This is why customer service folks often keep a mirror by the phone, looking at their own faces helps to keep their emotions in check when dealing with a difficult customer.
I've been using Ubuntu for years and I literally had no idea. Admittedly, I don't deal with servers or anything, so I guess some of the stuff coming from their package respositories could be "snap" format and I wouldn't really notice.
Spectrum's "deal" for my location was 500/10 mbps for $90/month "introductory price". I asked what the price would be at the end of the introductory period, and they refused to tell me.
Meanwhile, Frontier gives me 2/2 gbps for $100/month, no price changes.
I have no interest in TV, I don't even pay for streaming, so at the end of the day Internet performance is all I care about.
Yes, watching video on your phone, in short bites, is "like" TV, and arguably some of that content can come from full-fledged "TV shows" with diverse talent and production companies and cable distribution...
But surely it has not escaped Stewart's notice that a shocking amount of eyeball time is now on video content that is not produced by mainstream media -- instead made by small creators & online teams working from their homes. And if you doubt the impact of that, go down to Walmart or Target and spend some time on the toy aisle. The shelves are PACKED with Baby Shark, Cocomelon, Busy Beavers, Blippi... all of these streaming-first non-mainstream brands that are mostly famous because of Youtube.
It's odd, because Stewart himself is the one who benefited when cable TV made "narrowcasting" a thing. And now that there are even narrower narrowcasts, he can't seem to see that it's an existential threat to his way of making content.
I am so, so, SO glad I'm now in a home with access to fiber Internet. Real, 2 gigabit symmetric fiber.
The cable company keeps sending me glossy ads in the mail - several per week - trying to get me to go back to 1/4 the bandwidth at the same price. Uhhhh... no.
The purpose of hard age limits isn't just to restrict the autonomy of minors.
It's also to allow adults to know where they stand, with respect to the law, and eliminate ambiguities that could be used for selective enforcement.
As an adult, I can't decide whether to sell alcohol to a minor, or have sex with a minor, etc. based on some concept of "real world maturity". And if you give prosecutors flexibility in charging adults with crimes based on some mushy concept of maturity, you can probably guess who will get the shaft: poor folks, and black & brown & red folks.
I don't know that hard age limits are "fair" to minors, I suppose I would probably agree that they are not. But we have to consider what is fair to the person who might be accused of a crime.
It was never a question of being technically right or wrong. Linus' realization was that his inflammatory language was viewed as permission by other people in the Linux community to be verbally abusive to their peers. People who had been valuable contributors to Linux projects explained to Linus how they had been berated by colleagues, and when challenged those colleagues cited Linus' own language.
What Linus wants is working code, and you don't get working code by giving tacit permission to your most aggressive & abrasive community members to attack others.
Corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior