I think OP is the grandma in this scenario and just hit puberty in real life.

So that’s what you meant when I asked you to do the dishes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4Z06IbSek

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I can assure you that my van and my basement are totally save! So come right in stranger.

I think questions with “how”, " why", “where” etc. tend to be open. An example for a closed question would be: “Do you use apps to learn a new language?”

Maybe you could argue about “what” and “who” questions, but I prefer uninteresting questions to be filtered out by votes instead of rules, anyway, so I don’t care.

Also, even a “bad” question can be saved by a good answer, e.g. a report on language learning apps.

Basically I see two options:

1. This works for advertisers and based on your “profile” you are strongly influenced by the ads shown to you. So might just as well give your data to Meta and Google, who already sell profiled (and not individualised) ads.

2. This doesn’t work for advertisers and you are not strongly influence by the ads shown to you. So the advertisers could just as well put a link somewhere and hope it is found by their target audience.

Also I don’t my browser, my OS or any other core component on my system to be in bed with people who are trying to extract as much money as possible from me.

There are radio stations, financed through ads. And they check if people are listening by calling random persons to ask them what station they are listening to.

So this is a viable business model and nobody is stopping anybody from putting plain pictures and links on sites and just estimate the page visits, but online advertisers want to know more. They always want more.

At the same time, a browser is the essential software to browse the web. So this is as if your TV was like:

Yo, many people mute their TV during commercials and don’t pay attention, which kills the poor networks. So I made a deal with advertisers and will check what your doing, while I provide unmutable ads , but don’t worry, your privacy is very important to us and we only care about providing to you the best TV experience possible.

Thank you for being genuinely interested in the opinion of others and for explaining culture differences.

An API that unlocks DLC? That sounds like… wait what community is this? (looks around)
Is that a wooden IP address? Nice eye patch by the way. Cheers matey!

Suicide by co…mputer nerd.

Windows 3? If you weren’t so old you could have become a Masterjodler69

It did? Which one?

I was wondering if you were joking :D
but apparently I guessed wrong.

I’m using Ubuntu derivatives since many years. I’ve looked at Arch in virtual machines and was very much lost. Even with Manjaro I didn’t get along. I’m still testing EndeavourOS, which looks promising.

So to me, Arch is too much hands on for my lazy ass. However, if you like to nerd yourself into it, it’s awesome (I think).

I don’t know, but I would try a distro that is also recommended for gaming, because you will likely need an up to date version of WINE or something similar.

So maybe endeavour or Pop!_OS?

From my personal (very noobish) experience, it might be necessary to run a virtual machine with Windows. However, this experience is from before the Steam Deck and Proton, which improved the whole software biotope by a lot.

No offense, but I was dumb enough to wonder why they put a space before “:” and thought something must be broken. Obviously, pressing q and Enter (or typing <Enter>) also didn’t work and proved to me that this editor must have crashed in a strange way.

So every time I see vim, it reminds me about my stupidity. The meme eases the pain.

Grab a brush and put a little Compiz

You were doomed from the start, just like booting Windows. (badumtish)