Democracy works exactly as intended. Dumb voters chose dumb leader. It would be another case if dumb people were a minority, or at least didn’t flaunt their idiocy by voting for the dumbest option available.

Spicy Jesus

Uh yeah, I’m pretty sure the discharge can stop your heart if you grab it in precisely wrong manner. Typical defibrillator uses like 50 times less energy, but with a higher voltage.

A capacitor of 1 farad at standard American 120 volts has the energy between 7.62×54 and .50 BMG, and will discharge just as violently.

Creating a kernel is hard, Linux itself is not going anywhere.
If all current maintainers suddenly disappear, several corporations, who heavily depend on Linux, will maintain their own forks, so we will get Google kernel for phones, Amazon kernel for datacenters, Valve kernel for gaming, and probably some European initiative kernel for PCs and laptops to do document editing.

This is a single-component rocket fuel, which means the rocket will not explode in a huge slow-burning red fireball, but detonate like a nuclear explosion, minimal visual effects but maximum shockwave, and a mushroom cloud of vapor.

Universities were already locking down their PCs in the 90’s, at least those with competent IT departments - BIOS password, locked boot menu, Windows 2000 with restricted user accounts. If you don’t do that, your every PC will have 15 copies of Counter Strike and a bunch of viruses in one week.

Chromebooks (and laptops in general) are way cheaper now than PCs were back then, so again, you need to buy your own and install a proper OS, the situation did not really change.

No they didn’t

Are you suggesting to go back to days when every single little thing required a driver on a floppy disk? You buy a Chromebook, you install Denian on it with a few keypresses, your videocard magically works, your soundcard works, your WiFi just connects with no issues whatsoever, you ignore the fingerprint scanner hardware as usual because who even needs that shit when your password is 14 symbols long, and done, you are ready to install a gigabyte of NPM packages to create your single-page web app. Don’t tell me Windows 95 was somehow better, it only made your life slower and miserable, just like your Intel i486SX which could not run Quake because it lacked FPU.

The truth is people who want small phones also want them for the price of a clamshell feature phone with no 4G support. I’ve heard these complaints many times from older acquaintances, they want their old Nokia that can also run Viber and do videocalls, and they are not paying iPhone SE price, so there’s practically no market for small but high-spec phones, outside of luxury brands where you are buying an ancient chip with a leather back cover.

What’s the total human population again, 8 billion?

I live in an apartment building. The liquor store is on the ground floor.

The ingenuity of this command is that /dev/nul does not exist, the correct path is /dev/null, however the command executes without error and creates a symlink to a non-existing path.
The only thing missing is sudo.

At least there are separate apps, and you don’t have to register your bank card with them to use maps, you don’t even need to enable GPS.

Definitely China. You go there, and you install the Baidu Maps app, because Google Maps does not work there. But it’s not just maps, it also includes chat, banking, public transport tickets, and voice calls, all in a single app. Many street vendors don’t even have cash, they accept Baidu payments through the app. And it’s as big-brother as it gets, it immediately asks for every permission and refuses to work otherwise.

That’s interesting. Does that mean that something like Monster Girls anime is acceptable for big-screen cinema, because it includes enough fantasy elements (and exotic body parts) to be considered artistic? It’s still very much “intended to arouse”, does the movie need to match both criteria to be considered porn?

Useless drama in the article.
Yeah, cheap cable and cheap charger won’t provide 35 watts of power. However that cheap 24-pin Type-C cable costs the same as 5-pin Micro-USB cable did in 2010, and you can use your old Type-A charger with it, so you’ll getting your 5 volts 2 amperes everywhere, and did I mention that the connector is reversible?

That’s a recent quote, appearing around 2010 I think.
People in the 70’s were actually performing quite well in their porn, the film rolls were expensive, the morals were still very much conservative, and they were calling it ‘art’ and hiring big name Hollywood actors.
The most expensive porn movie ever is Caligula, with a budget of $17.5 million, and it was released in 1979. Cheap porn is a recent trend, because, well, no jerking off in the cinema, so the distribution is limited to streaming, plus porn was customarily pirated for a long long period, and not much protected by courts.

mcedit, because I’m not nerdy enough for vim.

Because it does work, you need grep -E for ‘+’ to work without escaping. Also, your quotes are wrong, ‘ should be ’ .