The world in general switched from Firefox to Chrome several years ago because at that time (when just released) Chrome was new, shiny, and fast (much faster than Firefox). And at that time everyone loved Google (they still had their infamous “be no evil” motto). And Google also promoted their browser, and, given their web resources are immensely popular, that helped tremendously.

That switch had nothing to do with recent concerns about privacy in Mozilla products.

The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.

You have the bootloader, the initramfs, the boot procedure, systemd, PID 1, you can check the logs, you have all those little things that make the system work

Windows has pretty much the same concepts. These two books talk about all that in deep:

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/windows-internals-part-1-system-architecture-processes-9780735684188 https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/windows-internals-part-2-9780135462409

Also check out this one: https://leanpub.com/perfbook

23 all year round

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Oh You will have trouble getting your outbound mail delivered

Sooo… where will be your email server then? On your home computer?

Yes! Another big deal in Japan is (yes, still is) translation devices. While some people there move over to Google Translate, many old-fashioned ones still rock those gadgets that look like voice recorders but with a screen, and translate your dialogue. Japan, as a country in general, is known for not so good English skills among the population: as I understand many people don’t really see a need to learn that language. Especially given that those devices to deal with foreigners are available.

There are many gadgets (including specialized ones) in Japan that have been produced for the domestic market only.