I think it's a bug. I tried watching something a few hours ago and it also wouldn't start. There's a bunch of CORS errors in the console. It also won't play on my phone either. I'm using Firefox on both, so it's kind ironic that the "privacy-respecting" frontend won't work on the (relatively) more privacy-respecting browser.
e2e encryption makes it difficult to provide fully cross-platform messaging experience
Why?
I can easily encrypt a message on my x86_64 Windows desktop, send it to my x86_64 Linux laptop, and also my ARM64 Android phone, and be able to decrypt it perfectly.
Haven't ads always been recommendations in some roundabout way? Regular ads are technically just a company recommending their own product/service to you (whether you need it or not).
It shouldn't. The only two occasions where that might happen is if you used an infected Windows installer after the wipe or if it's a rootkit, though the latter is much less likely.
I love Zorin, probably for more superficial reasons than most. I like a clean UI and Zorin provides that by default, no fiddling. I get that people like customisability and ricing and all that, and if I could design my OS as easily as I could write CSS then I probably would, but I've yet to find something that lets me do that. And even if I do find it, Zorin still looks good and just works, which is most of what I care about.
!The powerful being/orchestrator is GLaDOS, the orphan is of course Chell, and the mental illness is Wheatley. I know that last one is a bit of a stretch, but he technically is if you consider that attaching him to GLaDOS to inhibit her "brain" functions is what he was designed for.!<
!The engineer would be Gordon Freeman, the creatures would be the enemies from Xen, the security forces would be the soldiers, and the elderly man in a suit would of course be the G-Man!!<
A powerful being mentally tortures an orphaned girl through isolation and deadly "games" with dangerous machinery. Later, she begins hearing the voice of a mental illness, and through its advice manages to behead the orchestrator.
Everyone here is saying it's fantastic and much better compared to 10 years ago, which is completely true.
However, the state of VR gaming is still pretty dire. You can get it working on some hardware setups, but not others, and it's nontrivial to find out what's going wrong. I've lost a couple of days trying to diagnose problems on multiple distros and it just doesn't seem to work for me. It may work for you, but the chances are a lot lower than if you were to just play normal games.
Deletion on many online services is "soft". Which is, exactly as you say, just hiding it and preventing it from contributing to various counts/statistics.
I imagine it's named like that because "hide" implies "hide from myself only" (like hiding a dialog box), whereas delete implies something more permanent.
Also, when a user wants to get rid of something the first word they'll look for tends to be "delete", so why make it harder for them to find that button by naming it something unconventional like "hide from all"? Even if it's technically more accurate, users just don't care.
I also imagine some services keep some things for legal reasons, even after "deletion".
Fuck you, well done.