In 2001-2005, my rent was $120-$160/mo in a low cost area of the US. The places weren't fancy but they were good enough and safe.

Tuition started around 4k/yr, but had worked its way up to 8k/yr by the time I graduated (which I thought was unaffordable).

Android engineers don't really speak for the whole of Google

Is that true of any group at Google? What’s your point?

The title is "Google says". It's pretty normal for people to assume some public statement is like this would be a company thing, not just some single person of very small team.

It's more like 'Android engineers say [...]' than 'Google says [...]', which kind of implies PR dept. or someone very senior but not so senior they're just named.

Steven Rostedt has a long history of kernel contributions before joining Google and is likely better known for those.

I spent so many years on SA and Homebrewtalk and they were both such rich communities. Discord is nice and all (and seems to be where things are going) but there's something overwhelming about chat that was really cozy about forums.

(everything2 was incredible back when it was active and I really wish there was something like that again too)

Problem with discord is that it is still just a chat, with forums a newbie has a lot of threads to go through, lots of specific content to consume.

Discord is attempting to have something more like forums[1], but as am not a heavy Discord user I haven't tried it myself.

I used to run a phpBB forum and there was something about being an admin of a forum where people you didn't know in real life came to talk. The fact that Discord distorts the term 'server' to mean 'a channel managed by us' irks me.

1 - https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-...

I've gleaned that they use 'server' as something more like a 'workspace' in Slack: a set of channels and people. Odd, either way.

Square pegs into round holes. Discord's thread UI is identical to Slack's, and they're both useless for any discussions larger than ~50 messages or ~5 people.

Yup agreed - and also forums are particularly suitable to the introverted lurkers among us ^_^

I think this is quite dismissive and unnecessary. Suppose that someone wants to change their appearance for their own sake?

You don't have to open the case to go to developer mode.

If you want debug features without opening the case, there is https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ccd

Things like these are why I never bothered looking into getting a Chromebook.. developer mode? debug features? The article you liked is even more confusing.. Why can't people just stick a bootable USB in the laptop and install whatever OS they desire?

You don’t have to replace the EEPROM. You can just open the case and briefly disconnnect the battery to disable write protect, and then flash whatever you like.

Hard to figure out how to effectively challenge behavior like that from the rank and file, honestly.

My IBM office didn't have free coffee in 2005.

It's still alive.