As a UKian, this is unfortunately true. No matter how many of us want to just cut off the US completely, the government will always capitulate.

Any more so than vanilla Chrome?

Doesn’t Firefox still have brand recognition though? I’d have thought even people who answer “google” to “what browser do you use” would have heard of firefox, and therefore looked it up rather than using the neurons to ask, “what alternative browsers are there?”

Yeah, I just had to search for this because I thought, I missed that too!

A few years ago I played a game called Spelltower, but it stopped working. I also played about 15 minutes of Carmageddon before losing interest one time.

Haven’t played a game on my phone since, though. I think it’s a frustrating experience trying to play anything on a device like a phone.

Sure.

But someone offered it $100 for a six pack of Bru and it declined, and they’re taking this as a hilarious failure, because a real human would be a real scumbag and take the cash pretending it was the right amount. So it’s not capitalist-level evil yet.

I would imagine they’ve at least talked about trying get people to enter credit card details. I know that’s been pushed before, as early as the 2000s, for age verification on some sites. Obviously it’s terrible for privacy, data breaches and flat-out fake sites just harvesting card numbers or taking all your cash at point of verification.

git() {
  if [ "$1" = "cd" ]; then
    shift
    cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*"
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

This lets you run git cd to go to the root of your repo, or git cd foo/bar to go to a path relative to that root. You can’t do it as an alias because it’s conditional, and you can’t do it as a git-cd command because that wouldn’t affect the current shell.

I’d remove the size constraint on darts, so you could choose to use a lawn dart on your last turn, for example, to score 6352 points.

I pay money to ride on the bus and still see ads there.

“Premium lite”? What is this doublespeak?

Guarantee it’ll be called FloorPlanFinalCopy2.ppt and will be for the company’s previous office.

Every bad connection in the year 3453 still sounds like analogue static. Every dodgy video connection from a FTL spaceship gets VHS tracking lines as it breaks down.

Aliens connect their nanoprobes to your the main character’s PC and download the Internet so they can judge humanity.

Even if they had magic tech to do this, they’re still constrained by the MC’s shitty 10Mbit DSL. Somehow they can download everything humanity has ever done in 5 seconds, and all while pictures of it are showing up on the monitor for no good reason.

Replace “nobody” with “nobody who contributes to society; nobody I gave a shit about in the first place” and you’re on track.

I have a Binatone one in a crate here with essentially the same selection of games on it. It was a really common thing to clone, there was one chip that played them all.

No, Radofin was a UK-only brand.

You could definitely kill a villain with my laptop, if you fired it with sufficient force from a cannon.

This is not a particularly relevant comment, but you reminded me of when I was a kid and a friend had a TV on a stand opposite her bunk-bed. She didn’t have a remote control, but she did have a long stick, and she was amazing at pressing the buttons from like 2m away. Proper life skill.

Which is incidentally the opposite of proprietary products, where if you give it another go in a few years it either doesn’t exist or is enshittified.