nyan

I have often mused on how to remotely demolish billboards along highways.

Rocket launcher? If you're in the US you might even be able to obtain one legally. If you can't, maybe a truck-mounted trebuchet would work.

You would think, but the NDP are seen as "unelectable".

And even then, most people are still choosing to go to the three cities and immediate outlying areas where the most economic influence and possible social connections are - Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.

This is the real issue. Having grown up in a dot on the map in the middle of the Ontario boreal forest on the arctic watershed side of the Shield, I can tell you that it isn't all that much harder to build infrastructure there than it is further south (sometimes takes a little longer because of longer winters, that's all). It isn't even horrible land agriculturally as long as you take the shorter growing season into account when you're choosing what to plant. So more of the land is usable than you might think. However, people want to go to the places where people already are.

Fewer homes are built -> municipality receives less money -> municipality can't afford to build out infrastructure like water, sewers, and roads because they can barely afford to maintain the existing stuff -> even fewer homes are built. My cat can figure that out, so either PP is dumber than my cat (possible), or his goal isn't what he claims it is (likely).

There's no winning a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, especially when having no moles (=viewers) left also means that you lose.

There is a certain unfortunate irony in the realization that one of the easiest ways to avoid this kind of thing is to buy a commercial digital signage panel intended for advertising instead of a consumer TV.

For search engines, this is an interesting list: A look at search engines with their own indexes. It doesn't cover every possible Bing frontend, but it gives you some idea of where else to try if your default search engine gives you nothing.

As for web browsers, a short practical list broken down by rendering engine looks like this:

• Webkit-based: Safari
  • Blink-based: Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera
• Gecko-based: Firefox, LibreWolf, Tor Browser
  • Goanna-based: Pale Moon

Those are all under active development.

This is almost ten years old, and NPAPI plugins have been desupported by pretty much everything except Pale Moon, which forked from Firefox so long ago that it also still supports XUL.

The answer is more than one, because Firefox has several forks of its own, and as far as I know all of them (even Pale Moon, which is highly divergent and never supported Manifest V2) support uBlock.

I agree that all Chromium-based browsers are going to drop support sooner or later.

Makes sense on ultrawides.

In which case, the question becomes: what percentage of users are actually using ultrawides? If it isn't >50%, then the default should be the setting most appropriate to non-ultrawides. Unless you're going to autodetect screen resolution and set the button's location appropriately.

This is not rocket science, but Windows has been blowing it for quite some time now.

I know, and it's terrifying.

You can't really blame them. It'll be a lot easier to pick up the pieces without a bunch of lookie-loos getting in the way (and they don't need even the occasional would-be looter, either). The visitors can wait until residents have settled back in and surviving shops and services are back up.