Same here, but in my case it was about 21 years ago.Since then, the only time I've used Windows has been to play games at a private club I belong to.

Who needs a Mexican restaurant to get menudo? I live in Colorado, just north of the New Mexico state line, and if I want menudo, I just go to the supermarket and buy a can of Juanita's. Quite good and much faster than making it from scratch.

This is how the "walled garden" effect evaporates.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Properly roasted, beef marrow is delicious especially as an appetizer. Not only that, you can use melted tallow as an ingredient in pemmican which will remain fresh and edible for years if you do it right, making great emergency or camping rations.

Do you mean the one that was launched in late 2024 or is there some other probe with that name that you're thinking of?

In my case they succeeded quite thoroughly. When I saw what Gnome 3 was going to be like I started looking around, and by the time it came out I'd migrated to Xfce and Compiz and never looked back. It's lightweight (An important consideration at the time because money was tight and RAM upgrades weren't an option.) easy to configure and lots of eye candy available if that's what you want. Most of that goes on my laptop so that I can show off to people still using Windows and ask them why their computers can't do that.

I don't know just what you think the term Tragedy of the Commons means, but whatever you think it is is wrong. It refers to the idea that if everybody has unfettered access to common resources they will, in time, over-use and destroy them.

That goes back to the Eighteenth Century, or possibly earlier. The idea was to make sure that soldiers didn't have an easy excuse for being late for muster.

Have you also read the sequal, Escape from Hell?

Flat like a kid's movie - tall kid, smart kid, fat kid, dumb kid, bossy kid, rich kid, poor kid, ....

No, no, no, no, no: tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks; fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox...

copyright is just property law that distorts the concept of property and exploits "art" to protect rents, mostly those of big companies. and a convenient instrument for censorship.

If, as you claim, copyright is nothing other than a way for the rich to protect their profits, how do you explain the Copyright Clause? It does seem to me, at least, that it contradicts you in no uncertain terms.

...my fingerprint could be unreadable (some finger-losing or scarring accident)...

I'm in my mid 70s now, and my fingerprints are so worn down that when I turn pages in a book, I have to watch the page numbers to make sure I'm not turning more than one page. A few years ago, I found it impossible to set up the fingerprint reader on a new laptop because of that. I have no idea how that happened, because you'd think that as they get worn down they'd also grow back, but not this time. Are they so badly worn that they can't be used for ID? That I can't say because it's been decades since anybody has tried that with me.

... Enough to create doubt.

This, however would be a civil case not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is only the standard in criminal cases. In a civil case like this, the standard is the preponderance of evidence. That means that the jury is supposed to judge for whichever side is more likely; 51% is supposed to be enough.

It's getting to the point that I'm beginning to suspect that there are only two people who actually understand Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Eccentrica Gallumbits and Dark Helmet.

Never leave a tip on the credit card line. I --always-- put $0 and then put cash on the table or in the card-folio.

Sometimes I'll do it that way, sometimes I put it on the credit line. However, there's one chain of coffee shops where I'll always put the cash on the table, because the lowest tip percentage available is more that I think is proper for a tip except for extraordinary circumstances.