Just in time for Google to kill RCS and move on to something else.

You could proyget pretty good bandwidth with a tube full of portable digital storage. Latency will suck though.

From the article it does seem that the failure of ability isn’t strictly related to computers per SE, but to an over all inability to think about the word problems given in an abstract and mathematically coherent way. They seemed to ask participants to solve what are essentially database query, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and logic problems in the context of an email suite. Word problems can be hard for anyone that hasn’t studied and practiced how to decipher them. It’s just that using a computer kind of forces one to confront those gaps in what should be a fundamental part of highschool education. Math and science classes aren’t just solving problems by wrote memorization or memorizing the periodic table, they are about problem solving. Lots of people fall through the gaps and don’t get that one special teacher who understood this.

This is gonna sound odd, but have you cleaned out the USB port lately? Weird stuff happens when pocket lint collects in there. I thought mine had a dead port until I picked out (with a non-conductive toothpick) the lint I didn’t realize had accumulated.

Not being able to identify a railroad crossing without a gate is a failing of the car not the train. Gated crossings are not guaranteed, nor should they be because they don’t make sense for every situation in which roads and tracks cross.

That’s not true.

The vote doesn’t matter if the governor can just veto it like they did the monorail bill.

Ok maybe veto isn’t the perfect word, but that amounts to what actually happened. Doesn’t matter how the governor killed it. Florida voters wanted the constitutional amendment and Bush killed it by referendum without the voters having any further say.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-jeb-bush-high-speed-rail-20150510-story.html

Then there was the travesty of the Bush/Gore election.

Florida voters know that their vote does not count.

Lacking anything close to empathy, every accusation of this narcissist is an admission.

Yes. Windows is as much a browser based OS these days as Chromebooks are.

Remember when courts declared Microsoft was a monopoly because they bundled their own browser, Internet Explorer, with the operating system? And they did it in a way that made it impossible to completely remove from the OS. Did they learn their lesson? I think they did, just not the lesson we wanted them to learn. Go ahead and try to uninstall Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Dive into the task manager sometime too and you’ll see Edge sub-processes running under a surprising number of other apps. There is no Windows operating system any more, it’s just Internet Explore refactored and rebranded as Edge all the way down. (Obvious hyperbole) At least Chromebooks were up front about it.

because most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP

This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day.

That’s the joke?

You’re making a lot of unfounded assumptions here. Also, either your reading comprehension sucks or you’re being deliberately obtuse by claiming I said any such thing.

If you think doing research doesn’t include asking questions, maybe you should do some better research on doing research.

Wait, you mean after a simple kernel update? Not a release upgrade obviously because arch uses a rolling release cycle?

No way to live.

I’m not sad that Google turned out to be evil because I care about Google. I don’t care about Google. I’m disappointed in no longer being able to search for and find the things online on any search engine.

You just described the categories pages many search engines had before Google. Or proto Web 2.0 bookmark sharing sites like del.icio.us. Sites like Metafilter also existed as a kind of Internet index before everyone was adding reddit.com to their Googling. It’s a laudable idea, but these systems all seem to fall prey to market manipulation in much the same way that SEO helped kill Google.

I got used to windows overwriting the MBR and could generally work around that. But the last time I tried windows/Linux dual boot, it was windows that got caught in a recovery loop after a windows update. Linux was fine. I was impressed at how thoroughly Windows had killed itself on a basic unmolested install. At that point I decided I was done with windows on bare metal unless it was the only thing running. Windows goes in the virtual sandbox or plays by itself.

The elderly clearly have no trouble finding the poles and killing a day to vote in person. Limiting mail-in votes mostly hurts the young working class voters who can’t get time away from work and other responsibilities or may be taking classes in a state several time zones from their home poling site.

I don’t like masturbating either. What’s your point?