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.

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/

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.

And I will tell you this: the operating system is 100% where you want to do age verification.

Oh, what’s that you’re using? It’s Linux? Sure that’s fine, just make sure the age verification check works on it.

Wait, what do you mean you have “root access”? Why do you keep repeating “it’s my hardware and I own it”? You removed the age check system? You can do that! Hey, he’s not supposed to be able to do that!

Colorado proposes bill to ban open source operating systems

<Edit>Crap… I was right </Edit

As a parent, systems and web developer of both open source and proprietary software. This would single-handedly be one of the most damaging things to ever happen to the world of personal computing.

From a technical point of view, having OS-level verification is the least worst, and in my technical opinion, the best option.

It’s a horribly bad opinion. It’s the same old problem with client-side anti-chest. You can’t trust the hardware. If the user has full access to the computer, then they can do whatever they want with it. This is a core issue in security modelling. So what’s the answer? Try to lock down the system. This is why anti-cheat software, to play a video game, has more access to your computer’s hardware than you do as a user. Full access to every single file, data in memory, webcams, things on screen, etc.

What’s going to happen if it becomes mandated that age checks must happen in the OS? We’re going to get computers so locked down that you won’t be able to open a .txt file without some kind of authentication check.

No thanks. I’m happy to avoid every single age-check required service.