The US is structured so you need a car unless you’re one of a lucky few in an urban area not built for cars.

People in other countries are also reliant on cars. Even if public transport is available, it’s often overpriced and unreliable.

The problem isn’t the raw cost of gas, it’s the relative increase in cost which raises the cost of living in step because you cannot live here without a car.

The same is true in the rest of the world and there the cost is much higher.

People in the rest of the world cannot take you seriously when you whine about costs per gallon and the rest has to pay the same amount per liter.

That’s dirt cheap.

Videos that stop at 1080p often have an increased bitrate option with Premium (no idea how YT decides when to offer it). 1440p and 4k are available to all without Premium.

Are there any real advantages?

1. No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers

2. Higher bitrates available

3. Ad blockers don’t work on Chromecast, other solutions don’t offer easy casting from the phone app

4. Better value than audio only services like Spotify

How is this legal?

In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.

But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.

Well, of course. All notification contents go through Apple’s servers (or Google’s in case of Android).

I’m a high performance athlete.

Just saying “esports competitor” (and then “competitor” thereafter) always sounded like a completely reasonable description to me. Not calling them an athlete,

If it’s a sport, he’s an athlete. If it’s competitive video gaming, he’s a video game competitor.

Its sport there are two teams competing.

Not every competition is a sport. That’s why there are two distinct terms – competition and sport.

Certain people in Iran also can access the internet to hack Western infrastructure, etc.

By your logic Iran’s internet hasn’t been blacked out either because politicians there can still post announcements on Twitter.

A nationwide intranet isn’t internet.

Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.

Oh good, now you can watch ads on your giant tv when your console or PC game ends because the TV will know.

You connect TVs to WiFi?

the Mandriva family (OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, ROSA, ALT Linux)

Originally based on Red Hat Linux and the forks are obviously not built from the ground up either.

In fact, any fork of anything is just outright against the premise of OP.

Based on Ubuntu

So not fitting the “built from the ground up” criteria asked by OP.

Either that or there are more glitches in Valve’s script

Wtf. I see happy people with one eye and lady parts with the other eye.

“0 64bit” must be a few distributions lumped together by a processing script. “64bit” is probably CachyOS when comparing to last month’s stats the ~8% match:

• SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%

• Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%

• CachyOS 64 bit 8.59% +8.59%

• Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%

• Bazzite 64 bit 5.79% +5.79%

• Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.26% -1.08%

• Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.82% -0.10%

• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit 2.83% -0.94%

• Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%

• Other 31.58% +16.20%

I don’t know what you mean with that 30% but 8.6 out of 45 is a sizable fraction but not one that constitutes an monopoly.