If I earned 60k a year while working what is a normal week, I don’t even think I would be seeking extra income. That is more money that I can even imagine managing now. If I were male, my spouse could even go without working entierely because my income would be enough!

Pixels are only good for easy degoogled OS installation.

To avoid said potential liability? Or because the law would include actual enforcement, like it was proposed at least in some places?

If this would indeed be the case, I would be really happy.

How ages are verified are irrelevant? Until a whole collection of faces or government IDs inevitably leaks!

Trusting your face to Facebook is just as terrifying, thanks.

(Plus I have concerns as someone who still looks teenage in her 20s)

To be fair, I wouldn’t really count on a VPN not collecting logs - if I can’t check it, better assume they’re collected. This may not matter as much, but I still wouldn’t rely on this for anything sensitive.

Also, the free VPNs can harm you in more ways than just selling your traffic logs, such as making you a part of a proxy botnet.

Used to listen to them as podcasts, and I didn’t really like them because they were all so damn short. Feels like they’re not covering the topic enough, and just as you’ve got invested - it’s already over.

Also here, where a VPN or proxy is a “must” for using the internet normally, there are also some ran by charities. But yeah, the omnipresence of shady free VPNs is very concerning.

There have been suggestions that this line references them: “Are you trying to escape? Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What’s going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I’m not sure what’s going on outside. All I know is I’m the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was”.

She might just be lying like she usually does, but it still wouldn’t be surprising if it indeed was that time period.

I was under the impression that she knew and was deliberately laying low… Also, wasn’t she built before these events?

TBH I mostly get mine from Youtube, although have recently tried Soulseek.

IDK if this is accurate, but it’s absolutely my headcanon as to why Glados decided to murder everyone almost immediately after she was turned on. She just vacuumed up the collective stupidity of the Internet.

I would find having all my music on streaming EXTREMELY inconvenient. Not only can you lose access to some of it, not only are you paying continuously, but you’re also locked to a specific player for this all. I do use streaming, but only for discovering new tracks. I do have a bigger collection on streaming - the tracks I like but not particularly so - but the main collection is just more convenient to have locally. I didn’t download it all at once so no inconvenience here - just download a song as soon as I realize I like it enough.

Also even if I could afford to pay for my media, I’d rather buy digital DRMed downloads rather than CDs if DRMless aren’t available. Not to actually use, but to correspond to the copy I do use. Specifically because it’s indeed impractical, can be hard to get and and will be ripped anyway.

My newer laptop doesn’t have a CD drive and I never once felt the need to use it. Why do so if an external SSD fits multiple times more data, takes up less space and is rewriteable?

My whole music library is local and DRMless. I find CDs highly impractical in the age of cheap high-capacity storage. I would rip them anyway, as using normal copies is just far more convenient, after which they’d need to either waste space, be resold or be thrown out. If I were insistent on paying and there was no DRMless option, I’d rather buy a DRMed copy corresponding to the one I downloaded.

Problem: this is what happens when Apple is the trendsetter, then whether you personally chose it doesn’t matter.

I am using ESDF because my “A” key stopped being as responsive, didn’t expect someone to do this on purpose!

Maybe the preferred Linux distro doesn’t work with them. I had to use another distro for a while because Debian didn’t immediately support the card, but there are apparently cases where the internal card just permanently wouldn’t work (like in fully free software distros). I would rather replace the card inside the laptop than use a dongle, but idk if this can always be the answer.

My first thought was hacking.