With Windows 95 you could move the taskbar to any corner of the screen, and see the seconds when you clicked on the clock.
This technology has been lost to the sands of time. No one at Microsoft knows how to program either of these things anymore. It is now entirely beyond their developer team's expertise to have a movable taskbar or to show a clock with seconds after clicking on the clock.
>For laptops, the answer to this kind of thing should be a standard space where a customer can specify what ports he wants...
Sounds almost like PCMCIA
There will, at a bare minimum, always be two "standard" Linux ones. One Debian-based and one RedHat-based. That said, a lot of the differences are just... derivatives of those two.
First RedHat - In the case of RedHat's relationship to Fedora and Centos Stream, those two are the upstream guinea pigs before things end up in RedHat Enterprise Linux. From there it ends up in Oracle Linux, Rocky, Alma, etc. The "RedHat" ecosystem is similar enough that if you learn one you've learned them all. The reason for the variants is the heart of it, RHEL, is not free (as in beer). But a bulk of the development and focus for this is done by paid RedHat engineers, even for the freely available Fedora and Centos Stream.
The other side of the coin is Debian based, which is the exact opposite of RHEL. Debian is the core, free in both senses of the word, and everything Debian-based is a subsidiary of it* (Ubuntu does enough of its own development that its kindof its own thing).
Because of the fully free nature of it, there will be tons of forks and branches of Debian.
Devuan for example came about because a group of people didn't like systemd and wanted to keep sysvinit.
Ubuntu came about to be a polished Desktop version of Debian, then branched into a Server variant, and now is largely parallel to Debian.
Mint came about because there still wasn't enough polish on Ubuntu or Debian for desktops, and thus there's versions based on both.
In theory, if RedHat went away, that entire side could die, and we'd be left with Debian. In practice RedHat will never die, thus there will always be two.
For the desktop there's kindof already that.
Want easy, polished
Want easy, polished
Those four are the ones that work great out of the box, and easy to Google for things requiring tweaking, and have huge package libraries
It doesn't take spine to yell at corporations, it's easy to get elected yelling at corporations. What does take spine is:
1. building nuclear plants to make energy cheaper for all, and telling the locals and faux environmentalists to go f themselves when they try to stop it with timewaster court cases
2. building solar and wind against current Federal hamstringing
3. keeping natural gas around as a heat source despite hairbrained ideas of moving all cooking and heating to the grid
Anyone with money will be sending their kids to schools that have standards, so luckily this only affects poor San Franciscan families. Religious families also bypass this by sending their kids to religious schools.
Dynamic discounts are only possible with this model - buying bread that will expire in 3 days versus 13 days for ~$1-2 less is a win-win. Customer gets a discount and the store gets to offload expiring goods before being forced to throw them out. Lots of people buy the thing with the furthest date out even if they plan on using it within the next week.
The current expiration dates are in inconsistent locations (even on the same product from the same brand) which is difficult for limited visibility people. Also consider how many times they do things like black text on red background. Pointing the phone at a QR code and having it read aloud solves this for these people.
And finally, I hope someday you do find out exactly what it's like to have limited visibility while trying to read things like labels, and someone replies to you with "sucks to be you".
You missed the point, he is saying desk sharing is superior to "hoteling". Hoteling is when there are desks that are basically first come first serve each day, you unpack your stuff at the desk and pack up at the end of the day, like you would in a hotel. The Google plan is more like a timeshare, two people sharing the same desk but on different days. If each employee gets their own set of locked drawers it could probably even work.
It won't be a return to ICE, it would be worse - if the grid cannot handle demand and the typical alternate sources of energy (gasoline engines, natural gas) have been outlawed, the people will be so desperate for energy they will elect politicians who promise to stabilize the grid by building a fleet of coal power plants within a year (by suspending environmental regulations).
I look at it the other way - interacting via social media is so standard and easy, it is *better* than alternative ways such as a contact form or email. The two most useful are Twitter and Youtube - I follow all the government agencies and politicians that pertain to me, and can easily interact with them/their staff when needed. Initially that was all I had a Twitter account for.
As for Youtube - the NY Senate puts all their hearings on Youtube for anyone to watch. State agencies put out instructional / public safety videos on there. They could put those videos directly on their websites but it is inferior both in reach (people have to go to government agency websites) and cost (why re-invent a video service when one exists and costs taxpayers nothing to use).
There are many reasons for government on social media. Two categories for it:
-Government run accounts: get information out to people easily (transit agencies on delays, or there's new procedures for license renewal, parks/beaches closing due to weather, etc) and in a manner that allows for feedback; also users can report problems and it can get to someone in the agency easily - it's like a free no-frills ticketing system, with the added benefit of "customers" (taxpayers) self-grouping their issues under one thread, and when the official account replies other people having the issue know the agency is aware and won't bother calling/emailing about it, saving everyone time.
-Government employees as regular users: same reason an employee of any other company might, to solicit information from people more knowledgeable on a subject.
That said, TikTok is completely useless for all of that.
"There... I've run rings 'round you logically" -- Monty Python's Flying Circus
