Perhaps not a popular approach, but I will simply watch less or not at all (mainly due to ads). There are other ways to entertain yourself. Throw away your TV!

That was also my first impression. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

An ashtray!

I got a laugh out of it!

The article didn’t mention if any ransom was paid to the attackers or whether other casinos saw an increase in their revenues.

I wonder how much money gamblers saved as a result of the downtime.

Sounds like mind mapping software. I use freeplane (formerly freemind) desktop app but would love to find a self-hosted collaborative web based alternative with a database backend.