This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error

I would have been great as a garden hermit.

SCART might make a comeback!

merge and commit

Are we talking fast-forward or squash merges?

You'll want to look into a category of programs called dotfiles managers. There's a bunch of them. Most of them are based on some kind of version control system, usually git.

I personally use yadm

There's a committee that meets every 3 months and takes in suggestions from the public.

is there an article somewhere I can read?

Did you have a specific subject in mind?

I did find this article.

That's one advantage of having the jawline of an Unreal Tournament '99 character.

ISO 8601 or bust.

Drinking Water has a 100% fatality rate.

93%, actually.

https://www.good.is/infographics/the-population-of-the-dead-how-many-people-have-ever-lived

Also: THIS SITE IS BETTER IN THE APP! Every time you open the site.

If I wanted to use the app, I'd have it installed by now.

Meta comment, but I like how this 3 year old post somehow ended up in Hot.