Props for finding the answer and sharing it!

Literally Paradox’s entire business model…

This! Manufacturers were trying to lock people into their systems, just by different means. Reverse engineering a piece of low-level software (BIOS) so that you could run high-level software written for that machine architecture on different hardware was the main battle of the day.

Seriously! I was so relieved when I reached the end of the headline

“Democrat-run cities”

When I was practicing jujitsu, our instructors were pretty unanimous that they would rather be robbed by someone with a gun than with a knife. Not that your odds are great against any weapons, but a gun only has one dangerous bit. The first time I was learning to disarm someone armed with a knife I was told “If you fight someone with a knife, you’re going to get cut, no question.”

Yeah I remember using the Compiz cube on Ubuntu 8(?)

Don’t a lot of CPUs like Snapdragons already have “performance cores” and “efficiency cores” that the kernel has to be able to recognize in order to switch between them? This sounds neat but I’m just curious what’s different between these situations.

Programs that want to receive or send data across the network do so using a port. A firewall (in the sense of a firewall on your computer) is basically a program that sits between the rest of your programs and your network connection and determines what programs should be allowed out to the network and what incoming connections should be allowed to talk to your programs.

This is “increasing security” by making sure you don’t let incoming connections talk to whatever happens to be running on your computer that might be listening for network traffic.

I can provide a more ELI5 explanation if you would like it.

You can drop the awkward one and just -xtract -zee -files without -verbose output

#1: CISC has gone largely (entirely?) extinct

Citation needed? Isn’t x86 considered a CISC?

Corning is not CorningWare. Corning Inc sold their entire consumer products division off. Corning Inc (makers of Gorilla Glass and fiber optic cable) is just fine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorningWare