System wide ad blockers can't block a lot of ads, namely same-domain ads or those that are built into the html. Much rarer than the external page kind (DNS ones) thankfully.

Even assuming ripping is legal (it usually isn't ,though it should be), the effort required is significantly higher, the cost is significantly higher, and at least for TV shows, you usually suffer from huge delays as you wait for the season box set to be released. This is even assuming they bother to release a bluray in 4k with HDR.

Netflix and other services (assuming it even has the content you want) have fixed these issues, with the massive downside of no 4k, lower bitrate, and no ownership at the end of it.

Piracy, while more illegal, has the content you want, at 4k, usually a higher bitrate, with minimal effort, no cost, and no delays. Now that I'm employed, I don't pirate music or games anymore, because the services offered are good enough that piracy isn't worth the effort. But for movies & TV shows, the services offered are simply terrible.

It's not stealing, it's unauthorised redistribution. They don't lose anything from piracy, except for potential customers, which is a pretty intangiable concept. Don't think it's even remotely as bad as going into a tech store and taking all their DVR's, or even literal piracy by chasing down another boat with guns and taking their cargo.

You need 2 GPUs (essentially) for GPU passthrough to work correctly. I gave it a go once and it never worked correctly. Absolutely right for non GPU apps though, or with some VM's, older games.

I'm not sure I would. Edge is trash, it keeps shoving the AI bullshit, all the MSN news stuff, ads for cheaper shopping, all in your face when you first start up. While you can turn it off, it gets annoying doing that every time you reinstall or spin up a new VM. Chrome, for all its faults, is a lot less annoying freshly installed.

Not big enough to force companies to make large changes. The US is, China and India are. But what about Australia or New Zealand? Or any of the individual south american countries? Too many changes, microsoft or one of the other big players will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

Until you can't game at 4k, 120hz, with an HDR high resolution display.

But, from the most recent time I tried it: Display scaling doesn't always work (150% UI). 2x worked fine, it is supposed to work fine with wayland, but wayland didn't seem to like nvidia drivers. Many anti cheats don't work. WoW didn't work (though it should based off the wine compatibility reviews). Bluetooth had issues (didn't reconnect on startup I think).

While I'd love to change to linux, every time it's always been inferior for my personal use cases. As windows gets worse, and linux gets better, eventually the time will come when I switch. But for a great many people, the support simply isn't there yet.

Hey, I'll change to use the N version of windows if it'll get me this feature. Forced software on your devices is something I loathe.

Nah, it's the third world country with internet worse than russia.

Eh, even if you count it, it should half for each step removed from you, as the non-existant grandchild's other parent will still have a child, just with someone else rather than with your child.

It's like saying that killing someone 1000 years ago will also kill all their descendants, which is technically true. But most of the descendants will still live, just one different parent (grandparent, etc).

No? If you're a cis straight person, you're going to be attracted to people of the other gender. For most people, this is both attraction to the behaviour (attracted to femininity or masculinity respectively), and the attraction to the specific gentials.

If I was 100% in that cis straight guy box, then for a female trans person to meet those requirements, they'd have to be fairly indistingishable from a cis female. That's very rare, for example most people would not have had a vaginoplasty. If I was to date a trans guy, then I'd personally be put off by the masculinity, even if they had the genitalia I was into.

Personally, I'm not 100% straight because I'm more flexibile with the genitalia, so long as they have that femininity. But I 100% understand why other people wouldn't date a trans person because they're trans, even if they were fine being friends with them. After all, I wouldn't date a guy even though I'm fine being friends with them, that doesn't make me homophobic.

Libraries are ethical because they pay for the books. If we're limited to only physical books, then they buy new ones every ~8-12 rentals. Additionally (though I couldn't verify this through a search), I've heard they also pay more to buy them.

4 lanes per direction? That does seem like overkill. Howabout expanding the road between christchurch and dunedin to 2 lanes (per direction), especially between ashburton and christchurch which is 1 lane (per direction) for the vast majority of it, and people commute it for work.

1 lane means no safe overtaking, and some parts don't have overtaking lanes for tens of kilometres. Milk trucks are the worst for driving slowly, though campervans are also pretty annoying.

Having high speed rail between the towns would be ideal, but christchurch's public transport is terrible, and proper rail would require a complete rework of all (or virtually all) the rail in the country. Busses might help reduce the rush hour load, but since they're limited to 90km (I think), it wouldn't work without also expanding the moterway.