This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes.

"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"

Patty pan squash grows like crazy in most of the UK. If you live near a farm with cows or horses, get yourself as much manure as you can lay your hands on and dig it in well, and you will be eating the damn things until you're sick of them.

It'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.

> First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins.

Why would that be difficult?

I love services like that. I love entering data into them! In fact, I love it so much that I wrote some scripts to do just that...

Stuff like 6502s and Z80s are a bit like little single-cylinder engines - the world will move onto all sorts of interesting new places, but something somewhere will always be powered by a wee Briggs & Stratton that starts first pull of the string, and we'll be glad of it.

We'll always need tiny cores, but it's worth noting that RISC-V can squeeze down to pretty small sizes and is so much nicer to use. Notably you can go smaller than a 68k or 8086.

I suspect 32-bit RISC-V cores will become the minimum unit of processor for new designs. Not a meaningful cost increase over say a 6502 (or ARM) to build, but the convenience of having mainstream compiler support and that kind of thing does make a difference in the cost of building a product.

Less transistors does mean less power too. I could see applications where that matters.

I've found them to be rock solid stable, and of course unlike AMD they are accelerated.

NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide compute acceleration in Linux.

> Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks

In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as rude as it sounds.

Its primary function in the ecosystem is providing long thin sticky plants for children or childlike adults to stick to each other's clothing without the victim noticing, and seeing how long it takes them to figure it out.

I found your comment amusing, which is why I vouched for it. Otherwise all your other recent comments seem to be dead for whatever reason, meaning only people like me who have showdead=1 can see them. Just to let you know.

I went through and vouched for the other comments. There is no way that they should be automatically dead.

I emailed dang, the account was shadowbanned for flamebait, and he manually unkilled a lot of their comments.

I think those and the little burrs are different species. Galium aparine Vs Arctium minus.

Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter?

It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.

Cockleburrs? They seem to grow well in the US Midwest (at least about 40 miles west of Chicago.) We also get stick-tights which are much smaller.

As for my "lawn", I mow whatever grows at the highest height I can set my mower. No fertilizer, no toxins. Whatever grows is appreciated. Except thistles, cockleburrs and stick-tights. I have a variety of grasses, American violets, clover, ajuga and lots of other stuff. I also pull portulaca and add it to my salads.

> a cohesive desktop OS

What would that look like, then?

> some prolific volunteer commenting on a bug report there speaks in a manner that comes off as brusque or dismissive

Maybe they are being brusque and dismissive. Maybe they're allowed to. I know I use a somewhat different tone when I'm filing bugs against a project I've been submitting bug reports and patches to for ten years, run by a developer who I've known personally for 20 ;-)