Even if you don’t count desktop applications like VSCode or Discord or whatever that are written in primarily JavaScript due to those arguably just being packed inside their own little browser engine that they ship with, still yes.

Node.js is an extremely widely used JavaScript runtime environment that people are using to write server back ends and command line utilities and god knows what else in JavaScript.

I cannot express how pleased I am that the company I work for went all-in on remote work during the pandemic and allowed the lease to lapse on most of their office space while sub-letting the rest. RTO is a literal impossibility for us now. We simply don’t all fit in the remaining office space we have, and assuming new leases on more office space obviously looks terrible on quarterly reports.

There are many other ways that the company I work for is miserable, but I take the small victories where I can.

Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

I have about the same in Elite Dangerous. What does that mean?

Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.

Who here do you think is suggesting otherwise?

They’re not saying we are?

I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?

I disagree about the batteries. Give me replaceable AA cells any day over a built-in Li-ion. Rechargeable AAs are readily available and quickly swappable if you keep hot spares. Much better option for long term serviceability.