I pay for it, because I've always watched a lot of it and I got used to "YouTube Premium" when it was called "YouTube Red" and came free with "Google Music" (now called "YouTube Music").
bss03
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I haven't owned a MS Windows laptop in more than a decade. The ghosts exist on Linux, too.
But, I feel like I have more control over my Linux than I ever did over MS Windows, so I've been able to keep a Debian installation on my desktop working great (not without problems, but still my preferred computer to use) since Nov 2007. (Sometimes the filesystems are live migrated to other storage, sometimes the storage is moved to a different case or main board, but the installation continues.)
Laptops, I honestly use less, but I often swap out whatever distro (if any) the come with to Debian (because I know it best), acknowledge any limitations that brings, and use them until the battery life gets too short or the CPU gets too slow. Even then, they still always feel more "haunted" than desktops. I think that mostly comes down to less control/planning on components specifically for Debian. (I built my own desktop.)
I always check the community before upvoting these days.
So many humans never get a chance to see it more than once. It will be special, I think. 2061. I'll be 81 if I make it.
This is the first orbit of the comet that human society was able to track it the whole trip. You can find telescope photos of when it turned around this time.
You never know what you are going to get. Her husband, both my maternal grandparents, my mother, my brother, and a cousin all predeceased her and it's likely my father will too.
I expect I will check out early to avoid the pain of socialetal collapse due to climate crisis, but maybe I'll stick around long enough to see Halley's Comet again.
My paternal grandmother is the same. Turned 92 just a couple of weeks ago. Goes to the gym with me to lift weights 3 days / week!
I used to prefer personalized ads over the insanity that was 90-00s "random" ads experience. But, since ads became a risk vector, I agree with a block by default approach, and I'll find alternate ways to support sites I visit frequently rather than allowlist ads.
Where is /r/boottoobig on the Fediverse?
The tether / power transmission line does pass through potential flight paths, tho.
Still, I imagine the impact to be even less than ground-based turbines.
While it is rather complex and hard to predict, the most likely global outcomes are fewer extreme weather events and extremely mild cooling. The hairy ball theorem tells us there's already somewhere on the globe with no wind, so it's not that big of a deal to convert some wind into electricity. This particular approach couldn't convert "all" wind into electricity.
https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/spinning-skies-how-earths-rotation-shapes-our-weather -- We won't run out of wind until after we start slowing down the rotation of the earth, and we watch that pretty closely to know when to add leap seconds, and I imagine it's an just absolutely huge store of energy in the form of angular momentum (et. al.).
debconf does take time during upgrades, but at least it tells me before it messes with the OS configuration. So, yes, there's something to be said for that.
(Of course, technically a dpkg can do anything, as root, during pre/post-install/removal so it's a social convention more than a technical difference.)