Once US society made the jump from "right vs wrong" to "good vs evil" it became an intractable problem. @dang: was this a mistakenly flagged post? I don't think what I said was off topic or objectionable...to anyone,…
Funny I was using chrome on android the other day and the number of sites with huge ads that obscure content reminds me of popups in the early 2000's. Some mainstream sites are practically unusable. I suppose they've…
Maybe. Android works across tons of devices and the difference in battery life doesn't jump out to me compared to the fruit company. Linux on a laptop gets similar battery life to Windows in my experience, and that's…
The ones usually sold these days with the plastic caps on them are worse than useless, they leak all over and the safety nozzle on them leaks like hell too.
I once read an essay by an administrator of a small college who was talking about some incentives for high tuition costs. The biggest for his school was that parents and prospective students expected any tuition to be…
Part of a workable solution might be to incentivize companies funding the FOSS they depend on. Tax incentives and the like. Developers only get so much say, get the beancounters involved.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned yet in this thread is that even for modern turbo diesels you are instructed in the owner's manual to let it cool for about 4-5minutes before shutoff. IIRC this allows the turbo to…
Once US society made the jump from "right vs wrong" to "good vs evil" it became an intractable problem. @dang: was this a mistakenly flagged post? I don't think what I said was off topic or objectionable...to anyone,…
Funny I was using chrome on android the other day and the number of sites with huge ads that obscure content reminds me of popups in the early 2000's. Some mainstream sites are practically unusable. I suppose they've…
Maybe. Android works across tons of devices and the difference in battery life doesn't jump out to me compared to the fruit company. Linux on a laptop gets similar battery life to Windows in my experience, and that's…
The ones usually sold these days with the plastic caps on them are worse than useless, they leak all over and the safety nozzle on them leaks like hell too.
I once read an essay by an administrator of a small college who was talking about some incentives for high tuition costs. The biggest for his school was that parents and prospective students expected any tuition to be…
Part of a workable solution might be to incentivize companies funding the FOSS they depend on. Tax incentives and the like. Developers only get so much say, get the beancounters involved.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned yet in this thread is that even for modern turbo diesels you are instructed in the owner's manual to let it cool for about 4-5minutes before shutoff. IIRC this allows the turbo to…