Yes, Singapore has national service. Male (note the inherent sexism) citizens and second gen PRs are required to perform 2 years of service in the armed forces, police, or civil defence (ambos, firies, etc). I have one kid in service and another about to.

I was in the electoral roll for more than thirty years before I was chosen for jury duty. The trial lasted for a week. It was eye-opening. I’d even go so far as to say that I had fun.

My wife received her call-up soon after she became a citizen. She’s done it twice.

A friend of a friend died from spilling a small amount of HF onto himself.

It’s only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.

In Singapore, it’s mostly the elderly. I saw a guy a few days ago with two phones playing it as he descended an escalator. The especially keen ones use four or five phones at a time.

Jump where? The alternatives currently require a small selection of hardware; are expensive; don’t offer the same level of service; or all the above.

I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I’d complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They’d promise it’d never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.

Others in the comments have similar stories.

You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

That would just further disenfranchise creators, most of whom don’t make much (if any) money. Why would corporations fork out money for rights to stories/scripts/music when they can wait 10 years and get it for free? We have enough issues currently with corps stealing our IP to train their AIs, and then regurgitate almost exact copies to directly compete against us.

I showed my wife the before and after of my home pages. She said, “They’re the same.”

Happy.

I just switched to Octopi. For me, it’s an almost perfect replacement. Plus it’s a local developer.

They could have bought second life a hundred times over and at least had something that worked (albeit poorly).

I agree. I looked at tailwind and couldn’t believe it was so popular. It defeats the entire purpose of CSS, and returns web dev back to the early 90s. Just stupid.

I use FitoTrack, which I found on FDroid. It’s reliant on third parties (Mastodon, etc) for sharing, but it does all that.

While well-intentioned, this is never going to happen. The last thing the Authorities want is civilians being incentivised to take the law into their own hands to win top awards. Ahmed was a very lucky man. It could have ended there and then for him. And he still ended up being shot.

Except all those times where you learnt how to do something when you set it up years ago, and haven’t touched it since because it just bloody works. Then when you need to upgrade to a new machine you have to learn it all again.

Been using Linux for thirty years and it still happens.

No, we had the Poms until WW2, now we have the yanks. Anyone that believes we’ve ever truly ‘stood alone’ is clearly deluded. Perhaps we might one day, but that would take a different sort of leadership. Likely the sort that most of us would consider objectionable.

Most illegal immigrants are poms that have overstayed their working-holiday visa.