This is an EU4 / CK3 / HOI4 joke

And we are facing the effects of it as we're speaking. CGNAT and protocols like TURN were not invented without a reason.

Indeed. I would love to have a "modernized Morrowind" experience -- an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system -- but all of us know that it's just not gonna happen.

You see, shit like this is why I think some of the Eastern philosophers like Xunzi hit the mark on what "God" is: God is not a sentient being, God does not have a conscious mind like we do, God simply is.

Of course, those people didn't call this higher being the God, they called it "Heaven", but I think it's really referring to the natural flow of the world, something that is not controlled by us. Maybe the closest equivalent to this concept in the non-Eastern world is "Luck" -- people rarely assign "being lucky" to the actions of <insert deity here>, it simply happens by the flow of this world, it is not the action of an all-knowing, all-powerful deity. But like I said, it's merely the closest approximation of the Heaven concept I can think of.

The side effect coming out of this revelation is that, you can't blame the Heaven for your own misfortunes. The Heaven is not a sentient being after all!

Breaking news: not all parents are good at parenting.

It is obviously talking about "the continent Europe, excluding Russia". What is there to be confused about?

Did I say "some"? I think I did.

GNOME developers seem to have some sort of a weird "vision" for their software. If your bug report falls within their vision, good for you. When your bug report doesn't, it's insta WONTFIX.

The FDO icon theme fiasco occurred merely a few days ago.

"it just maxes out the ram and then does nothing." is absolute nonsense. The programs need memory to operate.

If your RAM is maxed out and the programs seem to operate just as fine, the OS is doing something behind the scenes, it's just a matter of what that something is. And memory swapping / virtual memory is a well-known method of alleviating RAM overuse, at the cost of murdering your SSD/HDD lifespan.

Tell me you know nothing about Chinese EVs without telling me you know nothing about Chinese EVs. BYD's best sellers are actually plug-in hybrids, which is in no way "stolen" from Tesla.

Lots of social medias require a phone number nowadays. If you don't add a phone number, at best they annoy you everyday to "secure your account", at worst you can't even login.

It sucks.

It's so exclusive to the US that I didn't even understand what OP was saying before reading the comment section for clues.

Blue bubbles, green bubbles? Wtf is that and how is it related to Android/iOS.

For reference, I live in South East Asia and use Android, but I have never heard my friends using iOS complain about some kinda bubble colour.

I only expose services on IPv6, for now that seems to work pretty well - very few scanners (I encounter only 1 or 2 per week, and they seem to connect to port 80/443 only).