Off the top of my head: Half Life 2! OpenTTD, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft.

You need to meet more young people they don't know either specifically because companies like google and apple try to obscure competition by making their way seem like the only way.

Largely agree. I think the bamboozlers were there the whole time - after all, a lot of early radio was for propaganda purposes. But I do think most companies try to do things the right way, and there was a point when marketing was seen as simple outreach.

Discord has real advantages over many of those, and communities are slow to pick up and move. It'll take either a very bad decision from discord or a good competitor. I want that competitor to be Matrix, but it's far from perfect.

I'm glad I skipped release day. Definitely waiting to buy it on sale after it's been fixed with updates and DLC. Sucks to see companies treat buyers like testers.

That saying isn't trying to explain all of IP law. It's referring to products where there is no way to buy a copy you have permanent possession of. There's a reason you don't see the same fervor around pirating books.

The artist's personal website makes it sound like they're a mix of AI, photography, and other tools: https://www.kylebranchesi.com/about

Or tape over the camera hole.

I agree with the thoughts on second opinions. It sounds like you cope fine with your current situation already, and to be honest I'm skeptical much would change. At your age, the way you speak would be a very ingrained muscle memory thing. Maybe you could change it with some concerted effort but I suspect even with the surgery you'd still tend to speak the way you currently do.

Any particular reason to not use Firefox with addons like ublock? Just curious

I just bought Fallout 4 GOTY for $5 the other day. Look forward to doing the same in a few years when Cyberpunk 2077 has a final release with everything fixed and polished. There's so many good old games, why buy anything brand new.

And this doesn't forgive devs for buggy initial releases either, because I'm not throwing money at something until it's actually done.

You're talking about real privacy, the critiques above are all about exposure reduction (incorrectly framed as privacy). Good retention policies are still important for situations like trying to delete something that you regret posting.

An example I could think of from the other site is the very common occurrence of posting some relationship questions and then deleting them later so that the person they're about can't stumble onto them. In that case you want finding the thing you deleted to be nontrivial enough that it can't accidentally be found. Someone with both the skills and knowledge about what they're looking for may still find it, because it was once public, but that's a different threat.