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If I had to identify a game that radically changed the public perception of videogames, that would probably be The Legend of Zelda.
It was one of the earliest examples of modern gaming, changing the game design from an “arcade” standard to something that was more suited for home consoles.

Because the average US citizen doesn’t speak a 2nd language while most of Europeans know English, so the focus shifts towards that

I had the Pixel buds too, the sound was excellent but after a couple years the wire plastic got all sticky and stiff so I had to throw them out

I got a pair of KZ ZSN ProX that have a removable cable you can swap easily with a USB-C one. I had them for 4 years now and they’re really durable: for the price (about 20$) the sound is insanely good and if you spend the extra 10$ for the cable you can plug them wherever you want.
Best purchase ever

I feel unhappy

Also it avoids that the first 10 comments will be from people trolling you for the exact thing you used as an example instead of answering the question

and was asking what you need to tinker with to make it suitable for you.

For myself I like to add a couple addons, like u-Block origins with automatic cookie reject and containers for when I have to browse IG or Google stuff, plus some tweaks in the about:config for disabling telemetry and such.

My point is that many people either don’t feel like going through this process, even if it takes just a few minutes, or don’t care about privacy at all, they just fancy an ad blocker. So they may end up installing Brave.
I’ll give you one of many examples I have: I’ve taken guitar lessons for the last year and a half and every time my teacher put a background track on youtube we had to sit through 30 seconds of ads, while he complained about it every single time. For the first month I tried to persuade him to install FF + u-Block, but he kept saying things like “I’m not a computer guy”. Even after I offered to do it myself, he was afraid that “there may be some sort of virus” so at one point I just stopped suggesting it. A couple months ago he installed Brave because a frend of his told him to and that was it.

And that’s because what me and you see as “barely tinkering”, as you put it, other people see it as this herculean labor they cannot even imagine to approach. Of course this is because of a lack of culture on the matter, but most of people don’t care about making a culture at all, they just want to be spoon fed with stuff that works, no matter what happens under the hood.

Dude I use firefox as main browser too, I’m not saying that brave is better, read my comment again.

What I’m saying is that you and I are not the average user. Our moms are the average user, our brother that got a DUI last friday is the average user, our anti-vax aunt is the average user…

No, in fact the <u>average</u> user doesn’t tinker with Chrome either

The typical conversation I have is:

• Hey, how don’t you have ads on Youtube?
• Well, its easy: you install Firefox and then…

and that’s where I loose most of the people, that extra step.

Me and you can go down on the about:config all day long to dissect every aspect of privacy we care about. For the other 90% of people, even just going to Mozilla extensions manager and downloading u-Block Origin is too much.

Bear-proof trash can theorem…

Because vanilla Firefox has to be tinkered with to get the best out of it and the average user is not able to do it

“Cut my life into pieces…”

Stick a chewing gum on the thing’s speaker and start singing songs with very dirty and explicit lyrics, like gangsta rap and Bloodhound Gang.
All day long, everyday.
Persuade your colleagues to do the same.
They will have an endless string of report notifications they can’t do shit about.
Fight smart.

Edit: still the best thing to do is unionize as many others already suggested, but fighting on more than one front is a good tactic, wars are won by exhausting your opponent.

Japan: “did you commit war crimes?”
Israel: “i’m outraged”
Japan:“that isn’t a ‘no’…”

Were you thinking about Avril under the shower?

surprised Pikachu face

Oh gosh I really hope no one could have predicted this and used these information to make themself and their friends short the market to gain an incredible amount of money

If you need a FOSS, cross platform GUI for bootable USB sticks, Raspberry Pi Imager is a really good solution.
It is mainly used to flash SD cards for RPIs, but also you can burn any ISO on any support with it.

I could say, “If you aren’t addicted, then just quit.”

Did anyone actually tell you that 1 beer a week is too much? Because it’s not a real case scenario in my mind.
And even if they really did it’s probably their own problem, and you don’t really have to defend yourself for doing that.
In any other case, if a person tells you “hey, tone it down with the booze” you probably should.