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You're free to whatever opinion you might have but it's not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.

Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.

Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed that you only quoted the part about Windows.

I'll just let my comment remain but it's okay that you're having an opinion that spoofing OS when accessing websites is not needed.

I've been a regular user of Debian and Ubuntu for the last 20 years and even though I love the idea of Linux taking market share from Windows the article doesn't in any way analyze the reliability of the statistics.

Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.

So... How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using. Some sites actively sabotage the user experience and usability if the OS is not identified as Windows or the web browser is not Chrome/Edge.

I've been working IT since the 90's and there's not a 4% market share of Linux when I look at my friends and colleagues that works IT. The ones I know that doesn't work IT definitively don't use Linux. Att least not in other things than Steam Deck and Android (Linux as in "modified kernel") and maybe some premade img for RPi

Touch screen, Vibration feedback/Color change or not, means that you have to look at what your hand is doing and not on the road.

A physical button means you can keep your eyes on the road and find the right button with easy.

So let's be honest. At this point, touch screens are chosen by car makers because cost and not design. So essentially, safety is less important than cost for the car makers.

Don't worry. There was some little minor thing about a vent but is reported as fixed since it was discovered.

Just finished the last season of For All Mankind yesterday and it can be seen as a sort of prequel to The Expanse.

But then again, you never know when the service you rely on will be canned by Google.

How many Instant Messengers have we(yes, I'm an Android user) been through now?

Even if this was the case, it's still not good:

"The one who controls the AI now controls you."

I still don't get "There's some things imperial is just better at...We as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric."

I can remember -17.8°C and 37°C just as good as Americans can remember 32°F and 212°F. So in that sense there's no difference, just different scales.

However, Fahrenheit based 0°F on the lowest outdoor temperature he could measure in Gdansk (Poland) during the winter of 1708/1709. He then based 100°F on his own body temperature.

Even if you were able to perceive human body temperature without a thermometer, there's no way you in any way can relate to the winter of 1708/1709.

At this point using Fahrenheit is just a principle and nothing else.

Funny thing, he's not only spending his own money. He's burning the taxpayer's money too.

All these useless lawsuits takes up important resources but lucky us that Elon has a taxable income....

But that's the exact problem. The human body adjusts.

One person in Norway might tell you that 59°F is t-shirt weather while another person living in India might say that you'd better bring an extra jacket. One person in Egypt might tell you that 91°F is okeyish while elderly people in Denmark is dying of heatstroke.

People in metric countries have no problem comprehending that -17°C is a cold fucking day and that 37°C is a heat record in most countries.

Please elaborate. I'm trying to understand why you think that people perceive Fahrenheit better than Celsius (metric).

A human has a core temperature between 36.1°C (97°F) and 37.2°C (99°F). If a person has a fever, it can be anything from 38°C (100.4°F) to 40°C (104°F). If we then don't have a thermometer to measure the temperature, our perception of "hot" will be the same when trying to determine if there's a fever or not.

Down at the beach water freezes at 0°C (32°F) and boils at 100°C (212°F). So it's dead simple for a 3 year old to understand since they just have to see the ice/ steam.

100°F not so much since there's nothing you have that you can relate to that is 100°F exactly.

No degree at all but been working IT since the 90's.

It's fun that when I started in IT everything went from centralized (mainframe and terminals) to decentralized (PC). Then came Citrix and everything went towards centralized. Smartphones and apps came so we went decentralized again. Then cloud came and we essentially went centralized again.

It's all about trends, the pendulum swings back and forth....