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Assume you’re an eccentric centi-billionaire that wants to create a new desktop/server-class OS that can match Windows, macOS, and Linux in performance, compatibility, and security, and be sold commercially as a…

I open Spotify. One day many moons ago, Spotify was a tool for listening to music. Now I'm not sure what it is. It presents me with eight tiles, all unlabeled, all with an identical sleek black appearance. One of the…

I've owned a Pixel 2 and a Motorola something-or-other. On both phones the built-in Android apps were outrageously slow (compared to other apps like Facebook Messenger, Gmail, etc.) Long rendering times when I went into…

An acquaintance of mine had his Instagram account stolen by an active hacker; the guy is still using it and regularly shows up online. Efforts by my friend to recover it don't seem to have gotten anywhere. What would be…

Short: Do you have a reliable strategy to pass the online HR screening method and be selected for a first interview? Long: I have submitted perhaps 50 job and internship applications in the past 10 years, and won 4 (2…

I work in between clients and programmers; my job is essentially to decompose client requirements into design documentation to be built by developers. [1] Since I started the job, I've been running into what I'm calling…

I've worked through thousands of hours of math courses in my life and am now embarking on an amateur study of logical reasoning, mostly through puzzle books and the Logic course on Brilliant.org. Although in each math…

I read many accounts of Google locking out users from their Google Accounts and providing no available recourse, so I moved to Microsoft OneDrive and an external drive backup system. However, with the recent release of…

I'm hoping to avoid an old-fashioned product-fanboy flame war, but I don't know any other forum that might notice the same things I've noticed. I am a diehard user of Google Drive, Google Images, Google Search, Gmail,…