While a death star is definitely more powerful, I think I would have to choose then BFG9000 from Doom.

Sysadmins have no idea what they are doing, we're just one step ahead of the rest of you at googling stuff.

Original on Cory Doctorow's own site here

I thought he didn't need any help with the war he had already won?

Disclaimer: my wife has a chronic neck injury.

Car! We've had Renaults for years, but last time we went for a BMW and the difference is night and day. My wife had to do lots of stretching exercises just to go and buy bread. In the BMW she can happily drive 5-6 hours with no (extra) discomfort.

Sounds like you need a holiday.

Rent a log cabin with no cell service for 2 weeks and see what you feel like when you get back.

Either your parents have serious problems or your mum is developing some form of illness. They need to see someone.

Why does it feel like it's only ever Bernie Sanders that is pushing to bring the US inline with Europe?

In France I work 32 hours, have 7 weeks holiday and awesome healthcare.

I have cows in place of a unicorn though.

The problem goes back further. You say "another group owned it first", but Israel say they have had that land for millennia and it was given to them by God.

Palestine did not even exist until the British randomly carved it out on a map except for a brief period under the Romans around 0BC. The Romans called it Palestine in order to remove Israel's identity.

How far back do we go?

It was nothing because of the HUGE work that went into avoiding the problem.

died of medical distress

Isn't that how everyone dies?

Is the sort of parent who gives a 5 year old their own phone going really going to a limit the use? I think the crossover in that Venn diagram is pretty small.

My employer would beg to differ. Seeing as they pay my mortgage and not him, he is irrelevant.

As an actual bible believing Christian, I would like to officially distance myself from all this nonsense.

What you have just described could be ZigBee and/or MQTT.

Shocking

Here in France I have 35 (not including national holidays).

A couple of weeks ago I moved Firefox to one side. Window disappeared, but Firefox was still running "somewhere" on my desktop, but was not actually be rendered to the screen. Killing the process and relaunching just resulted in it be rendered to this weird black hole. Log out of gnome and log back in? Same! Reboot? Same!

Ended up deleting it's config folder and re-attaching to Firefox sync in order to have it working again. No idea what went wrong, nor will I ever most likely.

Yeah, for a living room TV the only option is either "digital signage" or no network.

I'll just stick to not connecting my TV to the network.

Laserjets up until generation 5 were amazing. There are laserjet 4s still trucking away churning out pages. I personally had a LaserJet 4MP that I sold when I got married due to its extremely low wife acceptance factor (it was huge, loud and ugly. We both regret that decision because 20 years later it would probably still be working.

Basically, what Brother lasers are now is what HP laserjets used to be up until ~2004. We can debate the exact switchover year ad nauseum, but you get the idea.