NeatNit

Relevant Tom Scott video

If the installation set up updates using apt, even if it uses a separate repository server, then Update Manager should still update them. I have personally seen updates from third-party sources show up in Update Manager. For example, I've installed Proton VPN using these instructions and it does receive updates using Software Manager.

If you installed Mullvad using the "Ubuntu/Debian" instructions here, then I think it should get updates through Software Manager, but I haven't tried this browser myself.

For any other software, it depends on how it's distributed.

There's a falafel place that closes at around 13:00 every day and doesn't seem to really care all that much if you pay or not. I can't imagine it not being a money laundering scheme.

They make great falafel though!

Is this even true? I am fairly sure that Linux also has a graceful shutdown process, but I'll admit I haven't looked into it.

I think it's funny for the exact same reason that this xkcd is funny: https://xkcd.com/1168/

Why does the majority of your post read like you don't know these exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector

They're fine, but as you mentioned in the first paragraph, lack of a standard is their main drawback. You could find two power supplies with the exact same connector but different voltage and polarity.

Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.

It's pretty, but when the surface of water is involved it really becomes necessary to take simultaneous pictures for left and right. The refraction changes chaotically very quickly, so there's a mismatch between the left and right image.

I don't mean to discourage you, this is still good, just pointing out the shortcomings of the method!

Floppy disk. Fight me.

Voyager error. It's a gif of Star Trek, I think.

All thermometers are atom-based.

... We were all thinking it!

is that something people do?