I thought it was because Merv Griffin injected them with window cleaner.

Why are you searching only for 11" when you were originally comparing to an Air, which only comes with 13" and 15" screens?

In the Windows world, the best values tend to be in the 15" class, while smaller screens are generally on more premium models.

And yes, there are a lot of options. Some of us like that, instead of being at the whims of what one manufacturer wants to offer in a given generation.

Yes, a Chromebook that is likely several years old and cost $200 is going to be disappointing compared to a $1000 laptop from a premium manufacturer.

There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.

The tasks may be similar, but iOS is aggressive about suspending or terminating applications that are not in the foreground.

I would be skeptical of performance with multiple foregrounded apps, personally.

According to VGChartz the Switch has YTD sales of 12,477,026 compared to 14,233,301 for the PS5, which had six additional months of sales.

That's a lot of people who don't need to buy a Switch 2 for Christmas because they already bought one a few months ago.

In a web environment, yeah, my understanding is that there still needs to be some amount of glue code to manipulate the DOM.

I'm a backend developer, so that is less of interest to me than WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface.

AssemblyScript might count, but with a WASM target instead of Javascript.

I used Linux as my desktop exclusive for about twenty years. Jumped ship to Windows because I wanted a convertible laptop (specifically a Surface) and the Linux experience was pretty terrible. Didn't handle high-DPI displays well (it required making separate config tweaks for GTK+ and QT, and per-app for other toolkit), didn't handle multi-point touchpads well, didn't support the digitizer, didn't handle display geometry changes cleanly, etc, etc.

They didn't even have WSL at the time, but since the majority of Linux apps I needed were command line anyways, Cygwin and Putty accommodated my needs well enough, and WSL clinched it.

The level of integration with WSL2 now is incredibly slick, with access between the two platforms almost entirely seamless. I've thought about going back to Linux but honestly don't see the point on my main machine.

You really think that trying to port a thirty-year-old code base written for 16-bit x86 processors with no support for modern necessities like character encoding would have been easier?

Those vehicles don't meet US safety standards and are severely underpowered compared to anything on the US market (vehicles like the BYD Seagull and Wuling Bingo put out something like 70-75hp and have top speeds in the low 80s). Given that the primary aversion to EVs in the United States remains range and charging related, their relatively tiny batteries and low ranges are likely deal breakers as well.

Update it for the market, and you're probably looking at something in the low $20s or maybe just south for a barebones trim. I fully expect established automakers to be hitting those segments within the next couple years (or even next year, factoring in tax credits).

What I find more interesting at the bottom of the market isn't cheap cars; it's cheap car alternatives.

They've had 64-bit emulation for over a year. They supported 32-bit apps from launch, back in 2017.

They also released a new ABI called ARM64EC to aid developers in transitioning x86 applications to native ARM versions.

A base model Bolt is $26,500. More than fifty percent more expensive is not "slightly higher".

Yeah, but batteries and other components are cheaper, as is construction. It's not inflation that increased the price; it's Tesla's profit margins. Appears those are being slashed in order to maintain growth in an increasingly competitive market, though.

Stevia showing up in reduced calorie "natural" foods has been happening for a while, but it has definitely accelerated.

The increasing use of non-nutritive sweeteners in foods not labeled "diet" or "reduced calorie" goes back further than the stevia craze, though. It was probably a decade ago when I bought a bottle of Lipton Brisk tea for my wife, and she said it tasted strange. Checked the label and it had acesulfamate potassium in it. Probably around the same time I bought a package of Thomas' English Muffins (one of the flavored ones, cranberry maybe?) and ended up not eating them because they has a weird aftertaste that turned out to be sucralose (which I found are also in some Pillsbury products, like their honey butter biscuits).

Health concerns aside, I just don't like the flavor of these things, and it is increasingly hard to avoid them, even in "natural" products.

The only thing that would make catching up easy is if they stopped making movies. I think I've seen ... 4 of the 29 MCU films, and none of the shows. And I guess there are another 15 in development? Plus all of the other Marvel movies that are not part of that multiverse, like the 13 X-Men films.

With all of the reboots and remakes and rights bouncing from one studio to another comic book movies are as much of a confused mess as their source material.