Bilb!

I just ordered a shitload of little soldering projects for $1-4 to practice soldering and have been quite satisfied. The instructions are only in Chinese and minimal, but easy enough to translate with a phone camera and the lack of hand holding sorta encourages learning.

Right, I’m imagining it as a service set up to be used if wanted/needed with no broad mandate. There are people running NSFW sites and channels that genuinely do not want minors interacting or accessing, and many would integrate this type of verification voluntarily if there was trust that it worked correctly and did not collect and distribute data about individuals. But I agree, that’s not what is on offer. So far from the UK it seems like they are letting private businesses figure it out.

And that kinda sucks, because that could actually be useful. For instance, you could set up a forum for people above the age of 40 or whatever while still letting everyone post pseudonymously. A third party public service that can blindly attest that a person is over a certain age could be a great and convenient thing. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing happening, though.

Illegal content is already illegal.

I think it actually is more complicated. There are anti obscenity laws in the United States where these companies (Steam and Itch.io, but also Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal) are based. The way those laws have been applied have been mostly permissive in the recent past, but I think there’s reason to believe that this could change quickly. We may find ourselves in a situation where the highest court decides that this has all been illegal this whole time. Procedural and legal norms are feeling a bit shaky these days. People wonder why payment processors would bend over backwards on behalf of some group of aussie weirdos, but maybe being on their good side isn’t the concern. Maybe it’s that they’re trying to self regulate to get ahead of any government action. Collective Shout may just be highlighting to them the most risky instances, making it so that they have no plausible deniability with regards to the content they are processing payments for.

Not develop their own hardware, but contract an established manufacturer to do it for them. Which is good, they have no business doing hardware!

I use Aurora DX so most of my apps are flatpaks. Its fine.

And/or Intel. (I can dream, right?) Hell, perform a miracle Moore Threads!

Its a vexingly pedantic point.

Its what made me buy a pixel phone.

A Pretty Big Company? I think they are beyond that classification.

I use Yakuake almost exclusively. I was wondering how difficult it would be to modify it to open from the bottom of the screen instead of the top.

I hung out with him in Vegas and he’s 100% a windows guy

Yeah, it isn’t shit. It’s not the type of game I like, but calling it shit is delusional. Getting it working on Linux would be great.

Deepin looks nice in screenshots but feels terrible in use. Although it’s been a while since I’ve tried it, so it might be great for all I know.

I use Aurora, but my dev containers on aurora are usually Debian. So yes, technically I use Debian a lot!

Lycoris in 2002. It sucked. I think I tried it because it was pushed towards newbies. I tried Mandrake with KDE not long after and that is when I really became a Linux fan.