There’s been some great ideas here, but I like yours the best.

Bill Burr complaining about being forced to be the pope would be amazing.

“I’m not going to lead mass. Leading mass is Charlie Work!”

Huh. Pope Joan?

Does anyone have any clue?

My best guess would be some relatively passive notification stealing focus.

As reddeadhead mentioned, there’s specific “don’t steal focus” settings. I’ve had good luck with them.

I don’t know enough about it to confidently say they’re going to lose all their money

It happened to my relative. They didn’t lose everything, but they lost enough that they’re shopping for a mobile home for retirement, when they previously could have bought a small house.

Plausible explanation.

Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.

It’s essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with “no benefit”. An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.

This was really helpful. Thank you.

I remember those days, as well!

Just so you know, this isn’t Reddit. You’ve just been blocked by everyone reading along here.

If you start to feel like no one replies here, it’s actually you, in this case. It could help to try again with a new account.

Sure some people might say hi back but that doesn’t mean they’re a friend.

True. But I’ve had some great friendships grow after years of just “hi” in passing. We weren’t friends yet, but we were destined to become friends.

Thank you! You’re doing Lliira’s work!

I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

That’s me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don’t have the time to get through that.

So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.

I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.

Nothing anotger fireball won’t solve…

the low rollers having been filtered out by dart traps, lucky kobolds, etc.

True. That’s mage survivor bias, right there.

• Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?

Yes.

• Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?

I’m in the same boat. I’ll be trying out these answers.

Did I miss something, or is a 12 year old in France now in (indefinite?) police custody for being curious online?

Altair Basic was released in 1978 for hardware that sold around 25,000 units..

I’m sure glad computing remained exactly equally complex since then, with exactly the same number of users, and same minimal diversity of use cases. (This is sarcasm.)

Everything should still take 10 days. Anyone who tells me it takes longer probably believes all that crap about the Internet being more than a passing fad. (Still sarcasm.)

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be buying one at the first opportunity.

My other action figures are going to have to stand in the shadow of the glory of “it’s just Jack Black, I guess”.

(No sarcasm. I’m really going to buy this. I love the idea of Jack Black just playing “Jack Black”.)