The evolutionarily stable state is a small percentage more ads than people will tolerate. That’s just maths.

I thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn’t realise that was added to chrome after the fact.

I did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?

Google know who they’re streaming videos to. They know this from the back-end. They absolutely do not require a script running in the browser to phone home about it in order to count “views”. All the telemetry they need they can get from existing traffic; the additional telemetry supplied by scripts is mostly just for Bad Reasons and it’s morally fine to block it.

MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.

That’s weird and sounds like some kind of software problem. I can’t see how that would happen otherwise. I have a Voyage and don’t have wifi configured on it at all, just add books with calibre and it’s been fine for a decade.

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.

Sounds like they explicitly don’t want to federate. Unless it’s a parody site, I guess.

it’s not like being exposed to other people’s content would change them in any way

CD player and I went on a spree buying a bunch of CDs on ebay while waiting for the player to arrive. Music I had when I was younger.

I never really considered cloud saves. That’s an excellent point.

GOG has linux support (or at least lutris offers gog-specific wine config when you launch something windowsy).

To be fair I have no idea what Workshop, Input or Remote Play are, so I’ll go along with them being wanted features. But I feel a lot of things are not really the responsibility of the shop and more of the client software.

I forsee a requirement that only “approved” OS are allowed to connect to mobile networks, citing security issues.

Can you give an example? I’m assuming we’re looking for something that works on Linux using Steam or some other store, but not using GOG - either directly or through lutris/proton. That might clear up what’s being asked.

What do you mean by “no features”? I use GOG to buy games, that’s it. What other features does a game shop need? Serious question.

Episodes 7 and 15 would’ve taken place on the holodeck.

ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.

Even if we decide that the teleport might not get you through doors, if you could spam it faster than (works out maths…) 10 times per second, they you could hover, or really slowly fly (about 0.8 inches per second horizontally)

Storage and processors don’t last forever. As parts break down, you won’t be able to replace them. Need a new hard drive? Sorry, it’ll only talk to motherboards that shake its hand.