual transmission ICE with a engine you can stall if you're in the wrong gear at the wrong RPM, driving an EV is totally different AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO DO IT.
The best way I can describe driving an EV to someone who only drove stick is: Imagine you're driving one of those expensive remote controlled toy cars. Only it's so big that you can fit inside. The right pedal is a potentiometer controlling how much electricity flows in your electrical motor connected directly to the tires, the left one is for emergency braking when lifting your right foot does not stop the car fast enough. You press the right foot in, it accelerates - regardless if you were standing still before or doing 60. Bigger battery = more acceleration.
It's not a Car, it's an Electric Vehicle shaped like one. And once you get used to it, it's very nice and relaxing to drive.
Can it do everything a 4x4 Manual Transmission off-road car does ? No.
Can the off-road car do everything what the EV does ? No.
Will adding a Rudder Wheel to an EV make-it sail the seven seas with ease ? Also no.
Will there be sleazy "journalists" praising such a thing to get idiot ex-boat captains buying one ? You betcha !

Now that they have an empty factory, they can license the designs of the Ukrainian AN-225 from Antonov Airlines and build some of those useful beasts.

1) In the early 2000's the ISP's on most of Easter Europe were advertising on billboards: "Download Music and Movies faster !". At the time, there were no official outlets allowing legal purchase or rent of digital media in those countries.
2) In a lot of EU countries, "pirating" software or digital media for personal use is not a punishable offense. Only "distribution" is.

Those "Hosted Payloads" might as well be a bunch of tungsten rods, with a bit of solid rocket engines attached for initial acceleration/breaking orbit and guidance.
Quite a few smaller rods can fit in a the current StarLink v1.5 sats. And 20 ft long rods will perfectly fit in the v2.0 sats.
And when you have a few hundred of those bundles of rods circling the earth every hour and a half ...

Or, they could do it like Romania - early adopters of DVB-T, almost all the private/local TV stations started transmitting in DVB-T taking after the national television.
All OTA analog transmissions were soon stopped.
All DVB-T towers around the country in charge of retransmission are run by a state-owned company who was charging retransmission fees.
Then DVB-T2 showed up, the retransmission company decided they will be early adopters again, but this time it will be a cut-over from DVB-T to DVB-T2. At the time there were just a couple of high-end TVs available that had built-in DVB-T2 decoders. So all local/private TV stations got together and decided they will stop transmitting OTA altogether. You want TV - get cable (who has to pay the TV stations). So the retransmission company, no longer getting money from all the TV stations, scaled down their DVB-T deployment greatly, so now you an only receive as an OTA signal the National TV stations, and only in like 5% of the country (compared to almost 90% coverage in the analog & DVB-T era).
And cable TV companies rejoiced and started slowly rising subscription prices.

GobalEntry is doing the facial recognition for a while and it's excellent:
Get out of a long international flight.
Everybody else queues up on the looong lines for immigration control for passport check.
You walk up to a kiosk with with no line of people waiting in front of it.
Take your hat/glasses off, so you look like in the passport photo.
You touch your language selection on the screen.
A camera window shows up and you need to move you head around to fit your face inside the head-shape line on the screen.
A couple of seconds later the screen shows a green checkmark and instructs you to continue. You walk past the single checkpoint booth and the immigration officer welcomes you by name to the US of A.
No lines, no wait, passport stays inside your pocket, you are the 1st to get your bags off the carousel and get a Uber/Taxi before the hundreds of people still in the passport check line.
$100 for 5 years and includes both TSApre and Sentri. Worth every penny.

The government already has my face - better make something useful for me with that data.
"But I don't want them taking a picture of me AGAIN". Yeah ... see those black domes on the ceiling in the airport ? Guess what's inside ? And I'm willing to bet those video streams also go to some hard-drives for long storage.

Well, if they do, I made sure it already has a TMDB entry with a poster and backdrop so it displays nicely in your Kodi / Plex.
Now somebody add a "Announced" IMDB page for it.

FFS.
Cost Plus Drugs
Mark Cuban's online pharmacy.
Somehow he sells common prescription medicines, without insurance discounts cheaper than what I pay for the (supposedly) super-discounted ones covered by my expensive PPO plan.
Told our PCP to send all of ours to Cost Plus and it's costing us less than 1/2 from what we're paying before.

Hello ? chkconfig ?
enable/disable/add/remove/change any runlevels anytime
Originally from Irix

It looks like there are way more people wanting to compensate for a lack of something by getting BIG phones.
The 13 mini is enough for me, thanks.

iPhone 13 mini is the closest one. And it still has a SIM tray.