You can also pair your Chrome OS device with your mobile phone so that it allows you to unlock if your phone is within reach. There were many alternatives to using your difficult password. Are you sure you are a nerd?

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D works for the Windows Store App from Netflix, and it's doing 1080p just fine. I'm not switching to Edge anyways.

Of course you are a father, you are on Slashdot!

What FB should have is an "I sympathize" button.

So, instead of selling PCs, vendors should advertise their equipment as bundles:

-- "Behold! The new ASUS this-and-that PC plus Windows bundle!"
-- "Do you have ASUS this-and-that PC plus Linux?"
-- "Oh, we only sell PC-Windows bundles, sorry"
-- "Then I only want the PC."
-- "Then go to a PC vendor. This is a bundle vendor."

Problem solved.

If you live in an appartment and you are above the 1st floor and your city regulations allow it, you could try hanging sound reflectors around your windows, so that sound coming from below may bounce back to the street. Lateral view: Window --> |/ -- Reflector. Play with the position angle to get the best compromise between view of the outside and level of attenuation. Different materials and thicknesses will work best for different frequencies, being bass the most difficult to reduce.

Remember Aliens VS Predator, which was another OK movie.