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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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
Give the world's dangerous slight into extreme right politics, and fascism, using your computer like it's 1999 is seen as radical and anarchist.
Welcome to being radical and anarchist by being the same socialist you were in 1999
Edit: If you think Windows is bad, try setting up a Mac without linking your identity to the device.
Pro Tip: Buy the device with cash and never give the salesperson your email address or mobile number. Good Luck
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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 it already started with the online and cloud based approach for almost anything
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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 @revk I think we should ask what ownership even means today. If I buy a device but can only use it under imposed conditions, like mandatory ID or age checks, do I truly own it? Or is it becoming conditional possession, where key rights no longer lie with the owner? The real issue is whether lawmakers are gradually replacing true ownership with a regulated model of use.
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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?
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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 fwiw this should also apply to phones
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@neil it already started with the online and cloud based approach for almost anything
@giuseppegv @neil
I call it Netflix envy.
When Netflix was at its growth height, generating larger and larger monthly revenue streams CEO's in multiple sectors said "how can we do that our business?".
The era of outright ownership of anything slowly started coming to an end. -
@neil fwiw this should also apply to phones
@Tak Yes, computers.
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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 @lisamelton unless you live on private island of course
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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.
Can say that again indeed...
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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 exactly this, which is what we all did last millennium and even several years into this one. Its shocking how fast that went away.
So where would you start, these days? -
@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
conservatism in my opinion is about “keeping the systems that control others in place”.
This sounds like you wanting to keep control over your systems in place.
Similar sounding, but completely different.
A 2018 comment by one Frank Wilthoit defined conservatism sublimely:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protect[s] but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
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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 They are willingly sabotaging the future of our kids.
They have absolutely no idea how many people got to 'break' their systems and learn from it.I think I was 7 when I first got to play with a 'computer', 13 when I broke my first OS.
Is not only about control, stupid people without skills and critical thinking is easier to manipulate.
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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 We should totally go back to gold ways.
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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 Knowing how many parents or grandparents are either share their own devices or use same account on children/gran children devices. That just means only wealthy enough for having you personal computer/personal mobile phone are affected and age restrictions won't affect poor anyway... unless we make pc/mobile only available to the "wealthy enough"...
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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 Apart from anything else, I think this means that it's not one's own computer.
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@neil it already started with the online and cloud based approach for almost anything
@neil yes and they want subscriptions in order to build a solid and predictable MRR.
I don't blame organizations for making money because it's what they are for (also working in banking I would be hypocrite to say otherwise) but the whole system needs a critical approach. -
@janeishly @neil What happens when somebody you don’t want to use your computer turns it on though?
@gimulnautti @janeishly @neil
That’s why we have locks on doors.
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@neil @revk I think we should ask what ownership even means today. If I buy a device but can only use it under imposed conditions, like mandatory ID or age checks, do I truly own it? Or is it becoming conditional possession, where key rights no longer lie with the owner? The real issue is whether lawmakers are gradually replacing true ownership with a regulated model of use.
@tdr @neil @revk
> lawmakers are gradually replacing true ownership with a regulated
Lawmakers do what they got the bribe money (or future desk) for.The age verification is a smoke screen to the full identification. Then to the full suppression of dissent. Then to the laws that will open the whole new market of slaves being a real commodity.
