I think a lot of people are looking for a way out at the moment. Keep in mind, a college degree carries far less weight than it used to, and the majority of graduates are ending up in non-graduate roles. As such, college later in life might be a better option.

Why not play a different hand - find her somewhere local to work that covers that “field” so she can follow her interests. At the least, she’ll pick up some transferrable skills, and won’t be digging herself into debt. Worst comes to worst she enters that field with a job rather than debt (you can’t stop a hurricane) - it’s no worse than being a priest really.

Your partner needs a reality check - most men are not looking to be a provider, they’re looking for a partner. To be very blunt, unless your daughter has won the genetic lottery, she’s going to have to work for a living (like the rest of us).

Different strokes for different folks - windows 11 does have it’s uses.

Ever since our office laptops “upgraded” they’ve made excellent space heaters during the winter. Open up Teams, a PowerPoint, and a YouTube video and you’ve got a nice toasty office!

Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)

To be fair, it’s probably best that history forgets this period of the web…

I play a lot of abandonware titles, and there is a spot (90s and early 00s) that are a pain to run. I can normally figure it out on a spare day, but I know a lot of folks just give up.

Honestly, the fact I don’t have as much time as I’d like to contribute workarounds.

Take yesterday, I got Magic and Mayhem (the classic) running via wine, but I had to create a new wine prefix to remove dpi scaling (because, Apparently, the winecfg graphic tab is global, and if dpi scaling is used it truncates the game’s display). Still can’t get the music working, but that’s what MOC is for, and I did use an old cracked version.

I want to make a lutris install script for this, but I lack the time. That’s my main dislike of Linux - I wish there was a solid indexed forum to share game workarounds that had a drop-down search by game.

I dunno, the use of AI Ethicist fits as they’re not against the concept of generative AI as a whole, they’re against unethical generative AI (in terms of stolen training data and environmental harm).

If the world transitioned to a post-IP (intellectual property) society (as we need to), with AI eating less power, then AI Ethicists are unlikely to object.

I applaud folks like this - they make a choice and stick with it. No “I’ll never use AI to generate art but I vibe code to save time” hypocrisy. No “I use it to help me with maths, but I’d never use it to steal artistic work”.

Just straight up “it is an environmental hazard, it is unethical, not engaging”. Should be called “AI Ethicists” rather than “AI Vegans”.

*so that the government can say kids won’t watch porn.

Rule 1 of computers that everyone who has taught an ICT class learns - if little Timmy wants titties, he finds a way.

I mean, reanimating an army of the undead to conquer the surrounding lands does fill me with joy…

Well we all saw that coming.

The parental and elderly voting bloc is very hard to ignore, and those groups tend to be less privacy conscious (as well as pro-anything “protect the children”).

The only way it’s getting repealed is if enough labour voters raise a fuss. Given Reform’s messaging (i.e. repeal it) and how worried Labour are over Reform’s polling, that is likely the only lever that’ll work. However, that’s a long game - one that will take years to play out.

I’ve not read blindsight, now I feel I need to!

Thanks for the quote ^_^

Elderly raspberry pi B [✓]

Large portable drive gathering dust [✓]

Guess I’m setting up a locally hosted file server in the near future.

We are such small and limited things that this is no great surprise. We do not wander through life blind, more we drift through life bereft of senses (and indeed, sense!).

The world we see is an echo of an illusion concocted by crude senses, and guided by a thought process that (while beautiful) is limited in what it can conceive.

Still, like a flower anchored to earth and at the mercy of all around it, we bloom and blossom to the delight of much around us - we play our part in the chaotic heartbeat of all around us.

So it’s not all cosmic apathy and horror, more blissful optimism with a hint of cosmic humour.

Sounds like a standard windows 11 install to me?

If you can substantiate that, might be good to pass to someone in journalism… “Visa allies with TERFs” makes an epic headline ;)

1. Add censorship for mods containing adult (sexual) content.

2. Slowly move the bar so that more content falls under definition of “adult” (themes of violence, LGBTQ+ themes).

3. Continue to move the bar until desired level of censorship is obtained.

Well done, you’ve used moral panic to control your media.

Dark futures aside, why do I think that folks are just going to VPN their way in?

Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I’m agnostic on flatpaks - I’ve used a couple and they’re ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you’re really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn’t, I can see it being an issue.

If we’re going by carpe jugulum rules - yes.

And when this measure fails to protect children and, instead, becomes a data security nightmare, another scheme will be proposed to further erode the freedoms the web brings.

I look forward to hearing about the workarounds kids find.

So, this one is a bit controversial but, when something doesn’t work try running it from terminal.

Unlike windows, Linux doesn’t tend to do “pop up errors”. Running in terminal gives these alerts, and can often give you a hint as to why it isn’t working - be it a missing library, a permission error, or something internal you can quickly search. Usually, someone has a fix!