Not the topic at hand but,

it seems Americans hate the idea of installing any third-party messaging apps

For me, I can talk to literally everyone I want to via the stock messaging app (iMessage in this case). I get no value from installing a second messaging app for a specific human or two.

Almost certainly. The facial ID is good enough that US customs didn’t even want to see my passport. Just a photo was enough to let me back in the country. I even significantly changed my hair between departure and arrival. Shit is scary.

I’ve been working to build a large collection of DS and 3DS games that I still enjoy to this day on the original hardware.

As a side rant, the 3DS/2DS really is a great console. It has a huge catelog of affordable games that can be purchased used from eBay and it doesn’t have the requirement to be online like the switch does. I took my switch off grid a while ago and was mega disappointed to find I couldn’t play a single game without “updates” because this wasn’t my “primary console” (a concept I didn’t realize existed or mattered).

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

And at least when I tried to pihole the tracking bullshit, it got mad and stopped working.