Also good luck with firmware updates, since most of them are extremely inconvenient to install with Linux, and also few vendors actually update their firmware any more than they need to.

Slug.

When I was small I left my kazoo outside in the yard, and then when I went to play it the next day, I learned the hard way what slugs taste like.

They’re bitter.

Varies by jurisdiction.

In the US a lot of places are defined by the structure of the government rather than anything to do with their size.

Yup.

Although I’d expand texting to “messenger apps” specifically Signal for me.

Fuck SMS.

That’s a very unconventional use of the word “city”.

I do occasionally. It makes bland cereal (grape-nuts and corn flakes) palatable without just dumping a bunch of sugar on it.

Pro-tip: oatmeal is cereal.

I think the OP can be understood to mean “how MS came to be as successful as it was, as quickly as it was.”

Without assistance from IBM they’d likely be nothing.