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The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people. I don't think traditional desktop operating systems are best for most people. I believe a Chromebook, or an iPad with a keyb…

It's all part of the war on general computing. This dystopian nightmare is coming to desktop operating systems too. See the age verification stuff that's all of a sudden being push…

When I created an account on LinkedIn, a long time ago, I used the web. When it asked if I wanted to invite other people from my list of contacts, I clicked yes. I thought it would…

The music was so loud from my monitor's speakers that I nearly jumped out of my skin and rushed to close it, and my volume isn't even turned up much!

My experience is the opposite: Bose hardware and sound quality seems excellent to me. This may be subjective. Bose might sound good to some people's ears and less good to other peo…

I wish I was sufficiently dexterous to use your razor thin scrollbars. :(

ZZ will save the file (if there are changes) and quit. Try it as an alternative to :wq.

But because they had an existing body of code that was not class based, it would be more of a re-write (C#) versus a refactor (Go). I don't understand this reasoning at all, and I'…

Speaking as both a D&D DM and player, the "sub-optimal game play" makes the campaign more fun, more diverse, and offers more thoroughly enjoyable role-playing and problem solving o…

Our contribution to the small web: https://kagi.com/smallweb After opening this web page, I pressed down arrow a few times to scroll the page. At first, I didn't understand why it …

Thanks to Crostini, Chromebooks are also excellent local computing devices.

After over 30 years using Windows, I finally gave up on it last year. It was a difficult choice, but clearly, it's just going to keep getting worse. These days most people should b…

The solution to these issues isn't to simply not have those features, but to make it possible to toggle those features on/off.

Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 d…

The last time I looked at The Lounge, the installation and configuration seemed pretty involved, not to mention ongoing maintenance. Has this improved recently?

All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale. No, they're not.

Most of Apple's Weather app works OK for me, except the precipitation map/animation takes ages to load, if it loads at all (it's about 50/50). I usually hop over to AccuWeather ins…

At $WORK we use Mozilla Rhino for some JavaScript processing. We tested the normal loop vs. the clever loop. Performance-wise, the normal loop blew the doors off the clever loop.

How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term? Far more aggressive progressive taxation.