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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will confess that I have obsessively watched merge requests on a daily basis⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been looking for a sudoku app which allows me to use different symbols rather than numbers because sometimes the numbers themselves confuse me, so using random symbols helps to keep them arbitrary. After years of waiting I submitted a feature request for Open Sudoku and a couple of weeks later it was implemented. Years of waiting, a few weeks waiting after asking, just amazing. Open Source software is definitely the future, and the communities around Open Source project, while a little variable, are absolutely outstanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I eat keto and take warfarin, so C B B is actually a meal I have lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This just happened in New York City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, thanks for the video, good to get it out there, but this really does require a more descriptive title or text description and an NSFW tag. You see a pair of kids get hit by a truck and definitely get injured. It is unclear from the video if only one survived or both, but according to another commenter both survived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Washing smalls separately from large items cab be safer for the clothes and easier for sorting. Also t-shirts can be washed all together and then you have a load of just t-shirts, much simpler, no switching, and you can really get in the groove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Washing smalls separately from large items cab be safer for the clothes and easier for sorting. Also t-shirts can be washed all together and then you have a load of just t-shirts, much simpler, no switching, and you can really get in the groove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this, and if you find an item you like buy multiple of that item in different colours and you have a bunch of different looking clothes that feel the same to you. Also with the underwear you can actually throw them out when they get holes, that is allowed, and you can buy a few extra packs and just have them there as spares for when you throw some out, just swap them into your drawers as you remove broken ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner’s dad had a pair that stood on their own. Not frozen, just gross. Gotta admire the dedication I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, so I have ADHD and absolutely hate tasks like laundry. I have found a few different solutions which have worked at various points in time depending on my available means.

  When I was drying clothing by hanging I started hanging my t-shirts on hangers to dry. This meant I could get them out to dry in one handful and that once dry they could all just be put into the wardrobe with no extra fuss. Underwear and socks were handled by hanging on a little clothes horse and then just thrown in together into a drawer. I make sure to only have one type of identical sock so I can not pair them.

  Now that was all good and fine but my means have increased and life has gotten better, so my methods have changed. I can now afford a heat pump dryer. This is an absolute game changer. I put washing on, when it is done I move it from the washing machine to the dryer, then when it is done I put it away.

  The dryer is super efficient, using way less power than a traditional dryer and hurting the clothing way less. It uses the same system as an air conditioner to pull moisture out of the air while it throws the clothes through the warm dry air.

  Because I have enough clothes now I can also do a smalls load and a separate load for just t-shirts and then all the other clothes like pants and jumpers. Because of that I can sort the smalls much faster and then put them in my new storage.

  I have an 8 cube shelf. In each cube I have a fabric box which has one type of item. I have two for t-shirts, two for pants, one for underwear, one for socks, and two for anything else. I just dump items in with no folding or sorting. If I want a shirt I can pick the colour but because all the shirts are the same brand and model that is the only difference I have to deal with. My pants are basically all of a type and are really only summer or winter gear, so I just have long pants on one box and shorts in the other.

  The great thing is the simplicity. Shirts are never folded, rolled, or in any other way managed. They are just thrown in. I try to empty one first and then fill that one first from the dryer so they all get rotated through, otherwise they would go musty after a time, but apart from that it is super low effort.

  I also have the same for towels and bedsheets, but for bedsheets I put the full set inside one pillow case with the fitted sheet as the last item in so when I use them I pull out and apply the fitted sheet, then the flat sheet, then the second pillowcase to cover the pillows. My kitchen stuff is also similar with a single basket on top of the fridge with tea towels and microfibre cloths so I can just replace them daily or more as needed. I really should put a mini basket in the kitchen for the dirty ones but for now I just throw them into the laundry.

  Overall I spend less electricity washing clothes and drying them in the dryer than I did rewashing clothes I had put off hanging. I think it is a worthy trade and saves me from avoiding the washing too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the central problem with digital ownership. It isn’t real. You don’t own anything.

  If you have a file which contains the book and has no Digital Restrictions Management on it then you own the book in the same way as if you have the physical book.

  If you borrow a book from the library you could make a copy by scanning all the pages and then give the original back. Alternatively you could refuse to return it and pay the replacement cost. In either case you actually had the book with full access.

  If you “borrow” the book in apps like this you are not getting the whole thing unencumbered, you are getting something more similar to a webcam view of a page turning robot. Yes you can read the text, but you can’t make any changes, mark a spot, read it offline, take a photocopy, and so on. Many of these apps block screenshots, and many also block copy and paste.

  It is crazy to me that in order to have reasonable access to a book you have no legal option in many cases. I recently bought Azalea Ellis’ books and they are all in a plain eBook format or in a plain audio book format. No DRM, no limits. That means I can use the audio book as I want, which in my case means adding it to my AudioBookShelf server. I can cache it to my phone one book at a time or even the whole series in one go. I can play it at whatever speed I like, 2x is my normal, and nobody can stop me. I can listen to it as many times as I like.

  If nobody will sell me the book without DRM I don’t consider it buying. They are leasing the book, renting access to it, but I never fool myself into thinking I own it. I don’t actually own anything on a PS5, nor on Steam. While Steam has not turned evil yet it is always a possibility, so I treat those licences as access rentals and assume they are temporary.

  From a moral perspective if you van have it taken away you don’t own it, and if you buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t theft. Any claims that someone stole from a publisher when the publisher was claiming they were selling the game are bunk. If they actually sold the game, as GOG does, then it would be theft. But if they only sell a licence for access then it isn’t selling the game, and it is therefore not theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference in cost for a black and white or colour ereader is fairly minimal now, mine was about $30 more than the black and white. I’m using a Kobo Clara Colour. I have installed NickelMenu and KoReader and absolutely love it.

  The difference between that and my phone is significant. My phone has to be maximum brightness to be readable outside, but my Kobo is fine. Eink relies on reflected light so bright external lights like the sun don’t make it look bad, they actually make it look better. The size is also a bit more suited to reading, though you are correct that phones are often close to that size now. These are reasons, but they are not the main reason.

  It can’t do music or web browsing, nor can it have much in the way of apps and games. It can’t get messages or emails, and notifications are not even supported. Why do I use it? To read. It is for reading while doing nothing else. I can decide that I will now read for an hour and just put my phone somewhere else, maybe on charge, while I do so. I can focus on that one task and smash it out without anything else getting in the way. It is glorious.

  I am going to get an MP3 player soon given how great my experience of separating reading has been. Using my phone for everything is great for travel but the cost is the constant intrusions. I have notifications off for most things and that helps, but the availability of everything all the time is just not something I cope well with. I think my phone will continue to be my camera for the most part, and my communication tool as well, but moving music and reading off seems to be a good path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I deal with children following me around in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Options vary depending on your temperament and goals.

  You could tell them no thanks, you are busy. Perfectly reasonable, it can be done kindly, and setting a clear boundary can work wonders.

  You could also try managing rather than helping them. By this I mean helping them with the cognitive tasks of figuring out what they want to do and planning that out. This would mean finding a tutorial or video of a build, getting the summary of items needed, and then telling them how to go get those things and organise the storage.

  If you go spelunking with them then having them come along as a part of the team and helping with something like strip mining can be very good. If they aren’t interested they can go do something else, but this specific task is something they can do to help. For example, I would make two long lines on the same level connected at one end to create a U shape then have them mine from one side to the other with a gap of two blocks. That simple mining is tedious but much better with extra hands, and the excitement of finding something good is enough to keep them interested often enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Bluetooth is turned off on my Windows 11 pc but the Bluetooth mouse still works. How is that possible if Bluetooth is turned off?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On your motherboard there is a bluetooth radio. That is what is being turned off and on by turning bluetooth off and on.

  The USB receiver is likely not bluetooth but a 2.4GHz radio for connecting to the mouse.

  Your mouse may also be able to connect via Bluetooth without the USB dongle, some mice can do that, but most just use their dongle.

  Bluetooth is not great for low latency things like mouse input or game controllers. It also kind of sucks for audio but that is handled mostly by just buffering audio and having a slight delay in playback. That said, I love Bluetooth because I can have headphones without cables that get snagged all the time. Very handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey. Just a quick anatomy check here. A lot of women and other vulva havers have never actually gotten a mirror and image out and mapped their parts to their names. In some cases people have been mistaken, trying to push things inside their eurethra rather than their vagina. This can cause a lot of pain and does not generally result in sexual enjoyment.

  Secondly, mechanically, this is supposed to be a fairly wet process. Dry fingers are really good for causing damage, but absolutely terrible for pleasure. They can cause abraisions in the soft tissue and even draw blood without any malice or significant force. Try using a lot, and I mean what feels like too much and then some, water based lubricant. I would recommend KY as a great starter as it is more jelly like than many others and lasts a bit longer.

  Remember, if choosing between more lube and less more is always safer, more comfortable, and lower risk. It doesn’t reduce sensation, it increases it, so making sure everything is wet is important.

  Water is not lubricant. Water removes all the gel features of lubricants and will dilute and wash away water based lubricants. Silicone lubricants are water resistant and can be used vaginally, but generally people find water based lubricants more comfortable and enjoyable for vaginal penetration.

  Also, spend time yourself with the lubricants and a small dildo. Get to know how it feels on your own. A partner is fun, but learn singleplayer before joining a multiplayer game, you need to know what works because your partner can’t feel how it feels for you, it isn’t their body, they need your feedback. There is nothing wrong with enjoying your own body, it is natural and healthy and really enhances partner play as well. I guarantee you if you are with a male partner he knows a lot about what his junk needs, so it is a good idea to get that understanding for your own bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ROMs are your best bet for more play with less storage required. Older games are insanely small by today’s standard, often coming in at under a single 600MB disc in size, but console games blow even that out of the water. N64 games are tens of megs, while earlier platforms are only a couple of megs a piece.

  PlayStation games are all around that 6-700MB per disc and some games are multiple discs, but that is still way less than the size of modern games. Also a lot of them can play fairly well from a high compression format like 7z, so you can store then compressed.

  Also, some games that are older have newer open source engines which can really breathe new life into them. My first example would be OpenMW for Morrowind, but DevilutionX is another great example. Trying to get Diablo running in modern hardware is entirely possible, but the resolution is very limited and it is super clunky. DevilutionX has more options and it is a much more enjoyable experience.

  Also, Creeper World 3. I have put 50 full days of my life into that game and regret nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t one place. Neurotypical eye movement is fairly constant, with a lot of time spent looking at or around other people. People who are autistic or have ADHD have a different pattern and often get commentary that they are staring at something like they want to burn it down or that they are off with the fairies.

  To help with masking one strategy is to have a frequent face check, looking near the faces of people who are in the room, especially those who have just entered or moved. If someone is speaking they should be looked at but not 100% of the time, more like 70-90%. Other time should be spent looking around the room, looking at whatever is behind or around them, or at whatever they are presenting if applicable.

  That said, if that isn’t enough clarity I would recommend spending some time actually watching other people. You can do this in a classroom environment but people may find it disconcerting, so using sunglasses and doing it at a café is a fairly good option. Pay attention to where their eyes are going and what they are doing. If they are talking to someone compare their eye behaviour while they are talking to while they are listening, it is quite different. Same with if they are eating, drinking, reading, and so on. Some people spend a surprisingly large portion of the time while reading not looking at the page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an autistic person with ADHD too I was going to say this. I hate my name being used, I strongly prefer dude or mate, I’ll even take “hey you”, but using my name is very similar to extreme eye contact or touching my hands. No, no thank you, I would prefer not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for input/feedback on what work would look like in solarpunk settings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Think about what people who don’t have to work now do and apply it, or alternatively think about what people do in their down time.

  My partner paints and does various other types of art. They are disabled and we live in Australia so they have a support payment, meaning they don’t have to work for money. They have made some awesome art that I really love and they do it because they want to. There is no time pressure, not external motivation, it is purely intrinsic motivation that drives their behaviour.

  I on the other hand have done a bunch of different jobs in which I have made things like in IT where I put together servers and replaced aging infrastructure. The stress of the external time pressures and so on took away a good fraction of the joy of it. In my home lab I have some cool things I have played around with and I genuinely enjoy them, but that is my own stuff with my own money and time, so the joy is there in full.

  If I were considering how things would happen in a solar punk future it would not be jobs, it would not be something you are incentivised to do, it would be something you do because you want to, so hours would likely be less and you would likely have multiple fairly different things. I personally would probably cook, garden, care for kids and disabled people, do cool stuff with computers, and learn about genetic engineering and associated cool science stuff. None of those would be 40+ hours a week, but I would have periods of getting stuck into a project and spending a lot of time for a couple of weeks on one thing while reducing the time for the rest.

  This all rides on automation taking care of most of the labour requiring tasks. I would still cook because I enjoy it, even though a machine could do it just as well with no effort from me. I would learn about things out of interest, not utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Broadly speaking it seems mostly to be the point of focus. In Libertarianism it is all about the individual, having freedoms from others, and being an island.

  In Anarchism it is about specific external coercive forces. Those forces impact individuals, groups, communities, and so on.

  So a Libertarian may think about food security from a perspective of deregulating supply so that you can choose to buy unsafe food because you think it is a good idea. An Anarchist may instead think about mutual aid, local cooperative production, and preventing external power structures like corporations or governments restricting sharing of resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Down here in Australia we constantly have people walking around with thongs (flip flops) or barefoot and in swimwear, so bikini top for women and bare for men. Honestly I don’t see a problem with it, I walk around with very minimal shoes now and I used to walk around barefoot most of the time when I was a kid. If you aren’t walking on a road with tonnes of broken glass and no footpaths then you are fine. As for people who complain about women having their chest exposed honestly, learn to not stare. It isn’t the job of women to cover up so you don’t have to put in effort.

  Our beach culture is great because it is so laid back. If I had a business near the beach I would assume my customers would be barefoot and topless and make appropriate accommodations including somewhere to clean their feet off and taking care to keep the floor from being sticky. When I lived in the UK I found the constant demand to wear shoes stifling and awful and the USA felt really judgemental and gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, so for Bedrock it is hosted by Microsoft and they are responsible. For any hosting infrastructure they will need to manage things themselves, but Microsoft seems to be taking things a step further. They seem to have blocked chat for Java users who are not verified to be adults. This means you may have to use a third party provider to verify your account by providing them with various details and trust that they won’t sell that information on.

  Honestly, it is not something required by the law and it fits with a pattern I have noticed over the last few years. VPNs are being banned, age verification is being required on more and more sites starting with porn but now moving to things like video games, and the third party companies who can verify your age seem to be able to either sell that data on or sell things derived from that data. If I were planning to use authoritarian methods to control a population, similar to what ICE is doing in the USA, I would choose this strategy. Given the information in an age verification check I can train my AI systems to recognise specific faces and link them to the IMSI from a mobile phone present at a protest. This would identify the protestors and allow retribution at scale. Is that what is happening? I don’t know. But does it look exactly how that would look? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you provide the server, the actual computer used to provide a service, you are responsible for that server. Minecraft Bedrock servers are operated directly by Microsoft and as such are something they are responsible for.

  The browser accesses any and all servers for web pages. Regulating the browser would not work as they have no control over the content, nor do they have the ability to effectively filter.

  The confusion comes from you running two similar programs on your computer and having one of those behave differently to the other. The key is that the game client is a client only for that game, but the browser is a client for any web server out there. The client is not regulated at all, the server is. Anyone can access any web server from a browser, but only one server from a game client.

  Interestingly WoW has custom servers which are not operated by Blizzard and as such Blizzard is not responsible for what happens on them. The operator of the server is the responsible party here and has to control their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …com.au/c22n2107-battery-for-asus-zenbook-14-flip…

  That is a suitable replacement. It is a simple pouch battery with an easy connector so the actual physical work to replace it is fairly simple and the cost is very low for the convenience of using your system for long hours. It should also prolong the life of your laptop delaying replacement for a fairly long time.

  The big question is about the quality of the internals of the battery. Is the material consistently folded? Are there overhangs or under hangs? Are there areas where the anode and cathode are close and will short in a few years of usage? I honestly don’t know how to actually check for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have tried this a bit and it doesn’t work well. Remember that most games have some sort of plot which needs to move forward without deviating too far and this is not easy to manage with AI. AI systems are predictive text tuned up, so they tend to wander in the conversation and this can be disastrous for something like a video game.

  The world is there to support the illusion but also to direct the player to game material. An AI agent going off on a tengent about some random thing that kind of fits the world could lead to users running around wasting their time and being frustrated.

  Add to that the risk of the AI system stepping into awful places like reproducing Nazi ideology and it is a nightmare for developeds. Imagine getting your game rated when it can randomly start telling your character not to worry about saving those people over there because their skin tone is darker and that makes them less than human.

  Now as a tool for building scripts quickly? Maybe, but it does produce slop now and if that will change I cannot predict when. Maybe it could be used as part of the process but I think it is so toxic now I would not bet on it. I also think it should be labeled as the use of AI comes with moral issues around the environmental impact and theft of content from other people. If a game has AI generated content I won’t be playing it, and I am not alone. Just the push back from audiences could be enough to discourage the use of AI systems.

  Now on the other hand using a neural network design for making character behaviours more believable, for example using a series of needs and having the algorithm decide what to do next and so on, that could be cool, but we have that already and it isn’t considered AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of yes, kind of no.

  Short term there is not a huge difference between getting sugar from complex carbs or simple carbs and most vitamins and micro nutrients will be OK with a few weeks of worse absorption and slowly lowering levels.

  Medium term this would be bad, but so is the standard western diet. Carbs are not a great source for energy for a number of reasons but one of the key ones can be seen with vitamin C. Why do we not have functional pathways for making vitamin C? Our closest relatives do, the other great apes, and almost all other mammals do too. In fact as far as I am aware one of the only other mammals missing the ability to make vitamin C is the guinea pig which is especially ironic considering it was the aminal selected to understand scurvy, an extreme form of vitamin C deficiency.

  We don’t need anywhere near the same level of vitamin C if we are not eating sugars, complex or simple. Eating a very very low carb diet, deep into the ketogenic end, reduces the need for vitamin C. Taking someone who has symptoms of scurvy and switching them to a carnivore diet seems to reverse the symptoms fairly promptly and plenty of people eat just meat for decades at a time without developing scurvy, so it seems safe enough.

  So if you look at a diet made of highly processed high carb foods like the current standard American diet you would see a measurable but not extreme change in the short to medium term, but in the medium to long term it would get worse. If you compare to a more reasonable diet which doesn’t have huge amounts of processed foods or carbs in it then it would be a bigger difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AsteroidOS usable? Should I get an old smartwatch and install it?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Ticwatch S2 (tunny) which was not officially supported but I managed to get it running and it was cool but not well integrated. The maps didn’t work, most apps were only a little functional, and syncing with a phone was not stable.

  Those all sound like bad things and for a finished product they would be, but solving problems is fun if you have the right mindset. I love the idea of using a real qt based interface rather than running modified android or similar. It was very fun to play around with but ended up being less than perfectly suited for me. I want them to succeed though, so I hope they make more progress and get some better results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to a werewolf in space?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the transformation is because of the light from the moon there are a few changes we could expect. First, the cycle would still be matched to the lunar cycle of about 28 days just like on earth as that cycle is driven by the relative positions of the moon, sun, and earth. If the moon is further away from the sun than earth it is lit up more, most at opposition to the earth. In contrast the brightness would go down as it enters alignment between the sun and earth, peaking with a new moon.

  Second, the near lack of atmosphere would likely increase the number of days which would be sufficient to trigger the transformation. Maybe it would be 5 nights instead of 3 nights, or maybe the transformation would be more intense leading to more extreme features or even new traits.

  As for another planet and moon system, earth is unique here. No other moon is as close in size to the planet it orbits with the exclusion of dwarf planets Pluto and Charon. The bulk of moons are way smaller and also orbit around planets way further away from the sun and so would be far less bright. Perhaps not enough light would be reflected for there to be any transformation, while a confluence of moons may work together to have a higher impact on occasion.

  In a more science fiction setting I would imagine having reflected light cause the transformation could make things like a ring world, a spinning ring with a central reflector, interesting. The starlight reflecting off the mirrors would theoretically make the whole ring be constantly lit for wearwolves and make night, changing the mirrors to reflect no light, the only time without wearwolves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically no difference. You may get some small differences in synthetic performance benchmarks but for web browsing and video playing it should be negligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there is a massive difference between a 9 year old and a 14 year old. Someone who is 17 is not necessarily significantly different from an 18 year old, yet we have to draw the line somewhere. I think if you own and pay for the service it should be up to you at a service level, not up to the government to demand a random third party company be accessed to verify ID and so on. That third party company stands to make money while also being a wonderful target for hackers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tonnes of ways but honestly, the easiest way is to do it at the ISP level. Have an internet connection you don’t want used for adult material? Have an opt in service at the ISP to block XXX rated sites and maybe social media. If you are old enough to pay for your own internet you should not be required to jump through hoops to access what you want, but kids should not be thrown onto the internet without guardrails. Some kids will get around it but it would be an active choice, so most kids would not. And to be clear, this would be done at the ISP level where you already have verification of age built in to billing, so no additional privacy concern. Honestly, the fact that this is not the solution is what tells me all of this filtering is not about protecting kids, it is about centralisation and control along with pork barrelling for age verification companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but this is the mistake you make, you actually care about people. Sadly this is disqualifying for higher levels of power.