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 idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
@neil @Em0nM4stodon There is nothing to be baffled about. This is 1984. It is happening, stop being in denial. Take a look at the laws being pushed forward all over the West, it is not rocket science.
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@neil @Em0nM4stodon There is nothing to be baffled about. This is 1984. It is happening, stop being in denial. Take a look at the laws being pushed forward all over the West, it is not rocket science.
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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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 am very concearned about age verification on OS level thing thats on the talks lately. So i am NOT trying to under estimate this threath, ok. Still i have a total noob question here: how could that ever be enforcable?
Somodoby just goes "fuck that!" Makes a linux distro that does not ask any of that shit and puts it out for free.
How can this effect those users?
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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 Every time I login to Windows using a stupid pin code it makes me fume. It's my fucking computer! I just want to switch it on and start work
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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@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk how else will they monitor everything that you do?
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@neil Every time I login to Windows using a stupid pin code it makes me fume. It's my fucking computer! I just want to switch it on and start work
@janeishly @neil What happens when somebody you don’t want to use your computer turns it on though?
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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 Yeah. Stupid, dangerous, nefarious.
Yet it doesn’t limit that. It’s overtlly an impediment for using somebody else’s service, running on somebody else’s computer.
Autonomy was lost when taking the “cloud” bait and falling into the “cloud” trap. This is just a post-battle mop up.
The hidden agenda is, of course, totalitarian repression. But still, you get to do whatever you want with your thing, and only your thing, as long as it doesn’t touch others. Fire up that compiler!
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@neil Every time I login to Windows using a stupid pin code it makes me fume. It's my fucking computer! I just want to switch it on and start work
theres no option to log in without password on windows these days?
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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
