I hate using a phone. It’s small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can’t have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).

A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.

trying to solve a parenting problem with technology

That was never the goal, just the excuse.

Gonna be weird to age verify yourself to use a smart thermostat.

Why is it CALLED intelligent?

Because it is “intelligent” by definition. You’re conflating the word with “highly intelligent” or just “smart”.

Dogs are “intelligent” but can’t they write code, but we sometimes refer to dogs as “smart”.

A flatworm has intelligence but no one would call it smart.

Is that the show with the liars and thieves?

Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more?

Steam Machine?

you might find a priest that tells you to stop smoking for your health no matter how you phrase the question about lighting up and prayer. What people are receptive to is going to vary.

Ya, I’ve read the thing about praying and smoking in another comment. The funny thing is that I have very specific opinions about smoking and would argue that smoking while praying is disrespectful, but God would listen in any case.

Are we surprised some people’s thought processes and decision making might turn extreme when exposed to this?

Yes, actually. I’m not doubting the power of language, but I cannot ever see something anyone ever says alter my sense of reality or right from wrong.

I had a “friend” say to me recently “why do you always go against the grain?” My reply was “I will go against the grain for the rest of my life if it means doing or saying what’s right”.

I guess my point is that I have a very hard time relating to this.

Would you also claim the diesel cars are worthless because you can’t use regular gas in them? No, I thought so

Photoshop is trash.

Minecraft works just fine (it’s Java for crying out loud)

Steam works natively. Valve’s most popular hardware device runs Linux.

Media player classic

You want to use a garbage Windows built-in application on Linux?

without having to deal with work around and terminal garbage as easy as I can windows?

Two things here;

1. You can get around on Linux without a terminal

2. The terminal is king in functionality

3. Windows requires a command line for many things also, this isn’t a Linux only thing

If you come to Linux expecting it to work like Windows and run all Windows applications, then you’re setting yourself up for failure with bad-faith expectations.

the majority of influencer videos about linux during that period praised only CachyOS

Proof? Because the majority of ones I saw recommended Mint consistently.

and I bet most of them reverted back to windows

So no proof, just personal biases then.

In English language installs, Linux went up from 7% to 8%. The dip is due to an influx of Chinese users. Happens every year during Lunar New Year.

No it didn’t. Most new Linux users are still going with distros like Mint or Bazzite.

You had me at “no Node.js”

They’ve been pushing the thin client for years

I think it’s been decades at this point, and I hope it never takes off.

My specific issue is a buried line at some point between my house and the next ISP demark. I did say “all the time”, but that was hyperbolic. It only goes down when it rains or when snow is melting, which suggests a cable somewhere is cracked and water gets in and degrades the signal.

It happens maybe once a week in the spring, and is back as soon as I reboot the router.

But your assertion that just because a single person’s internet goes down that the entire country’s internet is not “the best” is childish and a reductionist argument.

I do live in a 1st world country. I enjoy socialized (free) health care. And actually my country has some of the best internet in the developed world.

Maybe this is a product aimed at 1st world countries.

I guess that rules out the USA.

Expected downtime for 1st world countries is normally under an hour a year

Citation needed.

If your internet is shit you do not need to buy this.

Nobody should buy this.

yes but how often does your internet go down?

I have a 1Gb connection. I work in software development. I live in a nice neighbourhood. My internet goes down all the time.

Dear lord I hate being right!

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/

Third time?

This is the ninth time. Including certs for their repos and forums.

But I don’t see anywhere in this specific Colorado bill trying to restrict OS level features or go anywhere near open-source

Because the people proposing the bill don’t understand or know what open source is.

I guess my example “realization of open source” dialogue wasn’t in your face enough, eh?

This is about a single signal (kid/no kid) at the user-auth level, without slurping up PII and shipping it off into the ether.

You claim to be a developer, but seem to not understand the fundamental truth of “you can’t trust the user’s computer”. The proposed law, would make it law that operating systems have some mechanism to verify age. Now if it’s a law to guarantee the verification flag is available, then that would also mandate the mechanism be free from tampering, otherwise the law means literally nothing and is unenforceable.

So once they learn about open source, root access, jailbreaking, etc, those things will very quickly become illegal.

As I said in my other comment, this problem has been attempted with gaming client-side anti-cheat for decades now. There’s a reason most online games still are riddled with cheaters, despite anti-cheat software being near Orwellian in what they can do.

Age verification is nothing more than the new guise of forced online tracking.