Steam is not how I like my gaming experience.
I decide if and when to install updates, and (free user) mods should be downloadable witout needing an account.

And yes, I do use GOG for the stand-alone installation of games.

Yep.

...we should be finished with the IPv6 switchover by the end of the 1990s.

I'm going to chime in with getting to university in Europe is a lot harder than in the United States. I know the schools in Switzerland have high stakes exams regularly that *do* filter the majority towards what we could consider trade-schools.
Those who do get in, as you said, their university education is essentially free.

Funny how some of the points were the (claimed) opposite for using Windows or Linux on PC years ago.

More importantly, how much does Soylent Green contain?

Yes.

And now look at it from the point of the average person and rethink your reaction.

It seems mods are nowadays not only fun for the gamers, but essential to make a game work. Cities Skylines is an example, first edition is only really fun thanks to a lot of mods which not only add features but also fix or work around bugs and incompetent parts of the game which won't be addressed by the studio. Even after more than 10 years since release, I feel that game is still early access in its vanilla state. If I knew someone who could snatch a copy of the source code, I could at least see what I could fix for my own personal use.

And there are more recent games which just don't feel finished to me. Sure, a bug can still creep up in certain situations, but not like as if no one had done any decent quality control on it.

Until a loved one dies.

Likewise, I'd like Firefox to have those same requirements for their own browser.

Allow Google to snoop on your behaviour? Yes/No.

In that case the term "AI cesspool/cesspit" would be apt.

I worked for a HMO from 2000s to 2010s. During my time there, we consolidated to a single building and were issued new badges that contained a RDIF that could be read remotely.
Every couple of minutes security would 'ping' the building and see where everyone was in the name of safety and security.
One day I had a gastro-issue and spent a lot of time in the restroom, and to my horror, there was a knock on my stall's door from security to see if I was okay.
After that, I would leave my badge at my desk while in the office.

So, basically not new technology, just using WiFi to do the checks vs RF.

why I nominate the Darwin award to humanity.

Doesn't matter, people don't even know what get means.
Literacy has been dead for ages.

A piece of dialogue in Far Cry 5 that always makes me chuckle relating to commas, and furries:

"Fuck, a cougar!"