Now some 50-60yo politician who has never even created a folder in their desktop without help wants to dictate how I should have used my device?

Fuck'em

Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobody will. I've had Bluesky for about a year now and pretty much abandoned it some months ago because only like 5% of the people I follow post/crosspost to Bluesky.

In Discord's case its mainly project wikis, forums and video game focused servers + their admins that should move. If they remain on Discord everyone will keep on Discord.

I myself am within multiple servers (that are strictly non-pornographic mind you) that due to the main content/game/media they focus in and the social behavior they cultivate, will most likely be rated non-teen safe.

Most shooter games are Rated R/PEGI-18 f.e. and they have tons of big Discord servers.

Even if that "math" does not work for you, take into account those 600€ monthly investment would have to compete against my home's value. My property has appreciated about 90% in the last 10 years, practically doubling my potential earnings compared to the original cost. From 300k to 570k on 10 years. There is no way somebody with 0 investing knowledge could pull that off.

Renting is just better if you have enough fuck you money to rent whatever you want, whenever you want, with the flexibility of choosing to be alone or accompanied.

Really aggressive moderation, people trying to score points for a worthless achievement system by spamming comments like "You should narrow the scope of this question"

Having to grind achievements to be able to comment, like or dislike.

I used it for a year or so back in 2013?, went back to posting in forums like XDA developers, Codeguru and Reddit.

27M speaking.

I see most of my friends irl about once every two weeks or so. We either make all day/weekend long plans or we don't meet up.

However we spend at least 2-3h on call daily in Discord and exchange about 200 messages a day in our Telegram groups.

Being conservative with both of those metrics that is.

First Asus purchase ever. USB Bluetooth dongle. Stopped working in 2 weeks.

Second. An Asus GTX 770. It broke in 3 months.

Third. Asus Xonar PCIE Sound Card. Optical did not work, started hissing/having static in less than a year.

Fourth. Asus motherboard for 1st gen Ryzen. Tried to update bios on arrival, it bricked.

I am never NEVER buying anything Asus related ever again.

Yuzu did not distribute those.

However it did implement the code to use those keys and decrypt a game. So you could say the final compiled binary "implements a way to circumvent DRM". Although you could also defend it by saying "it just models what the hardware does".

Regardless, for the whole "emulators are illegal" discussion, you could technically distribute code for an emulator that does not include that piece of code. Then "ask" your users to "search" for it (kinda like with prod and title keys) and "tell" them to compile it.

But these are very technical arguments you would need to pass in front of a non-technical judge. So good luck.

Only feature that works better on W11 than W10 is autoHDR. You are not getting too many people into W11 for just autoHDR.

Let's see what they do with W12 or however they'll call it.

However, I can not imagine a situation that would ever call for 2 or more meetings. Nor can I visualize any circumstance where a meeting with HR would help with highly specialized position hiring.

Once your job description calls for 5+ years of experience, a master's or even a PhD, maybe a certificate or two and even publications on the field, there should not be more than a couple hundred applicants. Not even a hundred to be honest. And every one of those claims can be verified by manual online searches or automated tools. Furthermore, the only way of verifying the applicants actually know about those subjects is a meeting with a fellow engineer.

I have a PhD on Embedded device security and last time I went through 3 interviews with HR people before I ever got to speak to an engineer. 90% bullshit questions.

Had to do it once with Sony and another time with an electronics insurance company. Money was back in my account in less than 24h.

I would buy an EV, I love those things. But between fitting a charger in the garage and getting a reasonably priced 2nd hand EV I would have to expend like $20+k. Which is much MUCH more than what I would save up in fuel through its lifespan. Not really happening unless I get some help from the government to purchase an EV and my town hall puts up some chargers near.

"The problem, in short, is that the law targets websites as a whole, rather than at the level of the individual page or subdomain"

Basically, this law would do nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn. It would just single out porn companies that are based/operate in the USA. And would only prevent direct access to them. Search engine results, visual search, metadata based content linking/recommendations, etc. are completely out of the scope.

It also would not apply to any social media sites that carry less than 33% porn content. So basically you could still go to X or Reddit and search for porn there too. Even r/pornhub for pornhub reposts.

It does not apply to apps that do search porn through API calls to porn sites that can be easily installed from the appstores.

Want to actually regulate this stuff? Make all internet connection capable devices be verifiable at the hardware level. Make it so apart from logging in to Google/Apple you have to also log in with a government issued ID through your ISP to some kind of verification portal/account. And link that verification to government developed software running within the device's OS which would block functionalities and can't be turned off/blocked without the device completely freezing.

Want a less draconian/90% solution? Make the top 3 search engines(Google, Bing, Yahoo) and the top 5 social media sites that carry porn (X, Reddit, Facebook, etc.) block access to pornographic content through Government issued ID verification.

Good luck with actually enforcing any of those though.

And I would say workarounds are within reach of the average teenager. Mainly in the 90% solution. Just change the search engine.

Thus handing out 20k to everybody no matter their situation seems like a really bad idea to me.

Also, "everybody" will get 20k? Even people that are rich? What is the reasoning behind that?

Too many edges to sand down in this proposal.

But where I live (northern Spain), mainly in engineering, getting a PhD almost always ensures the opportunity for an academic tenure and a professor position. We are still growing our universities' numbers and new professors are needed every year.

Would I be paid triple what I get now outside academia for my expertise? Yeah. But teaching is my passion so that balances out. Maybe I'll get out for a few years after I change my credentials from Mr. to Dr., just so I can afford a house, but I will come back to academia no doubt.

In my case I would not care about going to the office if it were anywhere near downtown. That way I could go down to my local pub or game store after work. However, my company is located in the periphery of the city. If I want to go anywhere that means getting in my car once more.