Android and ChromeOS represent the the "kiosk/web OS" category of Iamthecheese's Linux distribution dichotomy. Android window policy is meant for small screens or 10-foot TV interfaces, not the sort of experience where one uses multiple windows to perform a task. ChromeOS doesn't run anything other than the included web browser unless you install GNU in a virtual machine.

I guess I was confused because I hadn't seen "net zero" in the pollution mitigation sense written in CamelCase.

"NetZero"? I haven't heard that name since the dial-up era.

I wouldn't be entirely certain that IP address geolocation is adequate to provide an estimate of sales tax by subnational entities, such as state, county, and city tax, that is accurate enough not to mislead the customer. I routinely get geolocated to cities 100 miles (160 km) away from my home until I key in my postal code.

On the other hand, as registrations_suck pointed out, the situation differs between physical goods and services. As I understand it, sales tax on physical goods and download services is sourced to where the buyer lives, and sales tax on hospitality services is sourced to where the service is performed. I have no idea where, say, sales tax on airfare is sourced. My personal experience comes from working for an online toy seller from 2007 to 2019. This means I'm more familiar with the situation surrounding physical goods.

If I had to guess, web shops hide the total for things like tax and shipping for two reasons. First, billing address is one of the inputs to tax calculation. A lot of customers are reluctant to divulge their billing address until the last step of checkout. Second, sales tax calculation service providers charge the merchant per query. Spending the cost of one query per page view throughout the ordering process rather than at checkout would probably noticeably reduce the merchant's margin.

Sling works around this by putting all Disney channels on the Disney tier.

Because you don't control the clients' certificate stores, your subordinate CA is not trusted. Instead, your server must use a certificate from a publicly trusted CA that the client already recognizes. And all the publicly trusted CAs are about to require a (roughly) monthly rotation.

They are, however, the publishers of the operating systems that run on the Internet terminals that most people keep closest to them most of the time.

If you're streaming video from a server on a home LAN or an air-gapped network to a smart TV or a streaming stick, the server will probably need a publicly trusted certificate. I've been told major brands of streaming device have no way to let the user install a privately trusted certificate.

What's the uncomplicated way to change a certificate on a service on an air-gapped network, where you control the server and do not control the clients' certificate stores?

One exception that I often run into is the case of browsing the web on a Windows 10 laptop with a 5400 RPM HDD the first time since Patch Tuesday. Because the HDD is busy all the time, with a bunch of stuff all trying to update at once, this makes web browsing becomes unusably slow. I end up having to leave it alone until updates to Windows, Defender,.NET Framework, OneDrive, various preinstalled Store apps, Chrome, Edge, and iTunes all finish thrashing the HDD.

I've read a different take on what caused the Atari shock in a post by "Critical Kate" Willaert. Consumer uncertainty about game quality was by no means biggest factor, as there were plenty of magazines that reviewed newly released video games. It turned out that in the months leading up to the crash, Atari had a manufacturing bottleneck, and it would routinely short retailers on their orders. To compensate, retailers got in the habit of over-ordering. Except one month, Atari suddenly resolved its manufacturing problem and actually filled all the orders, leaving retailers with more inventory than they could sell. When 2600 games went on clearance, nobody wanted to buy full-priced games for later consoles (Intellivision and ColecoVision).

This was flawed in at least three ways, at least with respect to the law of Slashdot's home country. First, the logo in Game Boy and Game Boy Advance program headers is a picture of text, and typography is not copyrightable in the United States. Second, look at the packaging of Game Boy, Game Boy pocket, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance systems that don't include a bundled game. They typically show the boot screen with the Nintendo logo. This could lead a reasonable consumer to believe that the logo display is part of the console, not part of the game, which makes a trademark case against game sales weaker. Third, U.S. courts have generally disapproved of using a copyright or trademark as an ersatz patent. See Kellogg v. Nabisco, 305 U.S. 111 (1938); Sega v. Accolade, 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992); Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox, 539 U.S. 23 (2003); Chamberlain v. Skylink, 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004); and Lexmark v. Static Control Components, 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004).

Does your D&D club's server have any channels that are marked as "age-restricted" (formerly called "not safe for work")? If not, your server's members outside Australia are less likely to experience the effect of this experiment.

More complex != larger dollar amount.

If you do any contract work in the United States for clients that don't give you a 1099, you end up needing to report your income on Schedule C, which requires the most expensive tier of TurboTax service. A lot of people who must file Schedule C are starving artists: small-time illustrators who do art commissions for other members of social networking silos to get by. Some of them qualify under an income threshold and can prepare and file through OLT without charge, as I did for tax year 2024.