I don't think I am. How else do you verify a person's age?
So far the options seem to be:
I suppose you could use a credit card transaction, but so far nobody seems to be going that route.
Regardless, ALL of this shit is a poor substitute for decent parenting.
First, calm down! There's pretty much no way you broke your computer doing this, and unless you installed Linux over your C: drive by mistake, then you probably didn't even accidentally lose any data.
I really thought I was doing it right and installing Pop to my second D drive to leave windows alone but somehow it completely broke Windows and I can load into that, only Pop!
Dual-booting is kind of a mess at the best of times. In the future I would recommend backing up ALL of your important data before doing anything involving partitions or OS installed, regardless of whether it's Linux or Windows.
Assuming you didn't install over your Windows install or anything like that, then your Windows partitions and stuff should still be there on your other drive. There are a couple of things you can try in order to confirm that your data is still where you left it.
Reboot your PC and press whatever key is needed to enter into your UEFI/BIOS menu OR your boot device selection menu. From there you should be able to try to instruct your computer to boot directly into whatever drive you think has Windows installed on it. If that works, you should still be able to boot into Windows (and then back up your important data!).
If for whatever reason you still can't boot into Windows, another thing you can try is to "mount" your old Windows NTFS drive within Linux using something sudo mount /dev/YOURPARTITION /mnt, where YOURPARTITION is whatever NTFS partition your C drive is on (it'll probably be something like "/dev/sdX" or "/dev/nvmeXnY"). Once you've mounted your C drive to /mnt, you should be able to use the cd and ls command to look around your files, at which point you should absolutely make sure that you make a backup copy of everything you care about before you proceed.
(To drive the point home, making a proper backup of your system before doing any OS-level stuff is not only a good idea, but in the future it'll save you a lot of stress and/or heartbreak.)
Note: If mounting your NTFS fails, that doesn't necessarily mean anything has gone terribly wrong. sometimes that can happen when Windows doesn't shut down properly, leaving a flag in the wrong state. If that happens, you can still fix it, but that's a different story.
I guess isn't really my GPU (Nvidia 1080ti I think) so on my 4k monitor everything is blown up and the wrong aspect ratio, cutting off the bottoms of windows
I don't know about PopOS specifically, but I would assume this is because NVidia dropped support for 10-series cards from their most recent Linux driver. I ran into a similar issue with my little 1060-3gb, recently, and it sucks. I solved it by upgrade to a RX 9060 xt, which works flawlessly.
If you're not too afraid of the terminal, you should still be able to access a full-screen Linux terminal (called a TTY or virtual terminal) using Ctrl+Alt+F3. From there you'll at least be able to control you computer and check that everything is still working and all of your data is safe. I don't know enough about Pop to say if/how you can change the resolution or fix your driver situation from there... Ctrl+Alt+F2 usually brings you right back to the desktop, by the way.
I've tried some terminal stuff I've read online already but nothing has worked and I'm afraid to do the purge ~nnvidia command because it said it might turn my screen black and if I can't even get into Pop! then I'm screwed.
I've never seen a driver situation that's so broken that you can't at least get into a TTY using Ctrl+Alt+F3.
Have you tried getting on your phone and visiting the PopOS discord or other chat rooms?
I would argue that they're closely related.
Imagine a circumstance in which you have to use your real ID to sign up for a social media site which happens to be owned by a billionaire oligarch with close ties to an out-of-control fascist authoritarian president with no reservations about pulling whatever string he can to maintain his grip on power, and I think you'll understand why.
You may know my user name, but really not too much else about me, because of the partial anonymity of having a username which is loosely coupled to my real life identity.
If we lived in a world where we could trust our government or the corporations that control mainstream social media, then maybe it wouldn't be an issue. We don't.
In my experience with kink communities, shame can really do a number on people's psychology. It feels like there are always two camps of people: the ones who simply learn to say "fuck it" and embrace their weird side, and those who really become very depressed and self-isolating because they're made to feel like an aberration. That level of internal conflict, where you spend your entire life fighting against your own (otherwise legally and ethically non-problematic) desires due to internalized shame is a dark and dangerous path.
And like... I get it. To an outsider, any kink that you don't have can definitely seem weird, gross, undesirable, etc. But then again, even vanilla sex acts can seem gross when you imagine other people doing them. Still, I think a lot of people in the kink space end up struggling with negative feelings about themselves.
Plus, there are a certain group of very puritanical and judgemental people who desperately want to describe (without any psychiatric qualifications) any behavior they don't understand as being "mental illness", but ironically, I think the most mentally healthy thing any kinky person can do is simply to accept and embrace their kink.
My message to any kinky people out there is to do whatever you can to accept yourself. Unless your kink involves something that is seriously dangerous to yourself and others, or otherwise legally or ethically dubious, then odds are that the best thing that you can do is just come to terms with being, as Rick James said, a "superfreak".
I suppose that's possible, but I feel like I've talked to a lot of people in the kink space who developed their particular interests from a young pre-pubescent age, before they were even really sexually aware. A shocking number of kinksters will tell you that they feel that their fascination came "preinstalled". 😅
For AI training to ever be considered "fair use" it should be limited to partial section of a given work:
The idea that these fucking techbro assholes can just rip off everything in the world without any limitations so that they can make endless profit for themselves is totally unacceptable.
I'd go one further and say kink itself!
Sure it's not for everyone... But people act like it's some crazy abomination, when most of the time it's just some variation of sex + roleplay.
How do you propose stopping it?
The people who propose "age gating" social media are essentially advocating the end of Internet anonymity and privacy for us all. After all, you can't effectively determine one users age or identity without collecting them all.
Is removing digital privacy really something we want to be flirting with? Especially in the era of Palantir, Flock, and the Trump Administration?
Democracy, freedom of speech, and privacy are all related.
Without privacy, one can't have freedom of speech because bad actors and authoritarians in power can and will silence critics. Without freedom of speech, one can't live in a democracy, because having the ability to organize and speak out against those in power without fear of persecution is the basis of democracy.
Maybe I'm just more cynical than most, but I don't see the elimination of all privacy on the Internet as a good solution for something that can otherwise be managed by basic parenting and personal agency.
We are fools if we willingly give the corporate oligarchs that control mainstream social media (and, by extension, Trump) our full real identities in a futile attempt to "think about the children".
Not just Americans.
I'm starting to wonder what percentage of the human population is even capable of learning from example.
While I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, the only peaceful outcome I can see is actually just a continuation of the status quo, where mainland China uses "reunification" messaging as little more than a show of strength and patriotic political rhetoric, and where the Western world continues to treat Taiwan's independence with "strategic ambiguity" while hinting to China that any attempt to take Taiwan will be met with a large scale Western response from the US and allies.
I do think that the West wants Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine to be a sign of what China should expect if they were to attempt to annex Taiwan. It won't be easy, it'll throw trade and supply chains into absolute chaos, and it'll be met with harsh economic sanctions and large weapons deals at the very least. The West wants China to feel that there is very little upside to attacking Taiwan, and that it's much more reasonable to maintain the status quo (though arguably, tariffs and trade wars needlessly remove some of the US's economic leverage over China).
Rhetoric aside, how much chaos and bloodshed is China really willing to tolerate just for the pyrric victory of finishing what Mao started almost a century ago?
I think the main hope for peace is that Xi and the ruling members of the CCP feel that it's in their personal best interest to talk a big game while doing the bare minimum to disrupt the systems that they currently benefit from.
No. Generally I don't do things that I feel are wrong or unethical, and I know that there are plenty of people doing bad things in society right now and that I'm not one of them.
Alright, I've changed my description to "peer-to-peer".
So far, I've tried and enjoyed:
And there are still plenty more that I haven't really tried yet! The fediverse is pretty huge!
As for recommending specific sites, that's a bit harder since it's healthy that not everybody is on the same server. So I would just recommend picking a reasonably popular server with open registration.
This is kind of the fundamental question of philosophy, right...? How should we live? What is the meaning and purpose of live? What constitutes a good live?
For me, I take a somewhat existentialist approach to life. I think we have to find subjective meaning and value in an inherently absurd and chaotic world, full of too many people who same to only care about themselves. Corruption, religion, politics, cults, corporations, money, conspiracy, lies, bullshit, random acts of violence and hate--all of these things are so senseless and arbitrary, we'd go crazy trying to make sense of it all.
So I choose to value my family, friends, art, music, hanging out, eating good food, chilling out, using open technology to benefit my life, as well as living virtuously as part of trying to be part of a good society.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Personally I think a bit of lewdness should be expected by anyone who is familiar with the source material and Shirow Masamune. After all, this is a guy who has spent a big part of his career drawing semi-erotic illustrations, so it's fine for GitS to be at least a little bit sexy.
As a fan of both Ghost in the Shell and Science Saru, I really hope this is good.
GitS is one of those series where I don't feel like there's a perfect or definitive version--each manga, movie and show has its own strengths and weaknesses on display, and they all indirectly contribute to a bigger picture of what the world and characters are all about.
My hope and expectation for this new show is simply that it adds its own contribution while doing justice to the characters, exploring the series' themes as they relate to today, and telling an interesting story that's fun to watch.
I'm not 100% sold on the look yet myself, but to be fair, I think they're really at least trying to channel the look of the original manga by Shirow Masamune, which I think had a lot more cartooniness and eroticism in it than what was depicted in Oshii's movies or Kamiyama's series.
It's not as well executed in my opinion, but I'd say they're going for something along the lines of
The company that said not to call it slop like a month ago, right?
They're not promising not to go down the AI path, they're just trying to say that their AI isn't gonna be "slop", when it most certainly is. They just don't get it
Imagine being born with a silver fuckin' spoon in your mouth and still having a chip on your shoulder.
You wouldn't have a $185,000,000 AI startup if your dad wasn't Bill Gates, and he wouldn't have been the who he was if it wasn't for his parent's connections to the tech industry back in the 1970s. Would it kill you to have some fucking perspective?