US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it’s difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.

Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I’m sure.

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I’m running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven’t actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.

My title was intentionally flipant.

No, your title was rude and condescending. “Flippant” is a different thing.

Sometimes there is so much configuration options a GUI would scare most users.

Or if it didn’t, it would be because the dev limited the options displayed so much that it would cease to be useful for most users. (This is especially true when different users are likely to use different subsets of options rather than having the majority of them using the same subset.)

Ride a bike.

“Very dark. Likely be eaten by grue.”

Nope, Star Trek Online.

The majority of the gameplay is committing war crimes in the name of galactic peace, but the players know the real endgame is space Barbie.

(It’s probably not my favorite game of all time, but it’s the MMO I play most often.)

Dual boot is too inconvenient. Just go Linux cold-turkey and run Windows in a VM if you have to.

Why would they stop? That revenue model has been working just fine for Wikipedia for over a decade now.

Aww, alternativeto.net isn’t that bad…

Alabama white sauce is hardly “mustard based.” One teaspoon per cup of mayo is nothing; you’d barely taste it. It’s Carolina-style sauce you have an irrational hatred for, not Alabama-style.

Kinky!

What have you been doing?

I need to study more, I guess!

Everything you wrote is basically the same as how it works in the US, except for that last sentence about never calling four-year programs “college.”

Apparently French works the same way (“university” = tertiary, “college” = high school), at least if Duolingo is to be believed.

The kind of place that the US calls “community college” would be called a “polytech” here.

I’m not necessarily doubting you, but I would’ve guessed “polytech” would be more like a “trade school” (where you go to learn skills for blue-collar jobs, like welding, plumbing, auto repair, etc.) than a “community college” (where you go for two years to earn an associates’ degree in stuff like liberal arts or business or nursing, possibly before transferring somewhere else to continue towards your bachelors’).

(That’s despite the fact that “polytech” around here can also refer to four-year engineering schools, although ones that are lower-tier than research universities. For example, the former “Southern Polytechnic State University” (“Southern Poly”) vs. “Georgia Institute of Technology” (“Georgia Tech”) here in GA. Ironically, the latter is self-deprecatingly nicknamed “North Avenue Trade School,” LOL!)

Not Olympics; some other international sports thing. Paralympics? Commonwealth Games? Some other competition that happens in the alternate years when an Olympics isn’t? IDK.