First of all, many webpages use Linux, so everyone is actually already using it remotely.

For PCs it is, because ppl are lazy and MS made deals with hardware vendors to ship it preinstalled and Apple even have their own OS to preinstall.

Android contains a modified Linux though and also comes preinstalled. So to some degree many people are using Linux on their portable devices, too.

I have a colleague. She doesn't like Windows (more like she doesn't like MS spying), has a laptop with Ubuntu, but she also doesn't like change.

This put her in weird situation, when she still has PC with Windows 7, outdated firefox and complains youtube is borked all the time. And once she moves to laptop, there's old Ubuntu (more than couple major releases old) which was never updated, because "she liked it that way". Guess what? Similar problems.

I told her many times that if she wanted carefree linux experience, she should update it once in a while, there's no evil MS behind it, but no. She never updates because reasons. She rather visit some obscure website that presents some terminal commands she doean't understand, but copy them over anyway and voila... the linux is in even worse state than before.

That's why linux is not hotfix for everything.

It's tricky to know how to feel about this when so much of what Musk's companies produce amounts to vaporware.

It's definitely an amazing technical achievement, and props to the engineers, but it definitely feels tainted when the man who finances the whole thing really shouldn't be allowed to still have security clearance for a litany of painfully obvious reasons.

Beautifully done, honestly amazing, but with Musk it's always in the back of my head "what aren't we being told about this?"

This is pseudo-science. Judaism is a religion, not a gene. And to the extent that ancestry can be inferred from genetics, around 20% of the iberian population has iberian jews as ancestors. So is spain considered 20% jewish? Of course not, because ancestry is an ancient mixed bag and judaism is a religion. Is there any evidence that Columbus practiced judaism? I haven't heard any.

The headline is total clickbait compared to the more accurate description in the article:

And both in the Y chromosome (male) and in the mitochondrial DNA (transmitted by the mother) of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.

I gotta wonder why QR payment has gotten so popular in East Asia and basically nowhere else

What's the difference driving this

I think Oranges were named before Carrots.
What are these?
They're orange....oranges
What about these?
Oh shit....long pointys?

Funny story, what we call pine cones today used to be called pineapples. When the term pine cone took over, it left behind the fruit we still call a pineapple.

Also, bananas have been called "long apples" and eggplants "love apples." Basically "apple" was a descriptor meaning "fruit."

Meanwhile, in France:

"What's the roundish thing we eat a lot?"

"Apples?"

"No, the one that grows underground."

"Dirt apples?"