The crime of theft is depriving another person of a possession they have, the dynamics of piracy are completely different.

First - piracy is taking a copy of something that can be produced ad-infinitum. No actual thing is taken from anyone.

Second - the idea that it’s depriving someone of hypothetical income doesn’t hold because often times thing X being unavailable via piracy isnt going to mean the pirate is going to pay, they are just gonna pirate thing Y instead or even just get nothing at all.

Think about it - if dominos pizza was free, I’d eat it a lot more. I’d probably get fat, too, because it’s literally free so I’d eat more. But as it stands it isn’t, and I dont eat it. On the whole I probably eat less total than the amount I would eat if it were free.

The point is - the inherent abundance of digital goods is an inherent behaviour changer and introduces a completely different dynamic than what we’re used to IRL. The scarcity in the digital world is absurd and artificial and it’s stifling human potential to make the line go up.

And third, and this is adjacent - copyright is just absurd to me, it is deeply absurd to me that one could claim ownership over something immaterial as intellectual property in the first place, ideas are not things, they do not belong to anyone, it’s pure category error to suggest otherwise, imo. Not that obviously artists or scientists shouldn’t be credited for coming up with ideas or something but that’s a job for historians, not the police.

Intellectual property’s only benefit is that it really shines a light on how capitalism is not at all some inevitable product of human nature, but in fact requires heavy enforcement and ultimately a threat of violence (prisons) to protect the elite’s ownership of the means of production and the economy at large.

Syncretic collapse mongerer and socialist solarpunk AI utopian on the net 🌐

Democratic Socialist in bed 🛏️

I used to be something of an anarchist before the brainrot set in in my mid-20s.

Culturally I shill against luddism, degrowth, climate/animal/vegan/preservationist/NIMBYist shit.

I’m pro giant skyscrapers everywhere, mega buildings, mega cities, utilitarianism and brutalism in architecture, pro piracy, pro-gentrification, pro-alienating liminal spaces, pro-grid and anti-car city design, and pro AI democratising the artoid crafts to the masses.

In short: DLSS 5? Yes because it makes the games look objectively better in every way.

DLSS 1-4? No, because it adds smear and visual artifacting that brainwashed console children don’t see because they only watch slop shorts in 480p jpegs on they phone and have never played a real video game.

Hopefully we all transcend mortality soon, except the rich, who must be eaten.

I’m also for more vaping, more drugs (except weed and alcohol) and less slave morality amongst the proletariat.

Just use an adblocker?

They love their advertisements, that’s how they know how to vote for the worst thing possible and the ensure the taxpaying peasant is crushed firmly between paying them rent and paying them tax to fund more P&O Cruises.

And when I need to get excited for the next product

No, windows is weird, the ISO is not actually a compressed copy of a disk with all the correct partitions and filesystems, instead it’s some goofy UFS thing. So unlike Linux, burning it won’t work - you can’t do or use anything like dd to end up with a bootable drive.

You can create it by hand though, iirc all you’d need to do is make a separate FAT32.EFI partition and copy some of the EFI files in the ISO’s EFI folder into that, while placing the rest in a normal NTFS partition, there might be more to it with a recovery partition or something like that involved so def look it up if you ever need to, but that’s the gist of it.

The specialized tools like WoeUSB basically do this for you.

I’m trans and bi lol, not straight.

I’ve never heard of monster high or any of this stuff OP talked about, I looked it up, seems to be about some sort of cartoon. What’s the association with gay people?

These are words, yes.

Dafuck? Are you saying this won’t be the case? I mean, it’s not exactly what OP asked but I think a real life functional example of OS-level age checks that already exists is a valuable contribution to the conversation. Do you disagree?

Honestly feels like you’re the “low effort troll” here here swarming a bot army for some votes. Blocked.

Yes. For example, on iOS It’ll work like this once this is no longer “in error” https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

I don’t know about the new law in California, but here in the UK the age verification push is happening is because our young people are overwhelmingly left-wing and progressive, and get their news online and not from our captured legacy media, and the right-wing establishment doesn’t like that, so they’re trying to block young people from internet access.

Edit: wtf is with the downvotes? Do y’all support this shit? Here are some sources to back up what I said:

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/voting-intention -

In the UK: 49% of 18-24 year olds are voting for the Green party, highest of any party by far. 27% of 25-49 year olds are voting for the Greens, with only 19% for Reform (the far-right party).

This trend reverses once you look at the age groups over 50, with 50-65 year olds favouring reform at 29% at Green’s 16%, and over 65s favouring reform at 33% to Green’s 6%.

Furthermore, the other demographics factors like gender and even region(!) don’t demonstrate such a clear correlation, and this is further confirmed by another recent poll done where the surveyed were asked to pick between a left-wing coalition and a right-wing one:

Our elderly consume vastly more print and specifically television news than our young people - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/adult-and-teen-news-consumption-survey/news-consumption-in-the-uk-2025-research-findings.pdf?v=400636

See specifically figure 4 from page 9:

This is very inconvenient for a primarily right-wing establishment. I could see similar dynamics playing out in California though i don’t know enough to say for certain.

Obviously I don’t think this is the only reason that age verification is being implemented, especially as it’s seemingly being done all around the globe all at once, and often companies with known links to Peter Thiel and Palantir and the defense sector are involved, such as with e.g. discord and Thiel did allegedly say he explicitly wants to make a surveillance state. Obviously countries like the UK have been speed running that goal for a while so, make of that what you will.

There’s also seemingly bi-partisan support for this issue from establishment parties, arising from tech ignorance of the boomer class and more genuine, and well-meaning concerns about the spread of misinformation from social liberals and progressives, especially where their country’s young people are turning to far-right misinformation.

I think the combination of these two factors is likely what is pushing the specific law OP is referring to in California, though this is just speculation as I’m not familiar with it’s state legislature and their political makeup.

The recent push for these sorts of laws in Europe also could be explained by the fact that those countries can use regulation as leverage in trade negotiations with an increasingly beligirent united states because they know that Trump’s regime is beholden to the tech oligarchy that amassed around him - the same oligarchy who would stand to lose money if these regulations were implemented because they own the platforms primarily targeted by this.

This last reason is further compounded by the fact that Elon Musk has genuinely been artificially promoting far-right content, including his own, on his platform, and he has been since he acquired it. Considering how many people use twitter, its a genuine risk to the political autonomy and democratic integrity of countries like France, which is also investigating twitter for the algorithm manipulation.

People are fucking weird. I have no idea also. I think it’d be cool if they tried to make a remake even if I personally don’t think it’d be any good and I don’t think I’d play it, same as the crash bandicoot one. I’d much rather they try and I’m sure some people will make it.

The vast majority of anything is not gonna appeal to me, be it games, movies, shows, whatever, but it’s those select few things that make it worthwhile.

I can’t help you, it just sucks. You’re not the only one though, JADE is dreamt up by utterly deranged boomers who don’t have the brain cells to comprehend the obvious and self-evident difference between an explanation and an apology, they are wholly unhinged and often lack basic reading comprehension and literacy, it’s a shame there hasn’t been more wars and pandemics to thin out their ranks so we don’t have to deal with them.

If you think this is cursed… Try playing steam games over X forwarding xD

It’s cool though!

Def dualboot just in case. I just finished a dualboot setup myself where I installed MacOS on a partition after shrinking my main LUKS+LVM root+home kali partition that used to span the drive, after that brain surgery tier shuffling I feel a lot better about doing dual boot setups, lmk if you need any help!

P.S. I’d also use Windows 10 if you can, a lot nicer than 11.

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I just skip the AI stuff same as I’d skip any bad song. If a good song was AI generated I don’t mind it honestly, but I’ve yet to hear one.

In my experience though I’ve not seen a single AI generated song yet. I discover music primarily from Spotify, at the bottom of my playlists where it shows recommended songs to add, or below songs in the player view where it shows “similar to” or something like that.

People can’t and won’t use it because it sucks. Middle mouse click is for two things:

1. open in a new tab
2. scroll/pan

See how they’re both navigation related? Because the mouse is a navigation tool, not a text tool.

A keyboard is a text tool, all pasting should reside on the keyboard. Eagle-eyed readers may notice that there are actually letters on all the buttons they keep mashing at random, those letters are a hint that the keyboard may be used for text-related operations.

Windows sucks now, but it won desktops for a very good reason initially and as Linux is making inroads into personal computing, there are no reasons it can’t learn lessons from why that was the case.

Old Linux GUIs suck and the user experience in general absolutely sucks on anything before Debian 8. Gnome classic was nuked because it sucked, and new Gnome was an improvement in every way, and it was only very recently that KDE got to a similar level of polish.

No one is saying the feature should be completely removed, just like KDE’s insane defaults of “Peek at desktop” in the bottom right instead of “minimize all windows”, it just needs to be hidden somewhere because 99% of users don’t expect a computer to work this way and with good reason.

Leave the legacy toggle in for people who cut their teeth on OSes made by companies that went bankrupt shortly after making them and expect all computers to work like that until the end of time.

Heck - just for them, create a separate clipboard that always holds the user’s nudes and dedicate left mouse click to a shortcut that emails them to their dad for all I care, because it’s how it worked on a random hack of AmigaOS they used in the 1800s, I don’t care, just leave us out of it.

X11 is a protocol that Xorg implements

This. Only correct comment in the entire thread. Rest are people who probably don’t even use computers and have no idea what a mouse is.

Happens all the time.