Yep, that’s the problem with browsers. They cost so much to maintain that their primary contributors are earning money through other means to keep the projects going. Gecko and Chromium are open-source, backed by Google money on both ends, but even then almost all of the non-corporate browser projects are just forks of one or the other.

Other than Safari, which is closed source and only on Apple’s walled garden, Ladybird is the only non-Chromium, non-Gecko browser I can think of, and it needs a LOT of work.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/ for any curious

I have to imagine competing with a de-Googled Chrome is also a concern. I wouldn’t think this apples to the majority of users, but a lot of people currently using Firefox today are only doing so because of a dislike of Google (and Microsoft), who might be willing to go back to a responsibly managed/truly FOSS Chrome.

The cease fire they did work out which Israel repeatedly violated anyways?

Of course he did, since his boss said it was just a 3-day special military operation to begin with. How was Trump to know there would be more to it than that?

I don’t think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, “Well, isn’t this nice?”

My family members complain all the time about how many robocalls and how much spam they receive each day. I have almost none.

My phone, meanwhile, has only the barebone essential apps I need, while they’re still in the mindset of “I need an app for anything and everything.”

I don’t even know how they manage to find anything in their 10 completely full home screen pages of apps.

Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it’s a lost cause.

Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You’ve also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.

The economy could tank, but I don’t think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don’t have too much hope.

Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.

I think your example wins, OP, but I will say for anyone who works in an office environment: Microsoft Office (or Libre alternatives for my FOSS friends which don’t have logins to begin with but whatever).

Imagine if you had to log in every time you opened up a document, and you get automatically logged out after 10 minutes of inactivity and lose any unsaved progress.

Global productivity would grind to a halt. (That, or people finally switch to LibreOffice or similar, but corpos will still reliably do whatever decision seems dumbest).

Makes me wonder if someone out there has a phone number of 404-746-8363 (404-PG-NT-FND)

Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten looks for picking up bowls close to my face in the west. Normal for my household, but not normal elsewhere.

Even for not-chopstick dishes like soup or pasta or something, I just find it easier to hold the bowl close to my face, rather than having to lean forward so much over a table just to not make a mess. That shit is how people learn bad posture.

Most carrot cakes I’ve had contained raisins. I don’t think it’s chiefly an American thing but it definitely seems common enough.

I hate it. Anything that dramatically breaks up the texture of a food like that is a culinary mistake.

Those sorts of things can absolutely happen. Newer versions of games often either patch issues on older versions or there may be some glitches that are not as easy to take advantage of when the hardware isn’t struggling as much.

The Zelda Speedruns site even maintains a list of version differences for various Zelda games which make a difference to which version is optimal to run.

Yep, even going way back, there are differences between speedrun times for Ocarina of Time on N64, Ocarina of Time on GameCube, Ocarina of Time on Wii VC, and Ocarina of Time on NSO. And that’s also not considering the native PC port recently assembled by the community.

And that’s why speedrun leaderboards always factor in game version/region and platform when measuring runs against one another.

The Peter Principle is a concept where people get promoted up to their highest level of incompetence.

If you’re good at your job, you get promoted. If you keep being good, you keep getting promoted. But eventually you land in a position that you’re not good at.

It’s always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.

The problem is that when the other half of the country learns that fact, they think “Good.”

A lot of those states with higher minimum wage also have a higher cost of living, though, so it’s not all cut and dry.

Yeah, ICE.

Still seems up in the air. Just looking at the current numbers from CBC, the NDP is only slated to take 8 seats, so it seems like BQ is going to be the one with the cards, assuming the tides don’t suddenly shift.