jdnewmil

This is th trouble with rule-by-self-interest... eventually different people's self interests clash. Now what was the solution in the constitution? oh, yeah, rule by laws... but that clearly didn't work... /s

Can't really help much there... I haven't bought a keyboard in years. But once you drop that first qualifier the availability of options just goes bananas!

... hell, it's on fire! ;-)

maybe he should take backups more seriously. The damn disk could have failed and had just as unpleasant an outcome.

I suggest that you should spend less effort looking for special hardware and more effort learning how keyboard mappings work in your OS (e.g. [1][2]). "Linux" is a very powerful chameleon because hardware vendors almost never cater directly to that market.

[1] https://linuxconfig.org/reprogram-keyboard-keys-with-xmodmap [2] https://github.com/xremap/xremap

People die every day from dihydrogen monoxide poisoning... and contrails are a visible source of that chemical! /s

Agree, but this is the ELI10 explanation, not the ELI5 explanation. ChromeOS and Android are both operating systems that look and act very different than an operating system like Debian or Fedora, but all four of these examples use the Linux kernel.

Sure there is. If you get dead, you don't care about taxes, and if not, then you do. /s

Well, at least they are consistent.

LA batteries don't "only trickle charge", but a) the cost per kW of UPS equipment is usually significantly higher than the generator, and b) the generator has a much higher surge current capability than inverter-based sources, and c) the power that actually goes through the battery loses anywhere from 10-30% in the round trip, so you get less usable output by routing power that way. If the cost issue becomes a smaller obstacle and you can be clever about bypassing the battery when appropriate, then like hybrid cars you can overcome those challenges... but not everyone or all affordable equipment can do that.

Samsung and Pixel, but various earlier models with micro-USB also. The plugs on my nightstand chargers have also tended to loosen up over time, but since I don't unplug those as often they don't seem to be the weak link.

Hugh Jass isn't owned by any one person.