Your local city college may or may not offer free classes (in San Francisco, you just need to show proof that you live in the city with some legal status).

Some public transportation is free for certain groups (youth and folks experiencing homelessness can get free passes here).

"First X of the month" at the zoo/a museum/whatever

lots of venues have free events.

A jog, bike ride, hike

lots of great stuff outside!

If it's a campus bus it's almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.

That character is from the 20s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt

Take numbers with a grain of salt, e.g., this link says a 7200RPM 160GB SATA drive from 2004 is $107, or about $0.67/GB, instead of the $5 claimed in post.

Oh no! What will Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, Harvey Mudd, UCLA, and other California schools do!

My favorite was when the behavior of a USB drive in /etc/fstab went from "hmm it's not plugged in at boot, I'll let the user know" to "not plugged in? Abort! Abort! We can't boot!"

This change over previous init behavior was especially fun on headless machines...

I think he didn't really get that "Picard gets a neurological link to the Borg" == "not good"...

Yeah, it's possible/probable that it was a dick move by some planning committee. But if I were wheelchair bound, I could imagine that being a) acknowledged and b) in the middle

instead of always off to the side

could be nice.

This is obviously not good, but I don't have great intuition.

If I have a mug full of gasoline (or worse, diesel or something cruder), and reuse that for coffee, I can imagine that being bad. But a tanker truck is humongous, and the contamination would, I imagine (???), scale roughly like a surface area-to-volume kind of thing, meaning that contamination for a huge container should be substantially "better" than my coffee example. (Perhaps this scaling law is a bogus assumption though?)

Of course it is still bad, gross, and probably dangerous...

Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.

Unfortunately, I think there is no real way around companies killing games. Because as shitty as this is, is it worse than every game which doesn't intend to comply simply selling the game as a service instead? I doubt that could realistically be made illegal.

In other words, one way of complying would simply be to only sell a 1-mo. "lease" to your game. You don't own it, and at some point they stop selling more leases, and then kill the game. You never owned it to begin with, so you didn't lose anything; you are no longer a customer. Of course...this is just describing a shitty subscription system.

That said: I think it would be a good start for companies to be required to list earliest end-of-support date. You already get this with many hardware vendors (enterprise network gear won't be supported forever).

It cannot be overstated how much of an impact a dishwasher and in-unit/in-home laundry have on quality of life.