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  1. Fixed original on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    ....allows putting window controls and an ad-slinger.....

  2. what is this no space on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    you speak of.
    Top of my FF 58.0 [64 bit] reads File Edit View.........
    No guarantee they don't kill it off in the next update like Chrome did.
    But there again I dropped SnoopZilla a few years ago.

  3. There are many... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use distrowatch.com see what is hot.

    MX-Linux [https://mxlinux.org/]

    Dedoimedo [dedimedo.com] ranked it #1 XFCE for 2017.

    Up to date with Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, LibreOffice
    1.2g ISO

    Requires CD/DVD [or system that boots USB]
    i486 or AMD and above
    512 MB Ram
    5GB free disk space
    UEFI or BIOS

  4. from what I know about the current usage it was done by marketing as people are more apt to shop on the home if is it not dark.
    The farmers have a point, the sun is up/down on its rhythm - not ours - for the same amount of time twice each year on that day.

  5. riding around on anti-gravity lounge chairs and sipping Brawndo while talking to a non-existent persona or Hunger Games. People need to be able to make change at the corner store. what? never mind. Our implanted MicroAmaGoo 666 chip will handle all purchases - no money or plastic needed. The next couple of years will reveal the future.

  6. This will not be fixed..... on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...until the right person dies.
    I spent 20 years with 911/999/etc and that is the motto there also.

    So until some important lorrie/torrie/libdem/publican't loses a parent/spouse/child to hacking....it will not be fixed.

    Until then install VirtualBox and with a VM for SolydK.
    Been using for 3 years with not problems in auto-updates.
    Developers came from Debian.

  7. someone listened.... on FCC Proposal: Internet Providers Must Ask To Share Your Data (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not your product. I am your customer. And don't call me a consumer. I have taken those CD coasters and fried them, baked, bar-b-que, and boiled them. They are still tough and chewy. I consume and transform steak and potatoes.

  8. Re:The best part on Time Warner Cable Suspends Broadband Upgrades After Merger (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell me what planet you live on.
    I live is South Texas, with a city monopoly, sorry City Franchise, who is TimeWarner.
    And soon to be Sabotage, or what ever the new overlord will call it.
    That on the other hand does not modify the Franchise.
    Yes, by politics, we have choice-----
    ...Dial Up - oops Verizon just got bought and no infrastructure for anything.
    ...DTV - pure digitized crap signal.
    ...Satellite - speed, price, and latency are a ROFL.
    ...Cell phone for internet but they are not cost effective for gigs/month - I do computer repairs.