Neikius

Ah ofc I forgot. But iirc not everything works and battery life will probably suck, no? So not really a consideration in this case of price comparison. It is an option though :)

Personally I also can't stand the exterior design, albeit overall hardware of MBP is good. Guess if I land an old MBP this is what I'd do with it.

Does MBP run Linux? That would be the selling point for me ... But I guess I am not in a big group.

Also MBP is not really repairable at all.

Or just let us set our age in the OS profile? Works for adults and kids.

Best hiring systems I saw were when actual engineers hiring for their team were doing the bulk. You get a gauge of what you can expect and them too.

There was some cheat software that did the same back in the windows 9x/XP days. Dont remember the name but there were many I am sure.

Density is not that important. It's the distribution. Japan for example has most of the population concentrated close to coast.

Italy has a few major population centers south of dome but sparsely populated otherwise.

And so on...

Very well hidden. Ugh. So close to a really good solution but ofc there is always a rider somewhere.

As a parent this is perfect. I am baffled why this is not a standard yet. So setting an account age in Netflix works but the child can access anything. Make new accounts even. So I have to block half the internet. Somehow. On a shared computer. And all companies would have to get your ID and track that. It's crazy.

This compromises 0 privacy until it requires an ID. EU solution actually does and only supports specific devices.

Just make your OS say you are 99.

This is all fine until they put some Id verification in. Then anything open is cooked.

Well let's postulate parent set age on that up Ubuntu account to 13. Pornhub will query browser spi, which will query os API. Very elegant.

Ofc as soon as you give your child root access it is over but that is on you

This is actually a very good point.

I guess we are expecting this to be backdoored with biometrics later? I don't see how anyone can force this on Linux.

I still prefer to have this in my OS above having every Random internet vendor collecting my biometrics and id documents.

Does it matter as long as you can set whatever age you want?

Obviously it does not make sense to age verify root stuff. Also as root you can set whatever age you want to your accounts.

Agreed. Weirdly many people are against. This really seems like the best possible option. Actually helps parents as without this there is no way to enforce kid age. So instead of having it all per account and everything linked in most privacy invading way, just your OS tells the apps/browser whatever was set in there by the parent. I want this now!

Well lobbying is ok. Bribing is not.

I guess we need to pay politicians enough. And have very very strict checks on their wealth. Maybe even only pick people with no families and don't allow them property. That would essentially eliminate bribery. Question is what else would it do... Nothing is so simple in the end.

But yes any such system has to be very simple at it's core.

I like kde's Kate. A bit more than notepad but not as crazy as notepad++. More like notepad 2

Janky but works. I started experiment with game scope I think is called. Interesting results upscaling some games. Fiddly though

This one is a real pain yes. Contributes a lot to bad battery life on laptops

Multiplayer online games work mostly fine. There is just a small fraction that is not.

You could run windows in the VM. Pcie passthrough is a thing just be careful with the Mobo.

There is like 20 online games that don't work... No need to give it all up if you switch

Well they are big enough to be called infrastructure now. Similar to payment providers. Them removing things essentially removes them from existence for 99 percent.

I am with you. But we are somehow a minority. Cannot decide weather we are oddballs or people just love to drink the Kool aid that much.

I am actually encouraged to try this now. Gotta check if they allow it. Sharp edges are really annoying on this machine.

Luckily I use it like a desktop 95percent of the time.

I am suse user for 20+ years with a big break in between. To me it fits the best. Ubuntu I gave up on a while ago and came back to find things so much nicer.

They have a slightly different take on immutable than redhat but it also works well (rollback and all). Also the tumbleweed rolling is quite stable for a bleeding edge rolling release distro. Using it on a few boxes for the last few years and also installing it for other PC noobs and they seem fine with it.

After I replaced my last windows install a few years ago... Checking windows 11 on a friend's PC a few weeks ago was a nightmare. I considered myself a power user back in the day and I really struggled. So now I do have perspective from the other end and it fits the picture - windows is also jank it is just familiar jank for most people.

There is another point too. The trend with Linux is up and improving slowly over decades. And for windows it seems to be the reverse and faster.

Iirc the firewall was already in XP. Maybe earlier but sp2 for sure.

Default allows everything though but you could even set outbound blocking rules. Cumbersome UI and no really good visibility though.

Isn't bcachefs even younger and less polished than btrfs? It does show more promise as btrfs seems to have fundamental design issues... but still I wouldn't use that for my important data.

Not sure about the stats, but it does feel like there are fewer. So from what I know encryption and sending fs state had bugs in ZFS.

And on btrfs anything above raid1 (5,6 etc) has had very serious bugs. Actually read an opinion somewhere (don't remember where) raid5,6 on btrfs cannot work due to on-disk format being just bad for the case. I guess this is why raid1c3/c4 is being promoted and worked on now?