*laughs in Australian*

35 degrees is a merely a warm summer day; I grew up in heatwaves without air conditioning.

That said, I would have low tolerance for a Canadian winter.

Yes, probably.

Mel Brooks is releasing Spaceballs 2 in time for his one hundredth birthday. And good on him! Do you think he gives two shits what Gen-Zee thinks about political correctness?

Well, it is Oracle.

The company is infamous for buying Sun Microsystems and shutting down the OpenSolaris project, inspiring the forks LibreOffice and MariaDB, fiercely protecting the 'Java' trademark in spite of OpenJDK releases by other parties and letting OpenSPARC wither and die.

Microsoft adding 'phone' features to their OS, Lumia is dead already.

Wanting to compete with iOS and Android when they hoisted the white flag a decade ago is just sad.

Work recently bought us a new model of bluetooth headsets.

Which works well to block out the cacophony, you just escalate with your own white noise.

But yeah this return to work policy where no one talks to any of their colleagues in cubicle land because they are headphoned up and oblivious - may as well work from home...

Maybe I'll buy one of those 'teach yourself' audiobooks. No one would be the wiser until I start speaking, say, Latvian!

Maybe it's Gen-X nostalgia but the 1990s was a golden age; cats snoozing atop Trinitron monitors.

I, for one, welcomed our new feline overlords.

'Record' temperatures in the high 30s is a warm summer day for us in Australia.

Grape vines, like humans, get thirsty. You need to keep them hydrated.

It doubles as an oven!

With the appropriate heat dissipation, you can cook a thanksgiving dinner under the hood of your truck on the way to grandma's house.

Thus Dell was correct at the time. Apple was suffering an identity crisis in the mid 1990s before Jobs returned. Brilliant people, umpteen side projects that never stuck because of dysfunctional management.

Ironically, they did have the prototype modern iMac back in 1989 with SE/30 running A/UX. Had they stayed the course with A/UX 4 ported to PowerPC (converging with AIX), they could have sidestepped the complete mess that became Taligent and Copland.

IIRC, carnivorous plants such as the Venus Fly Trap are toxic to humans.

But theoretically, yes, one could breed a cultivar that pre-ingests protein.

As an omnivore, I don't mind a vegetarian option.

But why do we need to pretend with meat substitutes?

Phoronix posts some decent stuff but a lot of it is clickbait, trying to taint Linus as some sort of dictatorial sociopath. The kernel has survived more than three decades because its founder still gives a damn about code quality.

A couple of dozen contributors, one big merge and the maintainer probably didn't write or review the helper function that Linus got annoyed about. This right before the release.

Just because it compiles and 'works' doesn't mean you should ship it and as a maintainer, he'll do a more thorough job next time.

What OS does Google use internally?

Because if you wanted to 'dog-food' you'd sternly encourage pretty much every employee to use Chrome OS, hence the Linux and Android containers, with the option to spin up a virtualized container for specialty work, including Windows 11 (whose support someone unofficially demoed on a Pixel phone.)

Steam OS then seemed like a perk for their employees but it's built on Wine, so as an incentive to get whatever Windows apps the company uses running sans W11.

I think they have a nostalgia for the IBM ones, before Big Blue sold their business to Lenovo.

Well, they did release a new Fantastic 4 movie recently featuring Sue and Johnny Storm. Maybe he's their devilish cousin.

Anyhow, the company's other co-founders are a second Roman and Aleksey, both also under criminal investigation.