Debian on my desktop, Fedora on my laptop.

“Just”

It has tabs now, but they are painfully slow and janky

You ran Windows 11 on a 286???

That’s an excellent description of Microsoft Office after 2007.

Honest question, how is this better than just using a thesaurus?

Trinity

The generative summaries have the potential to take clicks / visitors away from the sites they’re from. I’ve seen reports of smaller sites being at risk of closing down as a result, and if there are no sites to summarise…

Watership Down

Even just the word “workflow” in this context feels wrong

Kind of like an open-source Evercade, then?

A phone that isn’t smart, probably

Are you sure? Doom was GPL’ed in 1999.

Finally, a keyboard for Sims!

The 80s called, they want their weird jokes back.

I get you. I think you’re right - if you have a page which does make heavy use of JS, it can be difficult if not.impossible to replicate the same behaviour without it. HOWEVER: you can often get something close enough!

To go back to my shop example: yes, you can use JS to show a richer shopping experience, with pop-up windows, filtering, and the ability to add to cart without leaving the page. Graceful degradation would be to show the same listings, but without the more convenient features that use JS - so without popups, with filtering that refreshes the page, and a completely separate cart.

Some apps really can’t function without JS, because they are… well, apps.

People do stuff in JavaScript that you really don’t need JavaScript for. You don’t need JS to display a store listing, for instance. Or a news page, or documentation, or even a search engine

I liked it when it was used to digitise books. Beyond that… nah.

Unsplash, Freepik, Pexels, and countless other sites exist where you can get free images with clear licensing.

I’m not sure I do, please can you explain?