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Reminds me of a story I heard: In a conflict, Russia sent SMS to the mothers of Ukrainian(?) soldiers, informing them of their son’s death (pretending to be the Ukrainian government/military). The mothers, distraught, called their son’s cellphone. The increased, clustered cellphone activity near the frontline gave away the unit positions. Shortly after, Russian bombs dropped.

For even lighter reading, try https://popular.pics – a picture/video viewer for Reddit I’m working on. I find it excellent for browsing image-heavy subreddits.

The sarcastic answer: You have to pirate papers. There is a popular Russian hub for science papers that contains almost every paper ever published in the last couple of years. It is used by many academics.

Almost no organization can afford to pay for all the stores, so even universities have limited access in the sense that they can only offer their students and staff a limited selection of what is available. Subscription fees are too high, single journals are often only available in bundles with other journals/topics, increasing the price further. Publishers act as gatekeepers to (often publicly funded!) knowledge.

They disabled the browser cache to put mild strain on the machine. Instead of visiting 10,000 pages to make sure the wifi is used over several hours, they visited the same handful pages and retrieved the whole data each time. If you visit then same pages with caching enabled, you barely use wifi because all data exists locally, which means it would not be a real-world test.

Unluckily, disabling the cache in Safari triggered a bug that drained the battery. Disabling the cache is still a valid method to simulate actual web browsing, in my eyes.

For some reason I find this not very appetizing. I would definitely not associate rare meats with it. Set it free, as the other poster suggested.

I use a MacBook Pro 13" Retina. With a 1280×800 resolution there is not much space. I turned off LCD font smoothing and set the resolution to a scaled 1680×1050. It is such a joy!

Text on websites and in text editors can be a bit small at times, but changing the font size is quick.

(You can disable LCD font smoothing in System Preferences > General. It requires a redraw in apps to see the difference. Alternatively, just reboot.)

I chuckled at your defensive reaction. Apple’s TouchBar has such a bad reputation that people genuinely fear it will spread to their beloved Mac models.

Are we talking about the Facebook desktop website vs. the Android/iOS app? If so:

The Facebook iOS app is snappy on my iPhone 7. Compared to that the Facebook website I access with my MacBook Pro Late 2013 does not feel smooth, and the navigation is terribly broken. Pressing the browser back button often simply does nothing even though the URL in the browser location bar changes. It is frustrating. The iOS app just works.

A big airplane can carry a lot more than 20,000 kg (20 metric tons) total. The Antonov An-225 Mriya can carry a payload of 200 tons for 4000 km[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#Specifica...