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"Craig McCracken, the creator of PPG and Fosters Home has consistently used his Twitter following to boost other creatives by retweeting their work"

This is exactly how Mastodon works.

Very, apparently. Would anyone care to explain?

TL;DR: Distributed ledgers don't allow enough circulating cash to make the economy go?

If you're already using Gmail, how privacy conscious can you be?

This is all very reasonable, but assumes that avoiding catastrophic failure is the most profitable course of action.

It reminds me of Broadway Boogie Woogie which is from the 40s…

I have a NUC5CPYH (it was very cheap). It was too slow for my liking, but everything worked, including Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Haiku, etc.

ChromiumOS is perfect for it. It's distributed by Neverware as CloudReady OS.

I read Code by Charles Petzold so I think I have at least some concept of how the operating system and hardware communicate. So now I guess I need a better understanding of how applications communicate with the operating system, as recommended by another reply, more for the sake of knowing rather than any practical reason.

Have you read Operating Systems: Design and Implementation?

If this article is a little over my head, what can I read that will help me understand?

Following in the trend of Google Hangouts, Google will eventually split the services back into different products.