The change to prioritize what you have installed over showing web content is a plus. I generally avoid using the search on the taskbar because I don't care about web content when I am doing a search for stuff already on my computer.

In the case of BitTorrent, even the fastest Internet connection won't get you a lot of successful peer connections if your ISP blocks all inbound TCP connections.

Such a new ecosystem already has grown, as I understand it. It's called getting Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+/Hulu, Peacock, Prime Video, or Apple TV to accept your pitch and fund it. These take the place of cable television channels in the pre-broadband economy. And there are still a lot more pilot screenplays than budget to produce all of them.

With the decline of third places, particularly since the pandemic and as online shopping has taken over the functions of malls, how do people usually meet people in 2026?

If only I could get my home ISP to add IPv6...

Young people see how poorly paid people in different fields are, and decide not to go in that direction. Health care is one example, where you hear about doctors being paid well, but then, all of the others getting paid very little. Nurses need to go on strike to get paid properly all over the place and on a regular basis, and that doesn't talk about the rest of the staff in a hospital.

You also have to look at where things will be in the next 20 years. With the Baby Boomers, when that generation dies off, there will be a drop in the need for health care jobs, or there will be an excessive number of them, but prices won't drop in the competition to bring in patients, so prices will remain high while there are too many health care offices around for the demand. Health care is actually an area that I expect will implode in the next 20 years. Technology jobs, yep, we are surrounded by technology, but the number of decent paying jobs are fairly low outside of the cities. How much can you charge to repair something that only costs $500 when new? So, lots of work to be done, but really, the pay doesn't reflect the level of skill needed, and that causes the overall economy to suffer as well.

The reality is that the culture in much of the USA doesn't favor education and having an educated population, and you need an educated population to handle the jobs that are available.

There are areas around the USA where people are against those with a college education. They complain that colleges "indoctrinate" people against religion, and nonsense like that. So, with a CULTURE and politicians that support that, it is no wonder we aren't teaching the skills needed for many jobs these days. That is when those same anti-education people complain about immigrants that come and take the available jobs.

Would it benefit the public to completely do away with the other 1%? How could something like The Amazing Digital Circus have been produced purely on a hobby budget?

How does the producer of a video go about seeding "word of mouth" and getting onto "curated lists"?

Yes, by excluding a lot of viewers who lack an IP address that can accept inbound TCP connections, unless I'm missing something. It also excludes viewers who have an iPhone or iPad and don't have a Mac with which to build and ad-hoc sign an app because Apple has reportedly banned BitTorrent clients from the App Store.

And how might that have been? I might be misremembering, but this was my recollection:

1. Movie studios and TV channels funded production of videos to be viewed by the public. Very few pitches got funded.
2. Movie studios promoted upcoming and newly released movies through television advertising, and TV channels promoted shows to the channel's own viewers.
3. Movies were paywalled, and TV was ad-supported (in the case of broadcast) or behind the combination of ads and a paywall (in the case of cable).

Also, before YouTube, most end-user devices on the Internet had an IP address, even if dynamic, which could accept incoming connections. Nowadays, a lot of Internet subscribers' devices are behind network address translation (NAT), and if you share your IP address with the whole neighborhood, the ISP is unlikely to forward a port to your device.

Under your proposal:
1. How would the producer of a video cover the cost of producing the video before it even reaches BitTorrent?
2. How would a viewer learn of a video that they are likely to enjoy?
3. How would the system work around users who "leech", or view the video without contributing to its decentralized hosting?

When China invites people because they have skill, they don't set the power of the government to harass those people. Here in the USA, the current administration is not only turning people away who want or wanted to come, but those who ARE allowed to come are then assaulted by ICE in many cases. That is what makes the USA obviously hostile toward immigrants as well as visitors.

They are secretly drawn to that sort of thing, but don't want to admit it to themselves. The moment they see it, their desire goes in a direction that they don't like to admit is there, and they freak out. So, don't show it so they can stay in the closet is their true reason.

Here in the USA, there is a fairly large group of people who are against higher education overall, as well as politicians who are worried about religion not being attractive for those with a greater amount of education. They claim that students are being indoctrinated against religion by higher education, but then they push for religion to be pushed in public schools. The fact that there isn't a HUGE push to teach math and science in the USA is a big part of why the USA has lost most of its edge. Those who are stupid but have a lot of money have also pushed a anti-education agenda because they feel intimidated by those who are more intelligent as well as more knowledgeable than they are.

To go into a little more detail, Chinese food in the USA often had MSG added back in the 1960s through 1980s, which had the side effect of making a person feel a bit gassy/bloated. This acted to make people feel full sooner, but also sparked the joke that you feel full, burp, and then feel hungry again from eating Chinese food. I can confirm this effect, but also, that starting in the late 1980s, you saw an increasing number of "No MSG" signs or indicators in the menu.

If they put this stuff in raw sewage, RFK Jr. might go swimming in it and finally get something that will remove him from the world.

Don't try to understand why Republicans do the things they do, because the more you know, the less you want to know.

If you lived in the USA, you would WANT to die sooner. Getting older and seeing what these politicians are doing to this country makes me not want to live longer and see more deterioration.