Go re-watch S1 TNG. It is not as good as you remember.

I did not check out the later seasons, I'm going to pretend they are still golden, but is Dis better than what I saw in S1? Oh yes, it's not even a contest.

Hardly. It's better than Voyager, and certainly better than S1 TNG.

I'm pretty sure that's Wifi 5.

Wifi 6 isn't much of an upgrade. Wifi 6e might be, but is also much more expensive.

Do you vote in online polls?
  - Yes
  - All of the above

It's true that people will pirate if there's no other way, but I don't agree about the spoiler thing. I've not watched the Mandalorian nor seen any spoilers online beyond a few memes about baby Yoda.

It's so far not like Game of Thrones where spoilers popped up in newspaper headlines. That was really annoying.

Mind, my sister really wants me to see the Mandalorian, enough so she handed me a memstick with episodes and installed Disney+ on my TV. So far I've used that Disney+ to watch Ducktales episodes and that boring Pixar Souls movie instead. So it's possible my eyes just glaze over whenever I see a Mandalorian spoiler, as I apparently have zero interest.

Apple has the T2 chip, which has been shipping for a number of years now.

Now, to keep Linux healthy on the laptop, what you can do is buy laptops that officially supports Linux instead of Macbooks or whatever. Then you're not supporting manufactures with an interest in locking down their platforms.

I got an annoying "free Apple TV for 3 months" ad on my iPhone. It didn't simply go away with a click either, it kept bugging me until I went into the settings and told it to quit.

OpenType is indeed a wrapper for TrueType and CFF (but CFF doesn't feature PostScript, that's Type 1 fonts). Variable fonts are based on Apple's TrueType GX, but developed further and extended to work with CFF glyphs, (and stuffed into an OpenType container, which is really a TrueType container with a new name).

Multiple-Master font is indeed similar, the same basic idea of allowing font weight and such to be adjusted by end users. I wasn't aware of that, but when you said that Variable fonts are more correctly called proportional or scaleable fonts, I disagree. "Variable fonts" are proportional and scalable, like all vector fonts, but that's not the big news, no, it's that the end user can select the italic angle, font weight and such.

I've not heard of the Google Noto fonts, though I did embed a four megabyte font from Google into a PDF viewer as a fallback. That was an awesome font, it had basically every glyph. It might have been a Noto font for all I know.

Variable fonts is actually something new. It's an extension to the OpenType format which was introduced in 2016 by the usual suspects (Adobe, Apple, MS, Google), which lets you have multiple font variants in a single file. Likely made to let web authors replace multiple font files with a single font, so to reduce download size.

On second thought, Halo has "Combat Evolved" as a subtitle, so he's not referring to the Custom Edition.

Doubt the marketing team was thinking about acronyms when they came up with that. They were probably worried "Halo" wasn't descriptive enough.

I think he's talking about the Custom Edition. Never tried it out, but it was released for free to all owners of the PC version.

Incidentally I played the original PC Halo recently. There's no run button. No run button! A huge contrast to Doom Eternal, or Brutal Doom, which are the other two games I've played during the corona affair. Oh, and Blade Runner.

I had a PC with working USB on Windows before the iMac and Windows 98. When the iMac came I recall the press predicting that USB floppy dives would become a thing, but USB was already a thing.

But what really made USB popular was USB memory sticks. Those were damn useful, and the early ones even worked with my Windows 95.

The notion that USB would have failed if Apple hadn't endorsed it... is silly. You see, there was no real alternative. RS232 is clunky, Floppies are clunky, CD burners are clunky, PS2 is mouse/keyboard only. Firewire was the closest, but even back then I recall people noting how FW having full access to a computer's memory was a huge security hole, and FW controllers were more complicated and power-hungry. USB was cheap enough that it was common on PCs before Windows 98 came out, FW could not compete there though eventually became fairly common too, but by that time USB was already entrenched and good enough.

Loved that movie. Liked it better than the games.

I'm not poor, and I've done most of my programming in other languages.

That does not change the fact that Javascript is going from strength to strength. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it is dying.

These sorts of attacks have been conducted against more than just NPM.

Meanwhile Javascript is getting more popular, not less, to the extent is had started to to challenge other languages outside the safety of the browser. Not at all the sign of a dying language, IOW WebAssembly may end up having less impact than you think.