I am quite amazed how the subject of creating alternative online game stores for game consoles is never even discussed. Now that physical games are progressively disappearing, we need competition more than ever.

It looks just like all others social networks under the sun for Europeans. American companies are heavily siphoning personal data of Europeans and we still cannot do anything about it, even with the GPDR.

Nintendo is too conservative to do such a move now. They made an almost proper online service 10 years after Sony and Microsoft. It took them ages to release mobile games. I cannot even fathom how much time it would take to make the move to PC.

It is not that it does not work well, it is that you need to relearn to do a web search. Google's index is not that much superior, what is superior is their profiling engine, which is mainly design for their advertising networks but is used to adapts result to a user. So, if you do the same search in another search engine, just assume the search engine is a blank page and it does not know about your job, your habits and your preferences, so your search needs to be more precise.
Let's have a look at a glaring example. I am a software engineer. 7 years ago, I have started to ged rid of Google search engine. I tried a random search in DuckDuckGo. My first random search was "Opera". I assumed that the search engine would return results about the web browser, but 7 years ago, Opera browser was not popular at all, so the search engine returned results about the music genre opera, which totally makes sense. If I wanted to find stuff about the web browser Opera, I needed to search "browser opera". Nowadays, the Opera web browser fares better, and so, it is the first result when searched, so if you want to search about opera music, you need to be more specific and search "opera music".

Google is not superior anymore; DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com) and Brave Search (https://search.brave.com/) are really good. When I do not find something in either of these search engines, I never find anything in Google either.

In Diablo 2, you had to create separate characters for one player mode and for multiplayer mode. It was a well-known practice to create a one-player passworded online game so that you could play alone, but still use your character in multiplayer mode.
In Diablo 3, you cannot create an offline character in single player mode, the game is always online and thus you can use the character for multiplayer too. And in makes sense as you want to be able to transfer your character build, your equipment to an online game.

While I have been burnt buy this issue, I do not attribute it to evil DRMs, but to a Diablo 3-like philosophy. My best git is that is a way to ensure online consistency and discourage cheat with offline modified cars. Furthermore, it could also be linked to their aggressive push of in-app transactions. A virtual high end costing 20,000,000 of virtual money translates to $200 in real money.

It is both sarcasm and an inconvenient truth in France. Culture is always said to be important in France. France even got a ministry of culture. But then, though only 10% of its population lives around Paris, most of France cultural expenses and subsidies are in fact for Paris, and sometimes for some other medium-sized cities. The minister of culture is always saying that movie theaters are a central part of culture, even though most people do not have any at a reasonable distance. Theaters are even worse, they are seen as a hugely important part of culture in Paris, even though it is usually entertainment mostly for rich people.
So, when the government or congress votes a bill about culture, you must always see it as another part of cultural centralization and privileged-class entertainments.

On a final note, while my post was mostly about France, I guess that it also applies to many other countries. Small town have less cultural outlets than big cities.

This law is surely good for libraries and city dwellers. But in a country such as France, with many rural and remote places, that will severely punish these rural communities. But well, culture is always all about cities...

Herd immunity is and was the main strategy in most countries. The refusal to close the borders and to do hard lockdown was herd immunity at work.

I would say that Chrome and Safari are the new Internet Explorer 6 of the internet. Google is forcing some non-desired changes for their own agenda, which adds features but where privacy is a second thought, Then, Safari goes the ultra-conservative way and slows down many changes.
Not sure about which one is the worse.

Does it handle whole multi-site redundancy?

No, she has bad hearing.

If you are the average nerdy Joe, hardware RAID sucks and software RAID is cheaper and good enough. If you are a company, my beloved sysadmins told me that the awful vendor lock-in does not exist any more and you can pretty much replace any hardware controller by any other. So like many things in computer hardware, it is all about money and performance requirements, hardware RAID is faster.

You do not usually run Docker on bare metal but in a VM in an hypervisor. And in a 8 GB RAM server, it does make sense to use an hypervisor as you may want to quickly create a new VM instance for a quick test while not having to plug new physical hardware. And an underpowered CPU is not a major issue for an hypervisor, I have spend litteraly years playing with hypervisors on Pentium (the new ones) and on a 10 year old Core 2 Duo machine.