So a post-apocalyptic fantasy rural frontier/urban civilization center split is fully within the realm of.possibility.
With US cities and states beibg pretty autonomous most things considered (for now at leas), it could easily happen without the US splitting as far as the world map goes.
Honestly, Chromium seems to have the basic features like history and passwords figured out way better than Firefox (or rather, Chrome does), while stripping most of the junk away, as it luckily happens to be proprietary Google bullshit.
Firefox has a bunch of telemetry and bloat, but the fact that my only real dealbreaker for a browser is quality adblock makes Firefox pretty much my only "vanilla" choice.
Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they're long out of patent protection and vastly superior.
It's almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.
Not reached, but breached?
What is Linux, a virus?
Wrong, fully possible as far as ActivityPub is concerned. Instances may (and most do) set the requirement themselves though.
I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.
Late to reply, but
Imagine if, like how app publishers can seemingly magically deploy arbitrary code and send data at a high speed to and from your devices, society and technology went in a similar way with appliances:
Due to the obvious fire risk, all appliances need to be recorded. The recordings: accessible real-time to the fire department and yore utility suppliers. Don't worry, installation of the beeded equipment is covered by the Stop The Spread of Fire association. You only pay a symbolic part of the real cost.
Sounds dystopian, and it is.
Hell, with the way some cashier-free stores are using solely scale-equipped shelves (no camera needed), a conclusion of "Why don't we do that in OUR fridges by Samsung isn't impossible. Give an eextended warranty and some bonus functionality like expiry tracking if the user registers their produce in the device's built-in display. Then sell the data and profit.
Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they're throwing isn't rare or important.
You'd think people would check on the off chance it's worth a bunch but you'd be surprised.
To be honest, I'd be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.
Ideally, they wouldn't cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.
Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.
You don't get it. It was never about past decisions guiding or restricting future ones.
What precedent is: a) to be used as an argument and b) a way for the high court to set rules for lower ones to abide by... Until the next recalibration.
Isn't that the Tesseract from the recent trama?