May you sell a million!

Good idea. There are plenty more conditions that could be added on to make becoming a landlord/gambler much less attractive. Like: you can’t even begin to buy another until you’ve finished your year and sold the place.

Not just browsers … Take a look at what Microsoft has in mind for Windows 11. https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

Well, no, often. Take a 30-year mortgage at 5% on a $120K house with a $20K downpayment. Now figure out what the bank earns off that $100K over 30 years. Banks love mortgages.

They should never have been allowed to become gambling chips.

Noone should be allowed to purchase a home without agreeing to live in it full time for at least a year afterwards. Split it into a duplex to become a landlord? Another year. Wanna be a landlord? You must live in that building full time along with your tenants. Outrageous? Not nearly as outrageous as homelessness because of the prices.

Nirvana for sure recorded a lot of fine tunes.

Oh, now there’s a quote I’m gonna pass on.

A lot of ‘guitar solos’ were more about one-upmanship and less about the music itself. That was a rock problem … never a problem for great bluegrass. (Ever heard a great bluegrass band? They’re amazing.)

I still listen to college music stations all of the time. They aren’t selling anything, just playing the stuff they like.

The mainstream was never where the real action was at.

Good for you! I too make music for fun, and ignoring what’s going on in the ‘music industry’ is what got skiffle ** (and punk) off the ground. Trying to do what’s already ‘in’ is a game for the profit-driven … whereas real creativity ‘for fun’ is -always- where the fair’s at. If by chance we come up with something new, those are the people who are remembered!

** I just learned the other day that after skiffle came along, guitar sales in the UK went from 5,000 a year to 250,000. And there was no place to play at that time. And a guitar was the most expensive instrument needed for skiffle.

Good point on the lubricants, but given the potential profits, it’s already being worked on. https://www.nyelubricants.com/space

That it is!

10 times as much as gold

To -make-, yep. As the article pointed out, there’s a lot of Amercium in waste dumps where old smoke detectors … and anyone can make it. Five times the half-life means it can power much longer missions.

Ur right. Headline: "ESO captured shapes of a supernova… " The SHAPES (evolution of the explosion) have been captured. THAT’s the first. Then, just like NASA colorizes it’s astro photos, these guys made a cartoon. But the detail in the -shapes- is new science.

The era that these companies evolved in has been left far behind. The best you can say about them is that they keep knowledge of modern research from spreading. They may be the last refuge of intellectual colonialism.

I’m already seeing sites telling how to block FF’s AI baby steps … which I discovered were already present in the FF I use. https://equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features/

Who knows how badly they’ll mess themselves up by not being -completely tranparent- about this stuff and -not- making it really easy to disable. It’s still possible to download older versions of FF to fall back on … in case they lose their minds.

LOL! Well, always is a long time, but not so much until the internet came along! And there are older versions of FF extensions like UBlockO still floating around out there. And it depends on what types of sites the user will be visiting.

You could prolly find someone who’s kept some old versions of 32-bit FF, but using them on -today’s- network with old-time security? Whoof. As for the OS, some older XFCE’s WILL work OK w 500MB, but you’ll be waiting on disk-swap a lot, and SSD options will be limited.

Another popular Linux system restore utility is called Timeshift. It has a GUI to control making system ‘snapshots’ at regular intervals … as frequently as you like. I’ve never had to use it to save -major- messes, but I’ve needed it a couple of times. It’s worked flawlessly … taking just a few minutes to scan and replace/remove wayward packages.