I’m Wendall Zurkowitz and so’s my wife!

Thanks, Dr. Dystopia.

Fun fact: this feature used to be built-in to Firefox itself.

“Free, efficient, no bullshit” is kind of the default for Linux software.

He tried his best.

I always listen to my parents’ kid.

It’s an official Sony thing.

The difference is just whether the client app gets notified of new messages/replies by asking the server “Is there anything new?” on a set schedule (pull), or if the server sends the notification “Here’s something new!” only when there is a new one (push).

Yep. I’m not sure if OP was looking for technically-pull clients specifically, though I have to imagine conventional notifications are a basic feature even on iOS.

Checking at a regular interval is “pull” (not push) though. Push means the client keeps a low-bandwidth connection to the server open so the server can notify the client as soon as something has happened.

My money’s still on Bart.

I don’t doubt it exists, but I’m kind of curious about workflows that still involve burning optical media in 2024.

Someone certainly has… IBM and Lenovo themselves! Both have sold external ThinkPad keyboards over the years that are (in some cases) literally laptop keyboards, with a TrackPoint, in housing.

This one’s top-tier.

Janet?

.gz

Baby’s first steam hammer.

They liked diggin’ down deep in the record bin!

https://www.alohamiscreant.com/p/beastie-boys-sample-source-collection.html

To be fair, the joke is “it goes up to 11.”