If I’m taking a screenshot, it’s because I want to accurately preserve what I’m seeing. Doing anything, clever or not, to alter that is a breach of trust.

Doing it for the purpose of branding/advertising, of all things, only adds insult to injury.

You’d hope so (especially backups by the public since all this ought to be public domain data), but the other problem is that the organizations collecting it are being destroyed so there will be discontinuities in it forever now.

My diesel car has run on B100 (100% biodiesel) just fine for years. That’s already good enough and requires no new technology or infrastructure. Hydrogen is stupid as hell.

Fallout 76 doesn’t count as a sequel to Fallout 4 in the same way that Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t count as a sequel to Skyrim. MMOs just aren’t the same kind of game as a single-player RPG.

the Wasteland hadn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell

That’s one of the things that annoys me about Fallout: it’s just so unrealistically barren. I mean, we have real-life examples in places like Hiroshima and Chernobyl, and the reality is that pretty damn quickly after the bombs, they’ll be just as green again as normal. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there should still be mutated creatures and ruins and stuff, but it should all be super-overgrown, too.

Not to mention, centuries is plenty of time for civilization to at least clean up a lot of the debris and such, and even make decent progress recovering. Realistically, the state of the world in Fallout is more appropriate for a setting a decade or less after the war.

As far as depictions of life after nuclear war goes, I wish we could have a game more like Alas, Babylon.

At this point, I’d need to re-play Mass Effect 1 and 2 first. And also wait for it to go on a good sale.

This isn’t from personal experience because its reputation is so bad I avoided it entirely, but apparently Mass Effect 3. The fan backlash was so strong they apparently had to retcon the ending, LOL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_ending_controversy

(You know it’s bad when it’s infamous enough to warrant its own Wikipedia article.)

Democracy relies on transparency and verification, not trust. Any government official who tries to keep secrets from the public is an enemy of the People.

No, “soft skills” are things like being nice and working well with other people. Why the Hell would gamers have that?

female pilot voice

How male-dominated is that profession, anyway?

Obligatory:

Watch out for them immediately contracting with Axon instead, which is just as bad.

Yep. Also, you can tell Youtube doesn’t actually care about stopping slop because if it did, it would take the AI videos down, not just “demonetize” them.

Sometime before 2007:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

Facebook was NEVER not evil, regardless of your rose-tinted glasses.

Pretty sure that’s an X (and I guess now Wayland) thing, not a KDE thing. I could be wrong, but I think you could sit down at a VAX from the '80s and expect it to work.

I didn’t want to give the appearance of shilling. But if you want to know, it’s https://www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

There are apparently also similar products from “Reflectacles” and “Vaydr,” but they were more expensive and/or not normal prescription glasses. The Zenni thing is just an extra coating you can add on to the glasses you would have otherwise bought anyway (which is how I found out about it; I didn’t know it existed beforehand).

Meanwhile, I recently got new prescription glasses (after wearing my previous pairs for way too long, BTW) and got some that have an IR-blocking coating that’s supposed to block face recognition cameras. Because that apparently needs to be a thing these days.

(I’m disappointed that these DuckDuckGo glasses don’t have a similar special coating. I like the company I got mine from, but I’d like to see more companies offering privacy-enhancing tech.)

Get an old bike that’s in good mechanical condition but looks shitty.

Alternatively, figure out how to take the bike with you on the bus. My transit system’s buses have bike racks on the front, but if yours doesn’t, get a folding bike (e.g. a Brompton).

Or a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act!