It threatens nothing.

You can pick any. I guess the way is to just pick one based on it’s description or users or package availability or size and then learn to use it. And or try another one when you figure out if it has problems. Sick with the one you like the most. Or write your own.

Spam doesn’t care

Nothing to see phone.

NiCd and NiMH batteries die when left in slow drain devices as the first cell to go empty starts to be reverse charged. These die and often leak pretty fast and you see that all the time if you repair old devices.

Li packs don’t go empty as the battery protection circuit cuts the slow drain when they reach low water voltage. They are revived when the protection mode charge reaches low water mark again. They’ll be fine unless you leave them for years and years. Even then they generally never leak.

Layoffs always make financial numbers look good for a moment. People are expensive.

Bs title? No content in the post beyond a link?

Translation: play store will be showing even more ads.

Never have. Maybe once they thought that shame or illegal activity would cut into their profits too much.

8" floppies?

Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.

The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.

The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.

No. Apple has never determined what is mainstream. At most they’ve been slightly mainstream adjacent a few times.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.

Other docks existed even before, of course.

You could use some sort of caffeine as a workaround. I do since sleep locks don’t always work.

It’s Nvidia. That’s not going to change.

Here’s one nice list which also reflects the status of their usefulness. Physical availability varies widely, though.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

I think it’s more like a door slam without a door.

Only when it’s idle for a while? That would point to power saving or suspend. You could try changing those to see if it affects the situation.

But yes, hardware. And I would suspect the display controller in particular. I’ve seen many that glitch when in power saving.

Also, have you checked for bios updates?