I can get that. Whenever I am sharing my screen or someone is watching me use a computer I turn into a boomer. I can’t type. I can’t find anything. I lose where the mouse is. Very annoying!

I used to work in a deli. Our scales gave weights in decimals, people always ordered in fractions. One day someone asked for an eighth of a pound. My coworker asks me “Is that .8?” I politely told her “it’s .125, so it needs to say about .13.” I guess part of it was panic, maybe if she had thought about it for a second she would have gotten it, but to think it’s more than a half pound was crazy. People ask for a half pound all the time.

Hmmm, could be numbers k such that phi(k) divides k+1, where phi is Euler’s totient function or perhaps numbers k such that every base-4 digit of k is a base-6 digit of k? Quite the puzzler.

https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C3%2C15&language=english&go=Search

If you say clavicular three times in a bathroom mirror, he’ll appear and chase you with a hammer to even our your cheek bones

Don’t you know? Click bait headlines have to say “someone”

The difference here is that I can reasonably believe the quarter second of spray being an accurate serving, but nobody has just one tictac.

Always take the lump sum!

Beeeg

My mom was weirdly prudish in the '90s and early '00s, I don’t really know why. Like she wouldn’t let me watch Dexter’s Lab because she thought it was gross or something? Idk. Weird time.

My mom told me never to click “I’m feeling lucky” because she thought it had something to do with porn because it’s a phrase people would say about sex.

Evil Chinese company as opposed to an evil American one?

And yet many Chromium forks are following suit and disabling Manifest v2 support. The idea that these things “don’t need support” is silly when we’re talking about the Herculean effort of maintaining a browser. Yes, anyone can but when the vast majority of browsers are Chromium forks instead of individually created and maintained ones, how much effort do you think those organizations have?

It’s good that browsers like Brave have an alternative means of ad blocking, and Firefox even has Brave’s exact same blocker built in now, but the idea that “you can just fork and block” is missing the point.

Google has effectively won. They are the de facto controller of web standards now that the majority of browsers use Chromium. When they began dropping support for Manifest v2 in 2019 it was the same year they said ad blockers were a major threat to their revenue in their publicly filed shareholder statements. This isn’t some conspiracy theory either, you can literally go look that up. They dropped v2 because ad blocking was too powerful and gutted it in v3. They know that the ecosystem of browser forks they helped create depends on their dev effort and won’t keep v2.

Even if v2 and ad blocking stay around, people still need to get the fuck off of Chromium. It’s ads today, but could be something else tomorrow. The problem is Google getting to easily control what like >80% of browsers see and do all because they control Chromium. Even if Google was suddenly like “you know what, we’re turning v2 back on,” I’d still be practically begging everyone to stay the fuck off of Chromium and get into something Firefox based. This is about so much more than just ads.

Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

it still boggles my mind that Microsoft developed Edge as a standalone browser as a replacement for IE then just said “nah, let’s just use Chromium.”

I only use Brave when some site is genuinely broken on Firefox and actually needs Chromium. I only do this because of its built in ad blocker. I’m open to other suggestions. My default is Firefox.

They’re really gonna make me buy Sex 2 after I paid for all the cosmetics for Sex 1?

This but unironically.

Depends on the license

In case folks can’t find it for some reason: https://quokk.au/comment/5603944

Firefox with uBlock Origin on mobile does that too. That said, I do use Brave on mobile when I need a Chromium browser and the Chrome Mask extension doesn’t cut it.