I think they want to drop the lobbying red tape, not the safety standards

You don’t need to show ID to enter the store just because they sell cigarettes at the front counter. The staff person checking the OD at the front counter isn’t memorizing the information on the ID and using it to track every other purchase you make in the store, or to piece together what you’re doing once you leave the store.

Locking individual content behind age verification (and it entirely depends on how they are handling the age verification), is different than a blanket identification check to use the platform at all. Age verification is used to prevent children from buying cigarettes from a store while under aged, but it’s up to parents to prevent them from getting cigarettes other ways.

I’m not going to explain jack shit about Absolute Batman, because I’ve never read it. You can be a fan of something while still being critical of it, but yeah, how you explain it there doesn’t sound like they are fans to begin with. So, probably just want to be included in the discussion. You’re going to get that anywhere with any topic.

The whole “never read a comic” part though just hurts any argument.

I almost gave the benefit of the doubt, and was going to talk about people wanting to feel included or trying to connect with others. I thought you were talking about people that have never owned a tuba or heard one played coming in to give an opinion on a tuba. But then you go and talk about “real fans” like an idiot. The only thing that is required to be a “real fan” is to enjoy the thing and consider yourself a fan. If you only want the opinion of people that have read the same comic, then specify that exactly. You’ll still get other people chipping in, but at least you wouldn’t be gatekeeping.

And how about this, instead of deriding these “fake fans” as you see them, how about you try to sell them on the thing you love and recruit them into enjoying it as well? “Oh, you think you enjoy tubas now? Just wait until you read this tuba story! You’ll love it!”

It is a net, and it is tiny!

Damn, my bad, I’m so sleep deprived I would have bet money this was under the other comment thread

I am in a position to see first hand people regularly dropping ~$4000USD on “mid-range” PCs. It hasn’t slowed down purchasing of PCs, if anything it is speeding up compared to this time last year.

From Cocodapuf? Or from the article? Because you replied to a comment that wasn’t even talking about the article…

It is this, coupled with so many people not even knowing that they are using OneDrive (because it was automatically enabled if you have a Microsoft account linked to your Windows install, and Microsoft pushing to link your account).

So that they don’t get the spotlight on them and get shit down? Unless they have the money and legal representation behind them to fight it, like the AI companies do?

It’s kind of ironic that a preservation focused organization didn’t have any sense of self-preservation. If they quietly scraped and archived songs over time and in the background, there never would have been any attention brought on them.

The point is that it does not inspire confidence when that is the introduction… (You can also file the bug report, or I could, but you are the one championing it)

I also wanted an OS that “just worked”, and Windows was no longer delivering that. I was constantly having driver issues (usually wireless and Bluetooth related), which required messing around in the registry to fix. I suppose I could have wiped everything and started with a fresh install, but how long would that have worked for?

If I was going to have to tinker and tweak things to get it to work anyway, I figured I might as well do it with an OS that I was in control of, that didn’t shove ads in my face constantly, and that I didn’t have to pay to unlock all the features. I already had a little experience with Linux in VMs, so I tried dual-booting. I found I didn’t really need to boot into Windows except for the most niche cases, so I just stayed on Linux.

When I built a new computer a couple of years ago, I switched over from dual-booting to just Linux. I’ve been running EndeavorOS ever since.

I switched to Antennapod a couple of months ago and it has been amazing. It offers per-podcast audio boosting, great for those quiet podcasters that expect their listeners to use headphones in a sensory deprivation tank as they whisper from the room across the building from their microphone.

Damnit, you’re right!

But for real, I think you misunderstand the point of documentation. Even if something were truly, literally flawless, having documentation would still be a net gain. It isn’t only to fix something when it goes wrong, but explains how things are working. If the only way for something to be literally flawless in your world view is for it to be so self explanatory that an idiot seeing it for the first time still understands it perfectly, nothing in computing can be flawless in that way.

The pedantry on this point is so unhelpful as to be actively harmful to the rest of the discussion.

They didn’t say it required documentation, they said it had plenty of documentation should you need it.

A user “Luffy” created a post that was specifically complaining about thorn guy. OP isn’t complaining about mods not acting on thorn guy, they are complaining about mods not acting on the guy that made a post complaining about thorn guy.

Screenshot could be a lot better, I agree, but it’s all there

Edit: I also don’t think that’s really an attack post, but also don’t think it really fits here. Your reply just makes it seem like some people may think OP is railing against thorn guy

Like the tags with the plastic “string” that attaches then to the clothes? You’re not supposed to just rip that out, you’re supposed to cut the “string”. If that’s not what you’re referencing, then I have no idea the tags you are talking about, but I’m curious.

Wild, without specifying, I had to check whether this was an app. I thought you were just being snarky at first! This is such a great but terrible name for a messaging app

I agree, without know how OP wants to customize, I’m assuming they want to customize the desktop GUI. If that’s the case, anything KDE will be a good starting place. They also implied they don’t mind if they mess something up, so the specs probably don’t matter for being the most resource efficient. It just needs to be hand-holdy enough to help get a little experience for them, then they can jump into a more hands on distro