On top of that we shouldn’t distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.

You’re describing Gentoo Linux . . . which is not especially popular among Linux distributions even though it runs on just about anything. There may be a reason for that.

Used to be that every Royal Navy ship had a cat. One even received the Dickin Medal—Simon, ship’s cat of HMS Amethyst. Alas, the tradition ended in 1975.

The thought of how the computer would react to me telling my cat to get down off the desk is . . . both amusing and disturbing.

I HAVE broken discs in similar sets (Mr. Robot, Planet of the Apes) taking them out of those awful cases

So someone actually came up with something worse than the Scanavo DVD cases (on the grounds that I never actually broke a disc taking it out of a Scanavo case, just thought I was going to)? That’s . . . brutal.

Phone numbers are the equivalent of IP addresses. It’s just that the accompanying DNS solutions are pretty badly broken and the firewall options are all iffy.