This isn't really a Windows vs Linux issue as far as I'm aware. It was a bad driver update made by a third party. I don't see why Linux couldn't suffer from the same kind of issue.
We should dunk on Windows for Windows specific flaws. Like how Windows won't let me reinstall a corrupted Windows Store library file because admins can't be trusted to manage Microsoft components on their own machine.
I'll give you a hint: Arr!
I would guess because Amtrak isn't being subsidized enough. A lot of government money is spent on building and maintaining roads. If the consumer had to pay for that directly in the form of toll roads instead of through taxes then Amtrak would be much more competitive.
.localhost is already reserved for the loopback, per RFC 2606, but I agree with you in general. A small network shouldn't have to have a $10-15/year fee to be compliant if they don't want to use a domain outside their network.
As other posters have mentioned, .lan .home .corp and such are so widely used that ICANN can't even sell them without causing a technical nightmare.
Yes, you're right, RFC 6762 proposes reserving .local for mDNS. I was not aware of this until you brought it up, hence the dangers of using using TLDs not specifically designated for internal use.
I find myself commenting more frequently on Lemmy as well. I attribute it to there being less comments in general so less has already been said. By the time a post shows my reddit feed there's already hundreds of comments and the discussion is already pretty well laid out. At that point I don't really have anything meaningful to add.
There's a variation of Pop Goes the Weasel:
"All around the cobbler's bench The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey thought 'twas all in fun, Pop! Goes the weasel."
So the monkey is the victim of the popping by the weasel for being chased. I'm not sure if there's a deeper meaning to the mulberry bush though.
Would've seen it coming if you sat in front of a mirror.
I expected this to be a satirical article for pumped hydro.
Yeah, that's why they want change.
I'm glad I'm not the only person to immediately think of the Joywire from RimWorld.
We just got vertical align last month. There's so many things they should be working on but are too busy trying to add more ads or monetization features.
I think the web is just too long in the tooth at this point but there's nothing we can do.