Your comment made me dig out my BHS, since i had not counted in Hebrew since my Masters 20 years ago. Biblical Hebrew also spells out numbers, but in a slightly mixed order of the 2 systems: six and forty thousand and five of hundreds (Num 1:21), nine and fifty thousand and three of hundreds ( 1:23 ).
i use orangepi prime boards in production as remote NIDS. i used Armbian (a great debian porting project that does what the maker should have done ) until orange released their Debian 10 img. I put an endurance rated sdcard in those pis and they run like the little pink bunny! Love these little orangepis. I have tried a handful of other boards ( beagle, raspberry, banana , have a whole stack. too many to remember) but the oranges are solid. On a lot of these little SoCs, you can use the raspberry pi gpio software since many of these boards follow the same gpio standard & plug in/out.
my first thought: they'll collect money from sites to disable adblockers and other ext. I gave up on Mozilla 5 or so years ago because they ARE sneaky about being corporate sellouts and anti privacy. At least the browsers i use now don't PRETEND to be privacy focused.
can't the browser download the webpage that contains code to scan 127.0.0.1 then forward the data back to the server? this would also bypass vpn protection.
the real issue, is that when enough people consume a service, it becomes a 'utility', and you are penalized if you don't use it. As such, if a percentage of the population uses something, it should be regulated as a 'utility'. Copyright laws should reflect this also.
Most jobs I've seen (even outside of tech ) require familiarity with Windows and Office, ie. basic skills linked to one platform.
Google is used enough and thus influential enough, it should be classified a public utility and forced to comply with strict utility laws ( which requires government approval to modify prices ).
IANAL, but I'm sure there are layers that could contrive the social penalties of not using Google service.
People make this logical leap in their brains without recognizing it when they use a service for years and rely on it for their daily information, then turn on the high paid exec's who are trying to squeeze a dollar from every user. Red Hat, Reddit, Google, Microsoft, Comcast, all need reigning in because of their necessarily high required utility in civilization.
used a phison 2tb nvme on windows 10 for a year before trying a Samsung nvme. Had pitiful performance from the phison (drop to 0MB/s on larger copies) , partly due to Windows no doubt. But the Samsung is so much better. I credit the Samsung controller. so yea, i heard of them ( name is clearly on the controller chip ) and then i bought better.
i gave up on firefox when i couldn't stop it from connecting to Google on a network device i was working on. Removing all the links from the advanced settings made it fail to start. That's when I realized how hypocritical they are. ( arm64 firefox-esr.) Even the latest chromium on arm64 connects to Google almost daily. i use epiphany-browser for that project now. no unwanted internet traffic from epiphany.
I have a bundle because it's cheaper than buying the Internet service by itself. My bundle includes phone but I don't have the house phone connected to it. I also have a cable sports package to watch F1. It's also very annoying to have to search 4 or more streaming apps to find the movie or show I want to watch when Comcast has 90% of it. Cable still provides the biggest variety and there's 3 of us in the family. When Comcast works like it's supposed to, it's impressive.
Until we can say we understand the body completely, we're certainly can't be dismissive of ALL pain. As a chronic pain sufferer and a spouse of a medical professional, we both have observed that hubris in doctors is still a serious problem in the medical profession.
Having just installed Debian 11xfce on a Dell Intel i5 laptop, and fighting with the power applet crashing b/c power manager fails to start, I'm having flashbacks to 20 years ago with the same problems. Still having to add nomodeset to grub for the screen to work has been stopping people from using linux for 20 years.
Seriously, if a fresh install won't boot, how's a newbie not going to feel overwhelmed. For those same 20 years, people have been saying to me ( even IT people ) that they'd like to try linux but don't have the time to troubleshoot everything. Even if they sink a few hours into getting the screen to work, laptops still burn through the battery and they go back to Windows since they use it on battery.
I use both Windows and linux, and with Windows quality crashing, people keep proclaiming the year of linux. But there's still a long way to improve linux before it gets as good as poor quality Windows.
I paid one $US dollar for a book at a yard sale and later found a 20 euro note inside. I'll never spend it ( not in EU ) but it was a nice surprise since I'd never seen one.
I disabled Windows Defender using Group policies when it was erasing data from my samba3 server. Group policy is the only way to control windows any more.
Always wanted to do this on my wife's Kia. But the head unit is so slow and the touchscreens die after only a few years so I've got a box of 3 of these bad oems and finally installed an after market unit.