Welcome! I know it can be confusing at first.
FYI, Lemmy, MBin/KBin, and Piefed are all different servers. People often say Lemmy when they mean threadiverse as a whole. It's kinda like email though, even if you use gmail, I can email you from yahoo. The interface may vary a little, but the core function is the same.
As bbbbbbbbbbb said, every state not only has their own plates, but multiple plate designs. Some states, the variations will be completely different colors and number length. Absolutely no consistency.
I use an nvidia shield, and used the developer options to disable Google's built in launcher (and most other google related services). That's what it takes to keep your chosen launcher. I also used an app to remap the netflix button on that stupid toblerone they call a remote to act as a mute button, so accidentally pressing it doesn't cause me a minute of trying to get back to my content.
Better alternatives existing doesn't give Windows a free pass to be as shitty as they want.
You always have to ask who controls the polls, and how afraid are people to tell the truth. We've seen it here in the states. Polling orgs have stopped, changed metrics, or done selective polling when they are controlled by the fascists. Even small things like question verbiage can change a decisive "we hate this guy" into a "opinions are mixed".
One thing a lot of people here seem to miss: The onedrive app actually calls it "Backup". So users assume they have a copy of it on their computer and it is "backed up" to OneDrive.
But the other thing OneDrive does is turn on "Selective Sync", where it will actually delete the files off your local device "to free up storage". It looks like it is on your local computer, but when an app goes to use it, OneDrive quickly downloads it so the app is none the wiser that it wasn't actually there a moment ago. This is all seamless to the user, until one day they are offline and can't get to most of their files, or they lose access to their Microsoft account.
Everything a user needs to know is in the interface, Microsoft gives little symbols on the file to specify if there is a local copy or not, but most users have no idea what any of that means.
To top it off, just a little icing on the cake, if a user signs into the computer with a Microsoft account, bitlocker (full disk encryption) is automatically turned on, and the recovery key is shoved in their Microsoft account. This is convenient, but if they lose access to their Microsoft account, they can't log into the computer to get it, and they can't log into the website to get the bitlocker key. So even if their files are still on the PC, they have zero way to recover them.
Honestly, they've created a very convenient system, until it is impossible to recover anything. Business Environments have administrators that can help users by resetting their passwords or pulling a bitlocker key out of Intune, but for a home user? You're just SOL.
For anyone scrolling past and not paying a lot of attention, the above image is almost certainly fake. Look at the background and the foreground. The background is clearly a sunny mid day picture, but somehow the two are sidelit l, like from a big open window. The original may be faked too, but let's not fight slop with more slop. That just lets the propaganda win as "who knows what's true?"
We can already run x86 code on ARM, that wont be a viable backwards compatibility excuse for next gen consoles. Xbox and Playstation may try to claim it is a reason, but it will be clear cut bull shit from the start.
They're part of the problem. I'm sure they will sell plenty of copies, but they will make their money elsewhere.
GTA:O was why GTAV never got any expansion pack, and GTAVI took so long. GTA:O was all about the whales. It was miserable to play, because they focused on creating a grind which you could pay yourself out of, and it worked. They made ungodly amounts of money. That same thing will happen to GTAVI. Hopefully we get a good story out of the base game, but it is already being reported that things like "getting a haircut" are being locked behind the $100 SKU, and it's only going to get worse from there.
They will suck every dime they can out of whales while ignoring everybody else.
Running a gas station costs more than the raw cost of wholesale gasoline. You have to pay for delivery, employees, rent, maintenance, and taxes, at the very least.
Game spending is at an all time high, it's just all mobile game whales and Roblox.
I'd say the many games that died when Games for Windows Live went down. Many of them got patches to make them work again (officially), but many games just became permanently unplayable (officially).