"I slid the phone across a desk and felt oddly satisfied that it could glide as neatly as a figure skater without any hint of a camera bump hindering its path"

Yeah, that's my biggest gripe about my Pixel - the damn thing is so slick, the slightest slope will cause it, or something that's sitting on it, to slide off, even though it does have the camera bump (10 pro). I tried a couple of cases, but they have their own problems, so I'm just careful where I set it.

Anyone who's "watching" a show on a tiny screen and scrolling around on their phone couldn't care less about the plot anyhow.

What we really need is to move to Approval voting; many prefer ranked choice voting, but I don't believe it's practical on a national scale - Approval is much simpler and achieves the same goal: allowing one to vote for who one wants, without it being a spoiler vote.

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Hopefully the debris was from the mess they made themselves a while back...

I once replaced the head gasket in the middle of a trip in the middle of the night, thanks to a cooperative gas station and chevy dealer.

However, I wonder who keeps a phone long enough these days for it to matter?

It was the most useful class I had in high school, and is the reason I prefer Vi over other editors (not to start an editor war ;-) ) - if I have to take my hands off the keyboard to use a mouse, it just slows me down.

Letsencrypt will be the winner from this - free and automated.

I haven't heard of that, but it seems to be dependent on kde, so that explains why...

I've been using a Linux laptop for a decade, but when the new Air came out recently, I jumped back to Mac even though Dell has a comparable laptop because Preview is better for viewing photos than any of the Linux photo apps. It seems like a minor thing, but since the main thing I do on my laptop is check email, web browse, and manage photos, and thunderbird and chrome are pretty much equal across platforms, photos are the distinguishing item.

On my desktop, there are other apps that make MacOS the winner, despite the fact that each version keeps getting worse. I have my Linux vms for the non-gui services I use though.

I'm constantly have apps completely freeze and having to kill and restart them, and every new version of osx seems to make nfs worse and worse. Very frustrating...

I just got bit by that, trying to find a trailer for Murderbot - it was clear that who or whatever created them had never actually read the books.

I'm an old fart, and when I see "Space Ghost", I think of the old 60's cartoon I used to watch as a kid...
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I think it's worthwhile, not so much to bring them back to resurrect the species in the wild, but to be able to study them and find out what they were actually like

And we're supposed to believe our government, especially *this* one, is better than China? Not on your life...

Exactly my thought...