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Most countries already have roads. That doesn't make them inexpensive, just means the cost was already paid.

And it's easier than ever before for governments to host their own Mastodon instance on their government domain.

So is a "cloud server".

If it was true. But surely we are not believing this dictator at face value with no proof whatsoever, right? Right?

Yeah, sounds about right. This isn't a case of "Google maliciously takes down a Google Maps competitor" like people are saying.

So don't install it, use a better app. It's just some app, not part of the system like iCloud on iOS.

Strategy? You are assuming there was any intent behind it. The reviewers in third world countries are probably spending 30 seconds per app and are bound to make mistakes. Which in this case was reverted.

I'm not saying what's "the correct play" or not, I'm refuting the claim all Chromium-based browsers are immediately affected, because I know of at least one that will keep V2 support.

But I will keep using Vivaldi. It will take me the same time to migrate to Firefox regardless if I do it today or a year from now when Vivaldi drops V2 support. I have nothing to gain by migrating sooner, but potentially much to gain by waiting.

• Vivaldi might decide to keep support indefinitely,
• Vivaldi might decide to update the built-in ad blocker to use UBlock Origin tech,
• Google might backtrack the decision (hah!),
• a whole different browser I want to try might come out in the meantime and I'd have to migrate twice,
• Firefox might die after losing Google funding due to the monopoly ruling.
• I will build a new PC in a year and it will be a good time for a software refresh,
• Or, the most likely, none of this will happen, and I will migrate to Firefox then, if that's the best move at the time.

You are right, not sure why I said "dark side", I was thinking of craters that are in permanent shadow (a bunch of those on poles).

In space you need even more cooling, unless you put them on the dark side of the Moon or somehow keep maintaining an orbit that's always in shadow.

You need to do that either way, cryonics has the goal of extending your life, not make you immortal, obviously. Even if somehow the tech works out, you are still going to die at some point, probably in a traffic accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUo1WgIjQ0