SlurpingPus

The constitution of some countries in the West includes the privacy of correspondence. Idk how many countries and how that privacy is interpreted in any particular cases.

IMO it should be argued, in Europe, that this covers electronic correspondence too, and thus ChatControl and its ilk are unconstitutional.

Also Wiktionary imported the whole Webster dictionary from early 20th century sometime in the beginning of their operation, and apparently Webster was a fan of thoroughly describing each of the twenty meanings of a word. Which tradition continues in Wiktionary to this day — instead of giving three-word descriptions for two or three meanings tops, as other online dictionaries do.

My one complaint is that the thesaurus at Wiktionary is so-so, being exhaustive only for things like euphemisms, which naturally have many synonyms. In most cases, Thesaurus.com is a better resource.

I'll break the mold by creating my own paradox, it'll be known as SlurpingPus' Non-self-referential Paradox.

There's a small strategy game called ‘Antiyoy’, with simplistic mechanics, which works for short-ish games: you can do a stint while waiting in queue or such. Iirc ‘Antiyoy Classic’ is entirely offline, while the regular one has an online mode. Both have no ads and near zero permissions, unless something changed since I last played.

You can try ‘Diplicity’ for an online strategy a-la ‘Risk’ where you bargain and do alliances with other players, until one of you wins the whole thing. There's no randomness. It's an implementation of the board game ‘Diplomacy’.

‘Hocus’ is a nice spatial puzzle with impossible geometry. Iirc it requires payment for additional levels, but has no ads.

The app ‘Fabularium’ runs text adventures, i.e. games where you type your actions and read the description of what happens. There are a myriad of such adventure games, many with novel mechanics. You'll need to download the games themselves separately, mainly from IFDb.org. ‘Fabularium’ isn't the only app that runs text adventures, but I like it and it supports more formats than some other apps do.

OpenTTD is fine on a tablet — though controls aren't specially adapted, they just emulate a mouse. On a phone screen the controls are too small and everything is crowded.

The enlightened know that it's just a super-condensed retelling of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's and Alastair Smith's ‘The Dictator's Handbook’.

Regarding email, consider buying a personal domain for your email address. You specify the ip addresses of the email provider in the domain's DNS, and on the provider's side specify that the domain is for your email box. This way, if the email provider doesn't work out, you only need to change the DNS records to another provider, instead of changing the email address on accounts (which is often impossible).

However, not all email providers support custom domains, and some only do that on paid tiers.

Did you account for timezones? First fights started at 3:40 a.m. Kyiv time, which is UTC+2.

254 domestic flights
171 car with just 1 person
41 domestic train

So, yet more ways the US shits on the atmosphere while removed about China's emissions.

Thanks for the explanation. As it happens, one of my irks about the Windows version of Transmission is that it doesn't remember the position of the torrent-properties window. I want the list on the left, the details on the right — particularly since Transmission reuses the details window, essentially treating it as a pane. This worked splendidly on MacOS.

Technically the original ‘Dracula’ is Austrian/Hungarian film ‘Dracula's Death’, released in either 1921 or 1923. Considering that Dracula is either the most- or second-most-frequently adapted character ever, I wouldn't be surprised if more films were made between this one and the 1931 one.

Also, funny thing, a Spanish-language version of ‘Dracula’ was filmed simultaneously with the 1931 film, on the same sets. It's considered better made, because the crew had access to the dailies of the English version and could adjust the direction based on the flaws they noticed.

macOS are even worse in this regard IMO. Everything is just totally inconsistent

Why do you mention macOS if you haven't used it?