Apparently, the trophy actually comes in two parts. It’s supposed to come apart. Vance didn’t know that, picked it up the wrong way, and it came apart and (when it hit the ground) broke.

I just use Boost for Lemmy. It doesn’t have that problem.

I have. I was making a reference, which is why I linked that video.

Who’s Dewey?

I honestly didn’t even know it was still around. The last time I opened it was… Windows 7, I think?

(Psst, it’s “Raid: Shadow Legends”.)

I mean, does that mean Edge is a Google browser, too?

Chromium is open-source. Even if Google adds something malicious to the source code (such as that Web Environment Integrity stuff), it can be removed by someone else creating their own browser based on Chromium. That’s the very definition of open-source.

Related side-note: Lemmy itself is open-source, too. If the creator of Lemmy added something to the software that someone running an instance didn’t agree with, they could simply fork the original software and remove the unwanted addition. Some people do disagree with that person’s views, and yet they’re still here. Many of them joined .world and other instances instead of .ml because they disagreed with the creator’s views.

While Google, the creator of Chromium, isn’t a good company for the consumer, I personally think Chromium itself isn’t a bad idea. It’s just that Google and some other companies modify it for their own means, and those means aren’t always consumer-friendly.

All that to say: while the company that originally created Chromium is bad, the software isn’t. And while some of the companies and people using that software are bad (including Brave, IMO), some of them are looking out for their users’ interests, and those forks of Chromium are generally ok. (You should still actually do research and not pick a fork because the company developing it said it’s okay, though. Take a look at what others are saying and verify it.)

It’s in the syllabus.

76F in the summer, 72F during the day in the winter, 68F at night in the winter.

ReVanced says they support removing timeline ads from Instagram. I don’t use Instagram, so I haven’t tested it, though.

All my Twitter ads are just about AI images.

In other news, water is wet.

I used the construction analogy because they are at least trying to fix the DDOS issues, or at least that’s what I’ve heard.

Reddit, for reasons I’m sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that “meets” once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I’ll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.

Google’s Android. While I don’t currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.

I guess you could call these “soft” boycotts.

I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.

As for modifying Windows (like I’m doing with Android) or boycotting it, I’m sure that’ll happen in time with the way things are going. I’ve only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I’m doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.

My least favorite part of Stack Overflow.

It’s like a mall where the main entrance is closed for construction, but all the other entrances, including the entrances through different stores, are all open.

What’s this about Dig Dug?

To add to what OP said, the deaths were not immediate. In the first incident, the scientist conducting the experiment died 25 days afterward from acute radiation poisoning. “Acute” doesn’t mean he suddenly had symptoms 25 days later. It just took that long for him to die after he got radiation poisoning.

The nearby security guard died 33 years after the incident, though his death (acute myeloid leukemia) can also be attributed to that incident.

The second incident with the demon core involved at least eight people. One of them died nine days after the incident. The other seven lived for several years. Of those seven, at least three of them died from complications related to the incident (such as leukemia or other causes). Of the remaining four, one of them refused to take part in any medical studies, and their medical records were withheld from them. Another died in the Korean War four years later. Two of them seem to have died of natural causes, or at least the cause was not specified.

I’ve seen both this and Windows Privacy Dashboard suggested in this thread. Are there any big differences between the two?

I’m kinda wondering the same thing, minus the “insufferable” part. (Then again, maybe the original Lemmy users do consider us “insufferable” for messing up Lemmy’s culture? Who knows?)