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    [–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

    Today i had a segfault that basically froze my entire machine. I was just running some downloads and browsing and all of a sudden i couldn't open, minimize, raise, or close anything.

    [–] RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux users just watching the chaos like it’s a movie 🍿

    [–] CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

    Just made the jump. No regrats

    [–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    until the age verification brick hits you in the head

    [–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 7 hours ago

    I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.

    [–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.

    I'm all for privacy but let's be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.

    That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I'll basically have no one.

    [–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    It's the implementation (such as in UK) requiring government ID, making it sound more like blatant data collection.

    I'm honestly not the best person to talk about this. But also not every user in a website/social media has to buy something, hence not everyone has ever given their payment info.

    But from tiny bit reading on recent essay on the lobbyist of the OS-level age verification law, being Facebook behind it, they kind of want to offload this work to OS so that they themselvs (social media services) don't be the one who does this, apparently because that may violate some regulation. I don't remember the details sorry.

    As for the motives, why's everyone suddenly obssessed with verifying everyone's age since 2025, who knows. But I do have concern that prosecuting critics on the internet will be easier if everyone is well profiled.

    [–] coolfission@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    Talk to your PC is basically what cortana was

    [–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

    I'm still salty that they killed Cortana. For the short period between being released full-featured and MS gimping it hard in my region, it was the best assistant out of the bunch, by far.

    All they had to do was add the option to add the capabilities of Copilot to the existing system and they'd have an actually killer feature.

    [–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    You forgot forced microsoft account.

    [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    And "Age verification"

    And "Telemetry"

    [–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    It's wild that ~~people~~ politicians think they're going to legislate linux into age verification -- as if the community isn't half DIY techies who'd sooner set up shop in international waters than change their preferred settings.

    LOL telling the people who created the Darknet that you're going to control what they do with their computers

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