After selling on eBay I once got the feedback that the buyer was deeply disappointed because what he had received was exactly what had been listed and shown in the photo, but nothing else, which somehow he had hoped for.

In all jurisdictions where I have personal experience, getting some “group of people” properly registered as a non-profit organization usually isn’t too much of a hassle.

That’s why the checkbox should be grayed out, so that you can’t uncheck it.

What is this referring to?

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326

[…], particularly when end users tend to despise particularly greedy live service business models.

Have you considered making your business models … not particularly greedy?

20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.

TIL that the first country to officially declare a national bird was India, with the Indian peacock in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_India

Most of the ISPs operating in my city’s fiber network are reasonably good and the one I’ve chosen is honestly good, so from my personal point-of-view, that headline seems perfectly relatable.

For most normal people in most normal places: yes, you can.

It doesn’t answer your questions about calendar and contacts, but you might still find it interesting to take a look at this project:

https://maddy.email/

I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …

Only if it’s installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

I like my stuff self-managed.

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.

I don’t believe this claim to be true. If you insist that it really is true, could you please point to the exact place in the US constitution that prohibits a permanent standing army?

Doesn’t need any comment:

int getCount() { return count; }

Absolutely needs a very extensive comment:

double getBojangleFlux { return fubar * .42; }

Fantastic! If that’s the level for lesser known then you’re perfectly right, most of the world’s most celebrated, successful and influential filmmakers then certainly count as lesser known.

The question was about “lesser-known movies”, but Wong Kar-Wai and his movies are (for obvious reasons) very well-known.

Okay. So how do we turn it off!?

This is probably not the reply you want, but as someone who (in the past 40+ years) has never owned a TV, I simply can’t refrain from asking: Have you considered simply not owning a TV?

Please ban all the stupid password rules.

Yes.

I would rather just get hacked […]

Eh, no.