Strangely enough, almost everything you wrote could have been written by me. Bought a Framework laptop, decided to use Firefox on it, no particular problems with it.

I take that back; I did run into a site (can't remember now what it was) that told me I needed to update my browser, when what they actually wanted me to do was switch to Chrome/Chromium.

In memory rather than a database that's stored on disk, like Postgres.

See subject line.

I'm surprised there's not more discussion about this phone having the first Apple cellular modem. That would seem to be a huge deal for Apple and Qualcomm. There's probably a reason it's first appearance is in a lower-quantity phone. Think of it as a beta-release.

Getting married: move in with someone Having kids: Volunteer in a job where you will be around children, such as Boy/Girl Scouts? Try watching your relative's children for a few hours, or a weekend? Joining military: Try out a boot camp?

I see "Grenfell Tower" and "Grenfell Tower Fire" as Wikipedia links. Typo?

200,000 * 1MB != 250 MB. You're off by a factor of 1,000.

Ars Technica is higher quality, but the climate deniers are present there too. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fscienc...

Damn, I should have saved a Mod point for you. Well said.

I just returned from a cruise from Amsterdam to the Black Sea, and was appalled at the number of people smoking in Eastern Europe, way more prevalent than in Western Europe.

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can mark Monty Python jokes as troll?

Yes, web pages often tell me that I need to use "St" instead of "Street". Huh?

My daughter released a helium-filled balloon from southern California as part of a school activity in 1999 when she was 5. It set a record (for that school at least), and was found 1,700 miles away in Kearney Nebraska after floating over the Rocky Mountains.

I highly recommend Ars Technica (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F) Also interesting is Sabine Hossenfelder's video blog on Youtube.

Android 7 was released more than 5 years ago. Why didn't they test something much newer? Android 11 has much better privacy controls than Android 7.