While it makes sense immediately to me, it was still surprising that one can have a different legal name in different countries.

It’s a real phenomenon I’ve only observed online, luckily not in person as usually people who travel here care about learning about the world. It’s not a top 10 tourist spot.

Online examples I’ve seen plenty of:

• Assuming someone is from the same jurisdiction, especially in legal matters, or asking “which state are you in”?
• Going into a non-US national instance and making one-sentence replies about Democrats and Republicans on irrelevant political matters (most countries like their self-identified republicans)
• Going into a non-US national site and assuming a company name is an American company with a similar name (reasonable, but still an example). For example, we have an NBC, and it’s very different.

I think the “Speak English!” example isn’t defaultism as much as it’s chauvinism. Defaultism seems more like telling them to leave if they don’t speak English.

Agreed. It’s a conversation topic, I fully agree.

What’s the cheapest way to gaslight these data points?

Let’s say one has $10 to spare, what would you buy to ruin their model?

After looking around the demoscene, I know how enormous a few megabytes can be.

Like @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone said, that doesn’t mean much when most mainstream software is being made so inefficient and wasteful.

If this were about making more affordable options, I’d rather we focus on refurbishing older laptops than making new lower-end ones.

I’m annoyed that a lot of the sites I browse don’t have RSS feeds, and I’ve had to do some really tiresome hacks just to get some to work (for example, even tools like FreshRSS’s HTML parser doesn’t tell you the reason a feed broke, so there’s a dozen different things to adjust blindly until it works).

RSS saves me so much time, I used to waste hours just cycling through pages to see if any updated.