American Balkanisation could be in the cards

Yep, I adore it

Feature not a bug, you not allowed to receive mail

Both possible tbh

Mostly they use it due to vendor lock-in tbh

Microsoft and Apple both use a sly tactic of offering the OS for cheap, and some products for cheap, but with the express intention that everything is so interlinking you can’t replace just one thing, you have to replace it all.

Which is too much time and effort for most governments

FOSS

Nah, Balkanisation is more likely

Funny thing is, only about 5-10 years ago, the UK government was trying to do “ALL FOSS EVERYWHERE”

But the pushback from old fogies unwilling to change was so hard that they basically did like one department (Department of Work and Pensions) before they rolled it back.

It did save that one department a lot of money though.

Ooh okay, I’ll look into it then

There’s theories that the Cyclops myth came about from ancient people’s finding fossil elephant skulls from the period where European Elephants were a species

(They went extinct in Europe 50,000-10,000 years ago)

The Galápagos penguin, which lives in the Northern Hemisphere, is the only species that do

But also, they’re barely in the Northern Hemisphere, literally only a few degrees above the equator

They vary by publisher

It feels too much like Mac for my liking

In no particular order;

• Unpaywall - for research papers tries to find legal and free copies of them
• Stylus - overwrite style on a per-website basis (I use the Compact Subscriptions style on YouTube, for example)
• uBlacklist - additional to uBlock that deletes some URLs from search results (such as an anti-AI list, or Pinterest from image search)
• Surmount - jumps over paywalled news articles using archive.ph

Bazzite

Great for Mac users, but too dissimilar to windows UI

I mean, if I’m already showering, sometimes I’ll brush whilst showering

But 99% of time, the sink

May he burn in hell

I’d say that anything else isn’t “Smart”, it’s just a phone

Computer

Well yeah, a computer isn’t a phone

The Definition I’ve always been taught:

a phone with the ability to install and run applications from an application repository (often called an “app store”) without needing to “sideload” via USB

So no, your definition isn’t inclusive of Smart Phones

Pre-smart would have the applications only be those set by a provider, and no way (without manually sideload installing via USB) to install extra applications

Edit: apparently I can’t spell “applications”, put it as “aplications”