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Thanks, I was wondering what made this woman liable for her mother's care.

The “standard” is ostensibly the HTML spec and such, but in reality whatever Chrome (and Firefox/Safari) renders is the standard.

This is why it's vitally important to use FIrefox rather than any Chromium-based browser (even ostensibly "degoogled" ones), BTW: we need a robust diversity of browser engines to prevent Google from having hegemony over web standards.

but isn’t that inefficient given that most of what people do on computers is browsing the web?

Why, yes, yes it is!

And now you understand why these days we use multi-core, multi-gigahertz processors to do a lot of fundamentally the same things we used to accomplish with single-core processors with speeds on the order of megahertz.

(Just wait 'til you find out about WebAssembly, LOL.)

Are you suggesting something like LineageOS is a better choice?

(Seriously asking: I've got a new-to-me Pixel that I'm looking to switch to a degoogled-ish ROM on, and Graphene and Lineage were the two front-runners.)

Not sure about the "nightly" part (as opposed to beta or stable), but yes.

I guess it would seem weird in an adults house so i won’t buy any.

Relevant XKCD:

You made me immediately go find the recipe, you jerk!

We can understand the context of the curriculum goals and still realize that the question was asinine and the teacher is a dipshit.

That dipshit's not "the left;" he's a troll. Real leftists held their noses and voted for Democrats.

If you don't understand the concept of harm reduction, that's your defect, not anybody else's!

In the 1700s, "well-regulated" was a synonym for "well-trained."

Considering that the point of the Second Amendment was to enable a "well regulated militia" to maintain "the security of a free state," military-relevant weapons ought to be the ones most protected by it.

The explicit goal was to enable the populace to defend itself militarily, and you're not doing that with a handgun (at least not effectively compared to using an assault rifle).

Well, yeah. NOW of all times is exactly when the fascists would want to disarm the populace.

Anyone else get the feeling this is more sanewashing by Reuters? I think it's less likely that the staff was actually "baffled" and more likely that somebody didn't want the news to print that they were "irate," "exasperated," "dismayed," or something like that instead.

No, but he's right.

It'd have to be a long-distance relationship, because those aren't sold in the US.

The main issue I see is that the gulf between capacity and transfer speed is now so vast with mechanical drives that restoring the array after drive failure and replacement is unreasonably long. I feel like you'd need at least two parity drives, not just one, because letting the array be in a degraded state for multiple days while waiting for the data to finish copying back over would be an unacceptable risk.

/S

CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

Spoken like a person who doesn't own a floppy drive. 😞

My 2000s-era cars don't* have tape decks, unfortunately. I say "unfortunately" because they also don't have line in, USB, or Bluetooth, so their AM/FM/CD car audio units are, in 2025, objectively inferior to the AM/FM/cassette ones in my 1990s-era cars.

Present tense because I still own cars from the '90s and 2000s. I refuse to own any car capable of violating my privacy, which is every new car.