Microsoft should have embraced Android when it was clear that was winning out on the mobile front and shipped its own version of the OS.
Microsoft could have courted OEMs to use their flavour of Android instead by giving them a cut of appstore revenue and enticing developers over by offering sweeter revenue share deals as well. It's all Android, a few shims for Google services and it'd be almost no effort for a developer to put their app on both storefronts and get more revenue as a result.
OEM's don't make money from the play store, only Google does. But no OEM has the clout and ability to draw developers over to run their own store - many have tried and they're a barren wasteland of malware and out of date crapware. You can't ship a device without an AppStore so Google wins and Phones get more expensive as a result.
In a world where the Play store has genuine competition and consumers can move from one device to another with the knowledge that all their favourite apps will still be available, we could have had a much better ecosystem.
It's not too late, either, all Microsoft has to do is step up.
An Ubuntu like alternative exists and has existed for over a decade. Canonical abandoned it a few years back and someone else is trying to develop it but there's basically zero interest or traction.
Why doee trump keep hiring these grifters? The poor guy has such bad luck, literally everyone associated with him has turned out to be a liar or a grifter.
If only there was some kind of correlation, some common factor that could help us understand why that is.
I mean, this is mostly borne from a fundamental misunderstanding of what "Private Browsing" mode is and was meant to be.
When you open an incognito tab on Chrome, it literally says "Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity."
It also says
Your activity might still be visible to:
Websites that you visit
Your employer or school
Your Internet service provider
Fuck using Chrome and I'm not defending Google at all here, but they never once claimed Incognito was anything more than it was.
In 99 cases out of 100, you won't be able to hand craft assembly better than a good compiler can - partly due to compilers being much better and partly due to the skill level required. 20 or 30 years ago compilers weren't as good and a reasonably competent person could craft more optimised assembly but these days compilers are pretty damn good and you need some extra level of ability to best the compiler.
However, there's still that 1 time out of 100 and given how resource intensive ffmpeg is, it's worth spending that extra time to hyper optimise the code because it'll pay off massively.
I think those seed boxes you mentioned are the main reason OP isn't using all their bandwidth. In the same way you suggest limiting total connections, those downloading will also have a limited number of connections so of course you'll prioritise those on a gigabit+ uplink than those on slower links.
I do this because I hate super long URL's, but is this actually a problem for privacy? Does it not actually fuck with the tracking because now two separate people have got the same tracking Params? (Genuine question).
I can't help but notice you have disagreed with the comment above you, then gone on to explain that the exception to your disagreement is the exact scenario they described.
That's literally the only reason I'm supportive of this. Super mega corporate mergers are usually bad for consumers, but those fuckwits are so much worse.
I picked up a used EV with about 20,000 miles on it and it still felt like new.