Clickbait headline. What Google did was add a new tab for web results (only) in their search page, similar to images and news.

I do find it interesting/funny that Google felt the need to actually provide this, as a sort of acknowledgement that their main search "results" page is so full of random info boxes and generated content that people can't find actual links anymore.

Tip: you can use the WhatsApp web site for text messaging (I don't think it works for audio/video?) and if you want to use it in a standalone window you can "install" it as a web app (in most browsers). It'll use way less RAM running in your existing browser than running a separate electron instance.

Yep, very little of the main page is links anymore.

The article actually does make an interesting argument that the web is becoming a legacy format in favour of generative AI and social media interaction, and takes this as an example of that trend.

I wish this was real. I would 100% press this button every time.

It's ok the BG3 patch isn't out until next year. You've got at least a month to finish Factorio. You can do it if you use all that time you normally waste on non-Factorio things like sleeping!

"to dwarf" means "to make look small by comparison". So they're saying the new scope will make the BG3 scope look small.

Freighters aren't difficult to get now... ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler They just straight up give you a freighter after 3 hyper jumps IIRC :::

You gotta assume paradox is fully capable of breaking your game saves without mods involved though!

No, catios are pretty common in Australia, but a lot of people do just let their cats roam outside too (at least here in NSW). I'm not sure why this was news, maybe because it's quite elaborate, or they just needed more cute cat content.

Wow, you hated Gleba so much you went back in time a year to stop playing factory games?! (Space Age came out just under a year ago)

I loved Gleba because it makes you rethink how you build a factory to avoid stockpiling and storage and instead keep everything moving. If you're struggling with it you can also just use bots a lot and it works pretty well. If you're struggling with the enemies you just need to defend your pollution cloud and they basically don't attack at all.

According to the page linked in the post above, overseas businesses selling in Australia are subject to the same rules. It does say the rules might be hard to enforce on overseas businesses though.

Non-spoiler tip: you can alt+click just about anything in Factorio 2.0 and get more info on it. Good luck escaping Vulcanus!

I would guess that Google uses a randomised rollout system to make changes affect a tiny % of users while they test it (common in big software companies). Changing your useragent might make you appear as a different client that's not affected (yet). Source: I work in software and can guess.

I moved to Australia years ago and I still feel the pain of missing feijoas. They exist here but not in a huge quantity like in NZ. Enjoy your harvest! 🤤

And TIIIIIIIIIIME...

This actually kinda exists, but appears to be implemented in Chrome on Windows only (sigh), and I'm not sure anyone uses it:

https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/

Well, there's a "no tip" button that is always there, and it's entirely reasonable to press here in Australia

they might have changed a little more than his tie colour. Here's a side by side picture from an interview:

FAF is Forged Alliance Forever, a community launcher/patcher for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (the expansion). It has an active community and adds a multiplayer ladder, balance fixes, quality of life improvements, co-op versions of campaign missions, and more. It's great!

They actually moved some of the base game content from the starting planet to other planets with the DLC. And you can transport things between planets to kick start your factory, so each new planet should take significantly less time than the starting planet. So it's not really as long as playing through the whole base game then 4x more.

Still takes longer to beat but not like 5x. Closer to 2x for most people I think. Don't be afraid. The interplanetary factory must grow.