I really wish Steam would put their foot down and stop these launchers. They are nothing but a nuisance and add no value for the customer.

EDIT: Just to be clear, when EA Play joined Gamepass there wasn't a separate launcher when you went to play an EA game on the Xbox. Steam could make this work with them and the other companies. They have enough pull to make this work - it would be greatly welcomed.

If you're on a phone, try Newpipe. If it is AndroidTV, there's only one - SmartTube.

I use Jellyfin - music, shows, movies... it's open-source and has a lot of features Plex doesn't including, not having to create an account. It's your's to do what you want.

I personally see this as bad. Look at all the local television stations getting bought up and have become "message deliverers". There are only few companies that own the majority and have decided that delivering local news is secondary to deploying a message. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo]

Mullvad from the AUR, it's great.

The used car market is being strongly manipulated by the banks. Their inventory of repossessions has skyrocketed over the past few years, but they are limiting how many are going to auction so not to destroy the market and their margins. I've heard rumblings that with the push for EVs and their costs, carmakers are going to make them a service. You pay a monthly fee to use them and every few years you will get a new one. You will never own one outright. Who knows if this is true or not.

Technically, using a modern CPU is a security risk. (Intel's Management Engine & AMD's Platform Security Processor)

The AUR is the best part of Arch.

Was "Idiocrocy" not good enough for you?

At this point, the only way I see a game being native is with it being an AppImage or equivalent. The resources to keep up a Windows flavor along a native port would be wasteful. The only thing I would like to see is companies stop using launchers and kernel based anti-cheat systems.

I use bone conductors almost all the time. They're great.

In all honesty, we've been using digital currency for a long time - credit cards, wire transfers, etc. Crypto was started to have a non-centralized money system that's value was based on something tangible. CBDC is something else entirely. A way to track everyone's spending, assess taxes, turn off a person's means to buy anything if they go against the grain. It wasn't a psyop. One was made to take bankers and policy makers out of the process of determining a currency's value. The other is to gain more control over society.

I prefer Firefox and AdNauseum. I like seeing how the false ad clicks add up over time.

I'd love to see a comparison of all the social apps compared to Windows Telemetry, Google Play Services and Apple.

When I was given "Behold a Pale Horse" by a coworker.

There are user friendly options if you're willing to use them. There's /e/ foundation's Murena phone that you can buy. It's based on LineageOS for microG with a custom launcher much like iOS. It works out of the box, no tinkering. There's also GrapheneOS that has a web interface for installation. It is only for Google Pixel phones and takes a different approach to privacy than LineageOS for microG. They both work in protecting your privacy. As far as computer OSes, there are many "easy to use" options for the novice - PopOS & Linux Mint are the best two that come to mind.

If MC Escher's Relativity was a car.

I prefer to look at it as a societal "Munchausen by proxy" illness. I can't think of many that would sell a gun to child nor sell alcohol or consent to sex with a child. What about serving in the military or driving a city bus? What about a class 8 truck? For some reason, mutilating a child's body if fair game. Now, I'm not saying there aren't children that are predisposed as the opposite gender. I can't see why waiting until a rational decision can be made later on in life... especially given the problems this doctor had described.

Why not use a self-hosted Nextcloud server? It has a lot of features that could make what you do a lot easier. Share notes, email, pictures, files, video. There's a lot of plugins available too.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Types of Trees, Types of Gems, Greek Gods, Types of Insects.