Not using Chrome. Mobile Firefox has adblocking on Android.

On iOS, you can use Orion by Kagi, which is webkit-based, but supports Firefox plugins. UBlock Origin for Firefox works well there too.

Or Brave. Or AdGuard.

Was that a songbird followup?

Indeed it was.

> [...] users forked Songbird and created a Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible derivative under the name Nightingale.

[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)]

OpenRocket has a little optimizer built in but of course it neglects structural integrity which it knows nothing of…

I helped out with a user interface redesign of OR many years ago. It was pretty incredibly unintuitive back then, and many hobby rocketeers paid for Rocksim instead.

The same sort of thing is happening for the 3d printer laws. Some company is trying to legislate its own software into ubiquity (guns first, then copyright enforcement) and then double-dip by charging both IP holders and printer manufacturers for their "services".

This was the thing the saws-all (or whatever it was called, the brake that stops you from cutting your fingers off with the table saw) tried, right? I don't know if it succeeded but the idea was a government mandate for an otherwise good idea. Everyone then pays more.

SawStop

Undersea cables. With a shark biting one.

How is fuel consumption per mile 5x but fuel burn per hour 10x?

I was not allowed to use a calculator in my high school calculus class but I was permitted to (and did) use a slide rule.

For me I think a laptop is good enough for distraction-free typing as long as it has no internet access.