Low skill users will use what comes installed on their machine, so installation quirks like that are not relevant for them. They don’t install Windows either.

How?

The planet broke before the Guard did.

Why not? Some of the easiest bootloaders to unlock in the smartphone market are in chinese phones.

So, do we agree that saying that “if a service is free, you are the product” doesn’t apply to FOSS services?

Sure, but that’s exactly what people mean when they say FOSS service.

Regardless, that’s not the discussion we’re having. The point is that those services are free of charge, and you’re not the product. And that a big reason for that is that they are FOSS services.

No, they’re not mutually exclusive. These services are software.

The free in FOSS doesn’t mean free of charge. All those paid services are still FOSS.

Ok, so what do you call Bitwarden, matrix, openstreetmaps, Mastodon, or Lemmy?

Always upvote Feynman. Got me through some tough times in undergrad.

Quantum mechanics didn’t supersede electromagnetism. Again, they’re different things. Electromagnetism is a fundamental interaction. Whereas quantum mechanics describes the mechanics of quantum particles. Whether those particles are affected by electromagnetic forces or not. It’s a description of how they behave at quantum scales.

Coulomb’s law has nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it’s a description of how macroscopic charged particles interact. What the OP should have said to be correct is:

Awesome to see the similarities between: Newton’s law of gravitation and Coulomb’s law

I don’t know where he got quantum mechanics from.

They’re different things. The OP means electromagnetism, Coulomb’s law has nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it’s classical physics.

The relation between them is that they’re both forces that scale with the inverse square of the distance between the objects. Any force that scales with the inverse square of distance has pretty much the same general form.

Another similarity is that both are incomplete, first approximations that describe their respective forces. The more complete versions are Maxwell’s laws for electromagnetism and General Relativity for gravity.

It’s electromagnetism you mean, not quantum mechanics.

The Earth will always be here. We, on the other hand…

I’m guessing the downvotes are because this isn’t an airport, you don’t need to announce your departure.

The original spelling wasn’t aluminum, it was alumium. Which then was proposed to be aluminium in French, and got picked up by the Royal Society. After, the guy who introduced the term to the Royal Society (Humphry Davy) started calling it aluminum but the other term had already stuck.

Straight to jail!

*sublemmy

Keep going, maybe you’ll get it right eventually.

Both great ideas. Especially for punctuation. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had to press spacebar upwards of 10 times trying to place a question mark quickly but missing by one.