You mean OS X users are incapable of reading "man bash" and setting up their ~/.inputrc file?

$ sudo rm -rf /

In my shell Home does the same as CTRL-A. You can define mappings for special keys yourself if your shell does not do it for you.

For notes/receipt just use your smartphone camera (plus Evernote).

Too bad Amazon does not publish warranty terms for flash media. In the past PNY was notoriously bad with their warranty, most of the flash they made had just 1 year warranty which I think tells something about quality. Good brands have 3-5 years, sometimes lifetime warranty. You need to go to PNY site to figure out…

Ads by themselves are not bad (in very limited amount). What is bad is that companies with users start selling users' information to ad companies for targeted ads. So it goes quickly from a company trying to make few bucks to support business to company whose primary business is collecting users' info.

And I never did Instagram. One more reason not to use them ever.

My ad filter loves ads. It chews them day and night.

Would it work if I call and say "I'm calling from Valhalla to say I'm dead, please cancel my contract"?

If you build this make sure that bowl is fixed tight to the base and cannot be moved, otherwise whole two-liter bottle of water is going to end up on your carpet or hardwood floor. Same goes for bottle, your pet beasts may have their own ideas about what their next fun project is going to be :)

Give it something! Anything! It'll take *anything*!

I would probably buy 8GB model if it had SD card slot. The hardware may be OK (Samsung still beats it) but it is bulky. Give me something with 4 inch screen, SD card, decent screen resolution and good camera. Actually S4 Mini is the phone I like but unfortunately it does not have model for T-Mobile 4G/3G.

Is there a Mac alternative?

OK, quick search found an article from 5+ years ago which should qualify as "older age": http://www.anandtech.com/show/2340/13. The numbers for system power use at idle are at the level 50-60W (and this is consistent with my experience). I would not expect anybody want to use anything older than 5 years for the…

ZFS is harder to extend capacity-wise and needs a lot of planning (which is OK for enterprise). It's super easy to add one more disk to RAID5 array with mdadm. It is not possible to add one more disk to raidz array.

Anything that draws 100W on idle is not an "average" PC. 50W is probably closer to reality. And difference between 50W and 35W won't justify building new PC, the savings will be just ~$15 in one year.

ZFS is not very suitable for home server, but mdadm+LVM2 should work perfectly for many applications.