The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
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@neil I do worry that we're seeing the beginning of the end of personal computing, in the sense of being able to own a machine that you control and that does your bidding.
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@dan Hah! That made me laugh.
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Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.
Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.
* No age or ID verification
* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run
* No third party accounts
@neil There is exactly one person who gets to decide what happens in my computer. Me.
If you want to run things in my world, you play by my rules and only my rules.
Wait Shit. Am I'm turning in to a conservative, I want things to remain how they were twenty years ago... Is this is what they meant about getting more conservative when you get older?
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Y’know @neil one of these days you’re going to wake up and find you’ve become a revolutionary anarchist, relatively speaking.
Same here. My opinions remain fairly constant, but the Overton Window almost keeps rushing past.
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The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
@neil I think we've already gone that way with cars. It's difficult (impossible?) to buy one now that just belongs to you with mno ties to the manufacturer or seller.
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@neil I think we've already gone that way with cars. It's difficult (impossible?) to buy one now that just belongs to you with mno ties to the manufacturer or seller.
Yet we all accept it.@mikecox This is indeed one of the reasons why I am struggling to replace my car at the moment, because I don't want to accept that.
I might not get what I want.
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The fact that it is happening is what is baffling me.
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@neil There is exactly one person who gets to decide what happens in my computer. Me.
If you want to run things in my world, you play by my rules and only my rules.
Wait Shit. Am I'm turning in to a conservative, I want things to remain how they were twenty years ago... Is this is what they meant about getting more conservative when you get older?
@emily_s No, Conservatives want things to remain the same because they control them, change threatens that control. You want to control any changes you make, that is different.
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@mikecox This is indeed one of the reasons why I am struggling to replace my car at the moment, because I don't want to accept that.
I might not get what I want.
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The fact that it is happening is what is baffling me.
@neil
Increased Shareholder Value as always.
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@emily_s No, Conservatives want things to remain the same because they control them, change threatens that control. You want to control any changes you make, that is different.
@aadeacon But I do currently control my computer, and I want to retain that control... I do not want someone else to take away the control I already have over my things
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@Tak Yes, computers.
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@Kantikainen @SuperMoosie Yes, and that is fine *while that remains an option*.
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> you're going to wake up and find you’ve become a revolutionary anarchist
Wow. I sound *sexy*.
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The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
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The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
@neil Haha! got out before this gets a hellthread again! -
@zer0unplanned A practical suggestion, thanks!
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> I believe a distinction is necessary between using a computer as a personal tool and using it as a means of communication
I don't!
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@lydiaconwell Well thank goodness for that!
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> Age verification has nothing to do with "using one's own computer", it's about running the software on a [your] computer
And running software on a computer is a form of using it...
