“Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests [...]

People who haven't touched Google with a ten-foot pole for years still "google" stuff in general conversation because that's what people generally understand. People who never used Twitter (or that modern renamed far-right bot paradise) talk about stuff that got "tweeted".

So no... associating colloquial use of terms with actual habits doesn't work well.

Trust the slob! Learn to love the slob! Slob is life!!

We are talking about 40k here, so dying will probably be the nice outcome you hope for...

it’s getting more prevalent as more stuff (especially servers) run on Linux [...] Linux’s days of living in “security through obscurity” are over"

Servers are primarily running Linux for decades. So any security through obscurity would be gone for as long, if it even existed ever...

though I’ll admit to not having tested that sort of thing with Wine/Proton installed

The more primitive the better the chances. And there are some really primitive cases of ransonware perfectly happy with running through Wine and encrypting your files. So limiting Wine's file access (or better running it as a separate unpriviledged user with no access to anything but your games) is always a good idea.

GNOME guys complaining about someone trying to force unilateral decisions upon them and being totally uncoopertaive must be satire...

Don't Look Up was a documentary...

You wouldn't believe the secondary costs caused by thawing salt. And then there's the primary cost of operating vehicle park to spread a lot of salt each winter.

Although general streets would not be my first choice (you should start with bridges where corrosion is even more of an issue) every example of heated street I saw was just a matter of "yeah, simple math says this makes sense".

PS: And that's obviously not car-specific even. Every newly build bike lane should incorporate this idea. Modern bike and pedestrian bridges doubly so.

PPS: For reference: new bicycle-bridge in Germany... 16 million € to build, of which the added heating is a very small fraction (300k).

Apparently this is about neither DRM

It's not about the DRM people think about... but the Direct Rendering Manager

Germans are still suffering from having to integrate another failed quasi-soviet state more than 30 years later, so you couldn't pay them enough for taking Königsberg back.

An immutable OS is fixed and mounted non-writable. Every update you get, every program you install is handled on top of it via containers or filesystem overlays so the underlying OS is untouched. Basically the same concept you know from smartphones or other devices with a "reset to factory settings" function. No matter how hard you screw up your system, you can always reset to the base OS, either by granulary deactivating things installed on top, or by a reset to the working base OS.

No... the Crowdstrike debacle primarily shows the dangers of today's corporate culture in software development.

Ship as fast as possible, fix issues later if necessary...

"More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as ~~MAGA~~ Believers of Tax Cuts, Deregulation and Corruption"

Fixed that headline...