I would say so, yes.

COVID definitely played a role in moving the bridge community to mostly online - but even during pre-covid times, I have seen physical clubs dwindling gradually. We had a couple of local bridge clubs, going down in numbers as days go by, where the players’ average age was deceased.

People getting busier and busier caused them to look for places to play deals after deals in a shorter period of time, and what’s better for it than an online platform ?

One good thing is that bridge is getting more and more competitive in recent times, and players have switched from “leisurely play” to “improving fast”. Unfortunately, online play has made bridge popular than ever, but the social aspect is diminishing, and there’s no way to deny that.

As for myself, I learnt bridge from my dad in my teens, with actual cards and human players in front of me, but then there was a hiatus of about 2 decades (you know the drill, life happens, family, kids, blah blah) - and after all this time when I got back to bridge again, online is what I see everywhere.

Not that it is necessarily bad - online platforms brought people “closer” from all over the world - but I do miss the bidding box, LOL.

The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.

The only paid app that I have is Moon+ Reader Pro.

I read a boatload of ebooks on my device, and this has been my ebook-reader of choice for a while. I found it to be so good that I did the IAP, and stopped using Librera Reader.

For all that matters, I am a huge supporter of FOSS apps (that’s the reason I have only one paid app lol) - but Moon+ reader Pro beats Librera in two areas - Librera is pretty slow when it tries to open a huge file, and Librera also can’t download book covers like Moon+ does.

I did that just now, and it certainly seems to help ! Thank you kind stranger !

Bang on !

I don’t know how I missed that. But thanks for pointing that out !

Someone is really obsessed with a kissing Tyson…

Now that you say that, it clearly looks like an AquaTurtle humping the shark’s a$$.

How do I unsee this?

In an instance like this, our riders have 24/7 access to Rider Support agents who will help them navigate the situation in real time

Clearly that’s what a human driver would do, but I guess those Rider Support Agents work for free, so why not fire the driver? /s

I might come across as an obsolete dinosaur (which I probably am) - but I really enjoyed the tracks from Hitman game series, especially Exploration from Hitman 2 : Silent Assasin, and then became a fan of anything composed by Jesper Kyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGA0y40_38

Your reasoning makes perfect sense, and now I wish I didn’t brute-force it head-first. Thanks for pointing that out !

Bingo. I guess you got my reason behind flagging the square above the “4”.

But I am still stuck… May be brute force is the only way out…

I think so too, but so have been unable to reason anything. Heading in brute-force is obviously the last resort for me, but was looking for something logical before I do that.

Because the two covered squares to the left of the “4-with-flag-on-top-of-it” can have only 1 mine (because of the “2” there), which means the “3” needs one more mine, which can only be on top of that “4”.

At least that’s my reasoning.

Francicles…

I just read about this extension today. Seems interesting. The description says It’s supposedly doing more than just switching the UA.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

Not going back to Jerboa unless the basic feature of searching contents other than just communities is implemented. I find this fundamental feature sorely lacking in Jerboa while every other app around there have this.

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https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/27

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Kind of surprising, because this is pretty basic feature, and has been open for over two years.

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I take it that you were referring to Mull (Browser) and not MullVad (VPN service).

This article seems to assume that advertisers don’t want our identifying information, and are clamoring for an alternative to tracking that lets them measure ad performance anonymously, which is just not true. Being able to uniquely identify users and target them is a feature, and getting more data points from the browser just helps add to their profiles.

The good thing is that Firefox has got some decent forks like Librewolf, which are worth exploring if one is okay with slightly delayed updates.