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I have the PayPal on Firefox problem. Once I see it, I just give up and use a credit card instead.

Off on a bit of a tangent, I 100% agree with you, and that was probably the best feature of California's Prop 13 from 1978. After it passed, the projected income to Sacramento was …

You have to get acquired by Microsoft first.

Thank you! This was fun.

I had to learn WordPress to help a local org, so I went ahead and did my own blog for fun: https://www.gerisch.org/

Same. I am thankful that this sort of article shows up here.

I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than a minnow in Microsoft's ocean.

My brother went looking for an N100 with the quietest fan, and gave it to me for Christmas two years ago. It has been an excellent little desktop with no discernable noise that I c…

I was hoping to see a mention of Odex 1 by Odetics. I was working in a printed circuit board factory at the time (1983), and we got to build boards for it. Later on, there was a de…

I donate to FutureMe.org because I like the service, and want to see it continue. I used to be able to schedule a monthly donation through Paypal (I think), but something happened,…

Yes, and in my opinion, this was what killed Slashdot.

I agree with you, and think that if Slashdot were to do a rebirth, it might succeed. Of course, they'd have to figure out what went wrong and put in mechanisms to prevent that. But…

I switched my default search engine in my browser to perplexity.ai a few months ago and am super happy with it. The only time I use Google anymore is to specifically visit www.goog…

I always liked that on SuSE, I had my choice with YaST of either the Ncurses interface or the GUI X Window System. The functionality was identical, but sometimes a GUI is pleasant.…

Dude, you're taking the easy way out. Please go purist and pull the wiring boards out of the closet.

Thank you; I didn't know that Brave has a peer-to-peer sync.

Thank you. I was unaware of this.

I'd like to ask if there is a bookmark sync function and plugin sync function in any of these alternatives. It does seem to me that Mozilla corporation management has become corrup…

Okay, that actually made me laugh. Thanks.

My mom had subscribed to Scientific American for more than twenty years (maybe 30), but for this very reason stopped her subscription a few years ago. It had turned from informing …

I'm not a fan of email + magic link. I know of two security gateways which "click" on the link to check to see if it ends up going to a known malicious website. So then the end use…

I learned COBOL in college just to learn it, and I loved the verbosity of it. Verbosity was kind of the point: if you name your variables properly, you have self-documenting code. …

Agreed about learning bookkeeping. I was a programmer on a minicomputer decades ago, and when the bookkeeper spoke debits and credits at me, I stared back like a deer in the headli…

I'm quite happy with my PHEV. I charge at night at home, and have even gone a whole month without needing to get gasoline (in town driving only). But when I need to drive a long di…

Yes, generally the taxpayer pays. I work for a County local government. When we lose a case, we have our litigation insurance pay. Then the insurance policy rate immediately goes u…