https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation?wprov=sfla1

sqlite is technically just one C source file, so that’s definitely a script.

those uniform waves are creeping me out

I really can’t explain more than I already have. If you want to learn more, Wikipedia is a great resource for this. The article I linked and other articles linked within it would be the place to start.

So just a website?

Websites of all types are hosted by servers. These servers can run any kind of software they want in order to serve web pages to users. There are countless different options for server software (see just some of the options on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software?wprov=sfla1), and they can run on different operating systems (Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, macos, …). Two servers can serve very similar or even identical websites but run completely different software, and similarly, two servers can use the same software but serve totally different websites.

Basically it’s a free-for-all.

Hard to answer without some context. Got any examples for “formal website”?

In the fediverse an “instance” is any server which is running the software in question. For example, fosstodon is an instance of Mastodon. mastodon.social is also an instance of Mastodon.

I’ll be honest: none. I’m not making shady deals like that. Besides, shortcuts always come with giant caveats that you don’t know in advance. Like: how long is this guaranteed for? Will it magically prevent people from depriving others of their needs (murder, arson, imprisonment, torture, etc.)? How will it be sustained, and how would it affect the rest of life on Earth?

No no no, count me out. I’m not taking that deal just to find out it only applies for 1 month or some crap like that and people can still kill each other.

Plus, I like my fingers. I use them every day!

I know they do it sometimes in media but I don’t know - nor do I want to know - if it’s common at all in real life.

One of them will have to be minesweeper because I can pretty much play it endlessly. The other 4, I’m not so sure. I love some of suggestions other people made.

As much as I dislike about Discord, I can’t deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.

There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don’t get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord’s handling of it is just bad. It’s pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.

Haven’t tried Revolt and I likely can’t because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?

My bet is on Musk taking Trump’s place.

Nearly all existing media (radio, songs, TV, movies, YouTube videos, …) will eventually lose its appeal, as (for new born people at least) it will effectively be in a foreign language, that uses a completely separate mode of communication. You can’t share Back to the Future with anyone new anymore.

But all of Star Wars gets a remaster with a CGI light-speech dub.

Is this even true? I am fairly sure that Linux also has a graceful shutdown process, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked into it.

I think it’s funny for the exact same reason that this xkcd is funny: https://xkcd.com/1168/

Why does the majority of your post read like you don’t know these exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector

They’re fine, but as you mentioned in the first paragraph, lack of a standard is their main drawback. You could find two power supplies with the exact same connector but different voltage and polarity.

Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.

Floppy disk. Fight me.

Voyager error. It’s a gif of Star Trek, I think.

Don’t know, never been :P

I meant her. Mike and his guitar; Sarah and her violin; The computer and its speakers.