...they've fallen apart because the outside world has almost no places left where people can freely gather.
I'm sorry that has been your experience; it has not been mine. I can walk to several wonderful parks, I can bike (or take a $3 bus) to the beach, and I have world-class cycling destinations out my door.
Alternately, I have three or four libraries within about a 20m walking distance.
That said, yes, I do live in a high CoL area, so perhaps that was the point you were making.
In this case presumably the MTB weighs more, which helps on downhills.
I think there's a whole literature out there on rolling resistance as it relates to tire size and pressure as a function of road quality --- for really nice pavement/velodrome, skinny tires at high pressure win, but for rougher surfaces (e.g., chipseal or less than perfect pavement) lower pressures can be advantageous.
I don't think this level of snark is exactly called for in his instance --- it's not some fundamental right to consume Netflix content. If I want to, I pay their price, simple as that.
People often talk about media consumption the way the left (rightfully so!) talk about housing or healthcare --- as a fundamental human right.
Mini DisplayPort wasn't introduced until 2008 (by Apple), and the T450 wasn't introduced until 2015, so not exactly "Laptops in 2000." But I get the sentiment.
While I agree with the sentiment, it's not exactly true --- a good job in a high paying field should offer ACA-compliant health plans, which are required to have an out-of-pocket maximum. But yeah --- do everything right except sign up for decent insurance, and it can be a world of shit. Which is pretty embarrassing for my country.
Credit scores are often required for things that don't necessarily incur debit --- it can be a requirement for renting, and for credit cards (which, if paid off monthly, don't accumulate debt).
The credit system is far from perfect, but this is a step in the right direction it seems; I view it as a statement on "healthcare as a right," rather than as "good credit scores as a right."
RTGs aren't radioactive-specific, they are just a solid state way of turning a temperature difference into electricity. The better way to do this (at scale) is e.g. a steam engine, which is what big power plants do.
Lot of comments about RTGs, but I don't think that's what OP is asking. RTGs convert heat to electricity, same as a conventional power plants --- they just do it in a solid state way instead of steam. In RTGs it doesn't matter where the heat comes from; they are not really analogous to solar cells, as the title asks.
In fact, there are consumer products that use the same technology --- you can buy a little electric fan that sits on top of a wood stove and, once up to temp, will start spinning. The electricity is generated by the thermal gradient using heat from the stove, essentially the same as an RTG.
Just because something is available for free doesn't mean it's better for all use cases. There are cases where Oracle will perform better than Postgres (and vice versa of course).
And there's a business case for finger pointing --- security issue with your open source DB install? It's either your fault (configuration), or the fault of some possibly volunteer engineer (bug). But if you pay enough, the whole thing is Oracle's problem, and you can tell investors with a straight face that it's not your fault. And Oracle are big enough that it's an easy decision to defend should something go wrong (which is something of a self fulfilling prophecy, but that's the way it is).
But yeah, whenever I need a database it's Postgres :)
One practical thing I like about Linux is that you can control the GUI/window manager independently of the rest of the system. So I can use i3wm, a tiling window manager, and my interface to the computer will be the same --- I can upgrade my computer, I can install a new distro, whatever, and I'll always have the UI I want.
I copied my .zshrc from my Linux laptop to my work Mac, and yep, it all feels the same. A few minor differences (ls on Linux will allow arguments after the files, on Mac it won't) and a few things to learn (I never really used open on Linux, but it's essential on Mac), and the clipboard interface is different (xclip vs. pbcopy --- but that doesn't really count, since it's a GUI thing).
Logo centered in picture? "Must be ad!!!"
Logo off-center? "OP this belongs in mildlyinfuriating."