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Comment Re:Insane (Score 2) 33

My first thought. They must have close to 100 million customers. So this works out to about ten cents per customer. Wow, that's some punitive fine! Just another example of how "capture theory" is the norm in the US these days. The FDA is captured by Big Pharma. The SEC is captured by Wall Street. And the FCC is captured by the Big Carriers.

Comment apple MacBook , aluminium, 2008 (Score 1) 288

mine oldest but still valide is an Apple notebook, aluminium, Intel 2008. Long ago I maxed the RAM , put SSD in it, and I switched to Ubuntu ; I changed batteries twice (with chinese replacements... Apple won't sell me anything) but they do not work well; so currently it is mostly a desktop machine, used by my chilldren for homework, web browsing, social networks, casual gaming.

Comment Re:Too many Olympic swimming pools to count? (Score 3, Insightful) 82

74 quadrillion millimeters.

Average ant length = 3.7mm https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmisfitanimals.com%2Fants... (for whatever that source is worth)

a.k.a. 74 billion kilometers; to put in perspective: that's many times the distance Sun-Pluto (about 6 billion km) ; or (as of April 2020) Voyager 1 was at a distance of 22.3 billion kilometers from the Sun.

Comment Re:Fedora has limited usefulness itself (Score 1) 122

Besides, UEFI is a bad idea done badly.

I always assumed that the real reason why UEFI was introduced, was to preserve Microsoft's monopoly by attempting to destroy the ability to dual boot operating systems on PC hardware, while also giving it just enough superficial flashing lights, that excuses would be made for it as "innovation," by the same group of treasonous idiots who think that systemd deserves to exist.

Comment I'm still using Firefox...mostly. (Score 1) 408

After Firefox got rid of the old addon format, I went to Pale Moon for what felt like a year, but was probably considerably less; given the nature of the cave I live in, time moves very strangely for me these days.

I kept Firefox around though, mainly because PM became incapable of posting comments to YouTube, and when I posted said comments, I started noticing how much faster and less laggy video loading and playing was with FF.

So now with the new computer, I've mainly only used Firefox, and am enjoying the greater responsiveness. I agree with anyone who claims that Mozilla are arrogant , but I also don't care much, because I'm aware that wanting me to live in my pod, eat my bugs and shut up is what [b][i]every[/i][/b] corporation wants me to do these days; Mozilla are not unique in that regard.

I do not like the twenty first century.

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