PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.

Because knowledge is power and most people don’t like giving whomever power over them for no reason. Also, it shouldn’t matter why privacy is important to people, the fact that it is should suffice to protect it.

GrapheneOS has been working flawlessly for me for years. Highly recommend!

Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that's worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it's a lot easier than many people think.

It depends. The artist being a bad person doesn't automatically make the art bad. But I also don’t want to support bad people. So, relevant questions to me are: Is the artist still alive? Do they profit from my consuming their work? Do I promote them perhaps indirectly? The answers will be different for e.g. Lovecraft vs. Rowling, or rereading a book I already own vs. convincing my book club to buy new copies.

Similar to the German “can’t complain”.

I'm German and switched from Mama/Papa (mom/dad) to their first names sometime in my early teens as did my sister. I couldn't say how exactly it happened—just felt too old to use the former. But that's not universal here; I know people who still use the nicknames in their forties.

I can understand that many people find reaction videos useless and low-effort content. Personally, I enjoy rewatching a lot of shows and it adds to my enjoyment doing so with somebody else. I have nobody in my life who is interested in that, so reaction videos work as a parasocial substitute. I can still see people I like (as little as I really know them) sharing the experience and sometimes having interestingly different reactions and observations.

BTW: For those who think reaction videos are a sensible way to not pay for the original content, may I introduce you to BitTorrent?

Owning firearms in Germany isn’t really that difficult although you must invest considerably more time and money than in countries like the US. Legally carrying them in public is a whole other story. Unless you work as something like a judge or prosecutor or have some serious death threats against you, the chance of getting a license approved is extremely low.

Pineapple on pizza is great once in a while. I like to pair it with jalapeños.

Perhaps a bit out of left field: Heated Rivalry, a Canadian romance about gay, closeted hockey players. I usually don't care about that genre at all but started watching the show on a whim after seeing much hype online. It's really good—acting, dialog, cinematography, sound design, … Just be aware that the sex scenes are quite explicit—not porn but up there in what can be shown on TV (well done though and always relevant for the story).

BtVS was not an adaptation but created by Joss Whedon for the 1992 movie and 1997 series. Any comics or other media came later.

I’ve been using the pro version, Moon+ Reader Pro, for years. It’s great for reading EPUBs, which I either buy DRM-free or, if that’s not possible, in any format and then download a “liberated” copy from Anna’s Archive.

Getting downvoted in a What’s your most controversial opinion? thread is just funny.

Without reading the article first because it probably covers similar ground, here are my thoughts after hearing of this thought experiment somewhere else recently: The relevant question is the likelihood of a blue majority. I consider group A, the people who will press red in any case to save themselves. That’s probably a large percentage but might not be 50 %. But then I have to add group B, people who might have pressed blue but believe A to be over 50 % and because of this press red. Next is group C following the same thoughts, believing A + B to be over 50 % and because of that press red, and so on. All of this makes a win for blue almost impossible, leading to almost everyone pressing red. There will probably some remain who press blue either because they're not thinking it through or because they, falsely in my opinion, would have taken on moral responsibility for “blues” dying and want to avoid that.

While this is an interesting experiment, I don’t think it can be used as direct analogy for anything like elections in real life because those are rarely life-and-death decisions, so trying for a better but less likely outcome is viable. More importantly communication is possible.

Edit: I just noticed that here it's not stated that people cannot communicate. With communication it’s actually less interesting. You can try to convince everyone to press blue or everyone to press red. Both would have the same outcome if perfectly successful but with red people are more likely to do it and there’s no catastrophic failure if 50 % isn’t reached.

I used to spend a lot of time configuring different launchers (including Nova Launcher) but since I’ve switched to GrapheneOS, I’m actually quite happy with the stock launcher. It has everything I need — multiple home screens, widgets, folders. And I use App Search as dedicated search and secondary launch app that I’ve set up as digital assistant for gesture invocation.

If you have your (encrypted) password manager file backed up to one or more otherwise unencrypted media, then remembering your master password will be enough in a pinch. But yes, for day to day password handling you’d want to have a few more memorized, e.g. the ones you’ve mentioned. As those are passwords you enter daily, it’s usually not much of a problem, especially if you use memorization techniques.

Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.

Actually, yes! What is “important” in a general sense is a similar question to that of the meaning of life. In the end there is no external, absolute rule of nature that decides this for us but we must create our own values. And privacy is such a value. In part you can derive it from others like personal freedom but that only moves the question. Different opinions on what our values should be and how to resolve conflicting ones in specific situations is the subject of ethics and has been debated since humans could debate.

This! I never understand people who recommend Librewolf or other forks over Firefox just because some default settings are better.