Of course if you get rid of capitalism then you get a different systemic problem, massive shortfalls in production, making everyone worse off. Much like democracy, capitalism is the worst system except for all of the others.

No, it's not just Apple. Just off the top of my head...

- Amazon Kindles were micro-USB until recently
- I have several rechargeable lanterns, purchased within the past five years, which are micro-USB

Must be the new Pope!

I use the magsafe on my laptop. I almost always use the laptop in the same place and only charge it there, so it's not getting mixed into my collection and picked back out, and the magsafe is somewhat easier to fumble into place than USB-C. If I was using it long enough somewhere different to need to charge it, I'd grab a USB-C (probably already nearby), rather than collecting the magsafe from where it's set up.

Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the day to watch them all.

The writer certainly has a... unique... outlook on this, I suppose. But I can't say I ever hear anyone say "gosh, there just isn't enough time available for me to watch everything I want to watch!"

No, what I hear is - "why are these streaming services putting out so much absolute crapola nowadays?"

Au contraire -- quite a few police have a well-known back door that you can exploit with nothing more than an envelope full of $100 bills.

I mean, come on. Where's

KKAAAAHHHHNNNNNNN!!!!!

They could include things like special lines at immigration, rather than just visa requirements. Arriving in Amsterdam with an EU passport is much less of a hassle than arriving with a US passport, but they both count the same on this report. Then there's the question of whether you need a permit to stay indefinitely, or just the passport.

Ned Stark tried that - and, well, we all saw how that turned out for him.

Real 'Muricans don't leave the ol' US of A. Anyone who regularly travels beyond driving range of their home town is suspicious, frankly.

(Meanwhile, I got the extra-thick passport booklet and have made a good try at filling it with stamps.)

I had several of those! They worked really well, and were only ten bucks I think.

Main reason I liked them was I had a few right-angle MagSafe 1 chargers (from old Airs I think), which didn't appear to be an option with MagSafe 2.

Include an add-on charging brick by default, but give people the option at purchase time to save $30 and select "do not include a charging brick"?

I don't know that I've ever seen such an obvious demonstration of just how many old geezers are on Slashdot.

(and I say that as a fellow old person haha)

I suspect the idea they are hinting at is that ancient yeast might have been living on (then-livable) Mars and got meteorite-blasted over to Earth, and survived the trip. For a temporary trip like that, survival is sufficient.

In my experience, you have to do that for Linux installers to even see the damn drive at all!