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Lest Alaska airlines be given too much of a free pass: they had a deadly incident due to lack of maintenance, where a DC-9-family jet lost elevator control entirely.
Regardless, an incident like this is not the worst outcome: nobody was hurt, and the aviation industry can learn lessons from the situation. That includes learning whether this is an isolated incident, or a systemic one, and where the issue actually came from.
I'm not sure why you think busses are more equivalent to planes other than holding more passengers.
SMS is about as close as exists for open instant messaging, but it requires a phone number
IRC seems to have inspired Discord and Slack, with the closed variants improving on features and discoverability.
As far as I know, XMPP doesn't really have a cross-server ability like SMS and IRC, though.
But yes, Valve does seem to get what gamers want (other than games made by them)
But yes, Rufus removes the stupid requirements.
On the other hand, though, not many developers get to focus mostly on new code. And generally, open source dependencies are going to be used, as it's considered wasteful to build everything from scratch.
I wonder how well it would work to copy the MSDOS 'DOS' folder into the PC-DOS one, just keeping the programs with different names.
News sites with scrolling auto-playing videos, overly-complex SPAs that are slow when you just want to get this specific task done, newsletter subscription modals, the list goes on.
True "webapps" are rarer than we've been lead to believe.
Another box to uncheck on each update: arc control and telemetry.