One thing I wish were easy to configure on FreeBSD and Linux that makes macOS feel more "Unixy"[1] is using Cmd+ for most application shortcuts and reserving Ctrl+ for Bash-style shortcuts throughout most textfields.
I'm in Metro Atlanta. Near me we have: Walmart, Target (our local Target has full grocery), 3 wholesale clubs [Costco, BJs, Sams Club], Aldi, Ingles, 2 local chains (largest is Food Depot which is all over the region), Piggly Wiggly, Kroger, Publix, and Asian and Hispanic supermarkets. Elsewhere in the metro area there is Lidl, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and probably others I'm not thinking of.
When I was in school there was a lot of fear about not using Microsoft in public schools (Windows, Office, etc.) because of not preparing students for office jobs. Nowadays most schools use Chromebooks or iPads. And plenty of jobs use Google Suite, Apple, and non-Microsoft platforms too. Maybe they won't be using a GNU/Linux software suite as often, but the world is not all on one platform anymore.
As someone who is often doing outdoor activities and sports in a very hot, humid area I can't find a good alternative to plastics for clothing. But they last a long time. I have a lot of synthetic workout clothing well over a decade old. I guess not nearly as long as you. :)
Reminds me of over a decade ago I was in a high school AP course. At the start of the course, the teacher recommended we get a AP prep book to study throughout the year, and recommended 2 brands. She specifically said not to get one brand, noting that it was of inferior quality. I had already got the prep book she didn't recommend as I had found it on sale before that remark was made. I later learned that she used that book for all of her test questions, sometimes literally copying the test from the book with minimal editing. I got a 100% on a test out of the blue after averaging in the 80s and then had to make it less obvious.
We were evaluating CircleCI at work (wanting to move on from Jenkins) and ended up going with GitHub Actions near launch as it was a similar enough project but without needing another vendor involved. We have had some kinks but GHA works well for us now with a substantial spend.
There are some fairly recent versions of Gecko that have been backported to Windows 95. I played around with RetroZilla a few years ago on Windows 95 and was able to get many modern sites to work. The K-Meleon project has even more recent work in this regard. It'd probably be easier to start with Gecko for this work than Chromium.
Burma/Myanmar unfortunately has more scrutiny because it's a current political issue. Some see the new name as associated with the current military government. The US officially calls the country Burma (e.g., CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/burma/ )
I mean there was plenty that happened in this space between 1992 and 2007. Smartphones were already ubiquitous for business users by 2007 but not for general consumers, including Blackberry, PalmOS, and Windows Mobile devices. As late as 2010 Blackberry was still dominant: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2011/1/comS...
Last time I got a new laptop, I simply ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad (X1 Carbon, not Extreme) with Linux pre-installed. I am past where I want to tinker to get the hardware and software working together, but do prefer Linux as my daily driver. I haven't had any issues with it, but I also got a relatively simple setup. I've ordered a Linux pre-installed Dell in the past with similar fine results.
I was in Henry County, GA, which has a lot of poor areas (including where I was living) with no MARTA in place. It's been over a decade since I lived there, but I'm not sure what's in place now.
I lived in an apartment in suburban Atlanta that was 4 stories in a county with no public transit whatsoever. Plenty of places in the U.S. have little or no public transit in the US but also have the density to support apartment buildings.
Interesting. I live in a big MSA (Atlanta, which includes a lot of mostly rural counties). I've considered a role at Google, but currently work in a suburb and live further out from there. 1 hour to Atlanta proper without traffic, but still in the MSA according to the census. And I could move further out and still be in the MSA (like Heard County or Jasper County if you want to look at some examples).
That's helpful. Whenever I hear people rail against corn, I think of all the corn dishes I love as a southerner. Cornbread, grits, corn on the cobb, and at Thanksgiving, corn pudding. My wife has got me to like polenta as well. But those aren't the problems.
Many gas stations are still magnetic strip only. It was the majority as of a couple of years ago, but it's shifting quickly. That said, I still very frequently encounter gas stations that don't accept chip or tap, only strip.
In my area most restaurants with table service don't have an easy way to do tap-to-pay (a few chains have something at the table for you to pay at that supports it). Also two of my most common retailers do not (Kroger and Home Depot). Very few gas stations support it, though the one closest to me recently added it.
I still use Konqueror as a file browser. There was a day I used it for web browsing + file managing (back in KDE 3 days), but there's very few updates being made to KHTML these days and it has stagnated.
Apple's Safari also uses a distinct rendering engine, Webkit. Chrome is based on Blink which was forked from Webkit and the two are quite different now, including in terms of supported features.
Google did it with ChromeOS. Sure it's more limited in scope but it's built using traditional GNU/Linux components in a user friendly and polished way.
That's not true. Most just charge a surcharge for under 25. When I was under 25 I bought a AAA membership which waved that surcharge as several major car rental companies.
The last place I rented (about 5 years ago), in a major metro area, my landlord would only accept a check from a local bank. I mostly used on-line bank accounts, but I had one account at a CU with a branch 30 minutes away. They would drive to the CU to deposit the check each month.