Boys don't owe society squat, and now they know it!

Literacy rates are tanking as a result; Mississippi went from 49th to 1st in literacy by ditching the new-fangled whole word contextual style and going hard into phonics. Get them hooked on phonics again, then teach them Greek & Latin! Spanish/French/German/whatever should be the *second* foreign language they learn, gated behind Greek & Latin being their first. It was a huge disservice to my education that the 'dead' languages were not offered to me in [junior] high school. I can only conclude that the curriculum and test writers only want literate-enough workers who can't critically think but who can [barely] read and follow written instruction.

Only fix seems to be ditching Apple. I can only recommend GrapheneOS for [Pixel] phones (never Samsung), and a favorite flavor of GNU/Linux for general purpose (me: Qubes OS). Apple wants to sell a beautiful but limited walled garden, for a premium price... not worth it!

What I won't do is lock them down, like so much of this comment section is in support of doing. I am disgusted by the death of the cyberpunk ethos from the turn of the millennium.

There is controversy! My grandfather and his schoolmates all regularly brought hunting rifles on their trips to the schoolhouse and home (1930s), to hunt opportune meals. There was never any problem with school shootings, which IMO are likely the fault of the prison-authoritarian style that schools morphed into during the latter-half of the 20th century. He had me drink shots with him when I was under 10 years old, because he wanted to make sure I knew drinking was ultimately a boring, uninteresting, stupid activity. Alcohol was always available and I was even welcome to partake anytime (as long as I did it at home)... I hardly ever touched the stuff, and still don't even now. He was a police officer and firearms instructor in a big midwest town, he even taught me how to shoot around that age. He taught me that government is neither god nor good, it is just raw power that has to steal from someone to give to another.

I miss my grandfather so much!

Also, thank goodness my folks were computer illiterate; I never had issues with blocking software (though I would probably have defeated any... easily). I grew up looking at porn and gore occasionally from my very early teens. Maybe try teaching your children about the world instead of hiding them away from it?

Rule 1 of The Internet hasn't changed, it's: never put your real info into the boxes. Never!

WSL is second rate, comparatively.

Qubes OS enters the chat.

Spins up over a half-dozen disposable Windows qubes, variously behind VPN netvms, Tor netvms, and no netvms.

Qubes OS exits the chat.

60 workspaces, in a 12x5 grid. You'll never catch me driving an Apple!

Never subscribe, ever. No streaming, and no cloud.

If you don't have the [unencumbered] file, it's not your media.

Vote for a government that will levy hefty taxes on recurrent revenue model businesses when what is delivered could be delivered permanently in one transaction, like another sin tax.

Vote for defanging DMCA and mandating implementation of open protocols for commercial products; universal machines are not to be golden handcuffs pilfering the people!

This stops when we all decide we're mad as hell, and we're not going to take rentier games anymore!

It is plundering those who didn't pay you for legal immunity.

Good! It's not for them! They can stay paypigs on subscription because they can't git gud!

Counter-counterpoint: Maybe it's time to require professional engineer certification before a software product can be shipped in a way that can be monetized. It's to filter devs from the industry who look at browsers today and go "Yeah, this is a good universal app engine."