As if those drug literacy courses helped anyone. We were taught about it aged 12 or something, when nobody really had a clue what drugs are. Around the age where it matters, it was all but forgotten.

I’d assume the law would include federated social media. And while that wouldn’t prevent underage Australians to sign up with instances hosted elsewhere, it will impose restrictions on local ones, thus hurting the federation effort.

I’m not American. Neither are ~96% of the world population, so please don’t extrapolate based on a flawed sample.

Had exactly the same thought. And it was so peaceful after blocking lemmygrad and .ml, I almost got used to it.

Think I need to block their instance as well.

That’s their problem. Literally.

Also, what kind of people do you surround yourself with? I don’t know a single person with the reading skills of a sixth grader.

Oh nice, that’s something.

That’s still only 3 simultaneously if I saw that right. My old Lenovo laptop had 3 USB-A 2.0 ports, 2 x USB-A 3.0, RJ45 and HDMI. That was gold. Everything that comes now is a bloody chore.

It really is for me. Those things stick out way too far and might work alright in stationary mode, but while on the go they break easily (speaking from experience) and slip out all the time.

It really is a big deal for me, they stick out too far and are making the whole setup flimsy.

I agree with USB-C, but there are still a million USB-A devices I need to use, and I can’t be bothered to buy adapters for all of them. And a USB hub is annoying.

Plus, having 1-2 USB-C ports only is never gonna be enough. If they are serious about it, why not have 5?

Most average users consider Microsoft a trusted source, that’s the root cause of a whole lot of crap.

That’s more than 3% of the user base. 0.5% is considered sufficient for statistical relevance.

The ones with EOL 2015, fair play. But May 2024 isn’t all that long ago.

Edit: Looks like those were launched in early 2015. I guess requesting users to update devices after 8+ years might not be too far fetched.

Source: https://www.dlink.com/rs/sr/press-centre/press-releases/2015/february/04/unified_services_router_dsr_150n

Can highly recommend ASUS, most of their models can be flashed with custom firmware that is supported beyond EOL. And their EOL cycle is also pretty long.

I’m born in that era, and where I live, I must authorize bank transactions via app, pay parking tickets through an app, use an app for public transport, and need to scan a QR code that’s changing every 90 seconds to access my gym.

There is no workaround for the parking app, other than inconveniencing myself and staying at malls exclusively. The gym doesn’t have an alternative either. I could surely switch, but that’s the only option.

For banking, sure, I could do stuff over the counter like some octogenarian, wasting time getting there and waiting in line. That changes a 20 second procedure into a minimum 1h long one, provided whatever I’m trying to pay happens during service hours of my bank. No thanks.

Public transport would be the easiest, though that only applies for subways and trains where counters and vending machines exist. At bus stops we don’t have those, and drivers aren’t selling tickets anymore. You must board with a valid ticket, which usually only works through an app, unless you have a monthly ticket that can still be bought as a paper pass.

It’s the same crap as Twitter, I don’t get why people ever used it in the first place.

I refuse to use that piece of crap. We have to use MS at work and they gave us free 10 TB with our volume license, and the only thing on it are documents saved by accident because it set itself up as default save as location on some clients without being asked for. Utter garbage.

Use the browser version in Edge. That and outlook are the only two things I’m using that browser for, and it works great. The standalone software is an utter disaster.

I wasn’t entirely sincere in my comment.

Someone’s gotta give that sheik’s new chick a nice pair of tiddies.