Just because we agree with the news doesn’t make it correct.

The ban was brought about in December 2025. It’s clearly far too early to draw any conclusions about the impact.

If we are going to cherry pick data let’s make sure to cherry-pick data from both sides: https://yougov.com/articles/54334-new-yougov-research-shows-cautious-optimism-as-australians-assess-impact-of-under-16-social-media-ban

This is probably just me, but I think any ire should be directed towards the governments that make these requirements.

I don’t get mad at truck manufacturers for building the capability to record speed in the vehicle if the government requires it (as many do).

IMHO Apple is intending to comply with the law of a democratic country. It’s hardly Apple’s fault that the law is what it is.

With the greatest respect, and trying my very best to not sound like an arrogant jerk, if you need to have Calc’s lacklustre FILTER function, which often just spits out Error 533 into cells and which can’t quite figure out if it wants to be an array formula, further explained then I dare posit that you may not be a heavy spreadsheet user and therefore spending a large amount of time explaining it does rather reverse the burden of proof. For goodness sake, try and do anything serious with FILTER is Calc and you’ll very, very quickly see what I mean.

No, definitely thinking specifically of data tables in excel.

Oh boy!

Lack of proper table support.

FILTER is borked.

MAP functions and their ilk aren’t there.

The DBASE functions have serious issues.

Array formulas sort of work but often results in issues.

Calculation speed is super slow. I’ve tried converting a pension forecast tool and it just ran so incredibly slowly.

As someone self hosting my own Nextcloud with Collabora, I can tell you that living with LibreOffice is easy - but living with Libra Calc is impossible. It is not a workable, serious solution.

Ii can thoroughly recommend “A Brief History of Intelligence” (by Max Bennett), which explains how intelligence has taken steps through evolution, what those steps were etc.

Spatial intelligence requires spatial understanding and it’s not something that can be solved through a large language model, IMHO.

I’m excited to see how these are solved. And I’m terrified to see how these will be solved.

Are you suggesting that Linux doesn’t attempt to comply to local laws?

That’s a serious question, by the way, not trying to ragebait you.

My point was mostly that the concept of a router can be executed by any computer with more than one NIC.

Trump isn’t disallowing computers from outside the US, surely, only stuff that looks like routers. They’ll have a hard time defining what a router is.

You can of course run your own router.

Well, you can run your own router on your own hardware but other than that, agreed.

That is objectively a silly thing to say.

Yes of course. But a lot of it ain’t vested and so the terms may not be great or downright unpalatable.

I mean I dislike the guy as much as you, but almost all of his “wealth” is paper wealth. He må very well not be able to liquidate 2% of his wealth (fine with me).

Let’s talk in 3 years - my round!

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Nor could an assembly line.

As soon as we convince the billionaires to stop hiding their wealth and pay their fair share of tax.

Ie never.

It’s really not and if you believe it is you need to use it more. The threat is real - don’t underestimate it.

I completely agree with you, though.

Good luck!

I’ve grown up in a country where unions are as natural as air. The unions are so strong that there basically is very limited employment laws - and no minimum wage; there’s just not need for the state to intervene that much because unions are EVERYWHERE. And yes, a Big Mac meal costs a fortune because employees actually have to make a living. I’m ok with it.