Just to clarify, it would be wise to avoid a lot of the language around scores and so on. Many of the mass shooters over the last few years have been related to the Terrorgram group, a bunch of idiots who glorify violence in the language of video games. They include the Christchurch shooter who live streamed his attack on a mosque in New Zealand. If you want to use the phrasing around a high score it would be a good idea to be very clear about what you mean as those idiots have a tendency to see anything that is not outright against them as probably in favour. If you are interested a podcast called Weird Little Guys is great for learning more about far right weirdos.

As with all other scientific things someone knows more than me, but I will give my opinion.

The last step is the greatest weakness. The result has to somehow be sent to the website and verified. If you have physical access to the device doing the verification then it will eventually be spoofed. A man in the middle attack would be easy enough given that the device absolutely has to go via a network the user controls.

Beyond the transmission issues, biologically there are not any markers that are a clear and simple age measure. Most biomarkers are more of a range with ages that correlate to some degree. You could say for example testosterone, but that goes up through puberty from a baseline in kids to an adult level, but the adult levels are really varied. Some people are higher than others and some XX people have higher testosterone levels than some XY people, and visa versa for oestrogen. So with the sex hormones out, you would want something that accumulates over time. Unfortunately that is going to vary by where a person lives and what they are exposed to. Honestly it is not at all workable.

That said, a simple solution which would make much more sense than any of this crap is to just have something on the internet account end. If the ISP can offer a check box for “Block adult sites and services” and people can opt in to that then kids will only get access to the full internet when their parents allow it or they are old enough to have their own device on their own internet plan.

If the government want to make a system to protect kids from adult stuff on the internet that is great. If they make it opt in that is all fine with me. But if they make it something you have to verify your age for, using things like state issued ID or facial inspection by an algorithm, then I think it is disastrous. It will be circumvented rapidly by people who are old enough to verify but simply do not want to. That technique will be shared with kids. Kids will be able to bypass it. This nanny state approach is not actually about protecting kids in my opinion. I think the companies involved will use the data, the face images for during verification, as training data for AI models, use the licence data for various profit driven business activities, and in the process make us all less secure. They will eventually have a leak or hack that exposes your data including what site you were on and your licence. The only question is when.

Mouldimort: Joaaaaane!

Found it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUeDr5TeIw

Choosing a distro is both very easy and very hard. The easy answer is go with the flow, look for what the most popular distros are and see what appeals from those. A common distro will have lots of other people with the possibility of having the same issues you have finding solutions. It makes troubleshooting way easier and is worth the distro not being perfect if you can get more support.

The hard answer is don’t choose a distro. Try distros. Maybe before killing your Windows install get VirtualBox and install various distros in VMs and try them out. Performance is fairly good in a VM so you can get a realistic idea if how it will work for you in terms of how intuitive it is to find things, how the workflow is, and whether it is too opinionated about how things are done.

For example, Ubuntu has a little less ability to control things at a deep level, but it is more supportable because everyone using it either does or does not have a given problem.

At the other end is something like Arch which is more of a base than a distro. You choose your desktop environment, what services you want, all the back ends, and you have to configure it yourself.

I would recommend EndeavourOS as a great Arch based distro.

I have found that with Arch I don’t run out of troubleshooting before the problem is solved like I did with Debian. That said, the learning curve is a little steep so not switching makes sense, but I find it better personally. Just like in Windows things are out of your control I felt that Debian had strong defaults and I had trouble changing them too far. I am sure ignorance played a role but I have found the documentation on the Arch wiki was more useful in actually solving my problems.

Yeah, I think the sentence structure is not really clear and while reality tries very hard to constrain humans we are creative and make chaos wherever we go. Could it have been a backroom MRI? I mean, I should be able to say absolutely not, definitely not, and yet, here we are. The modern American healthcare system is so scam and grift filled that the idea of someone taking an MRI, maybe an old outdated one, and then offering services without proper training and oversight so they can undercut and make a profit is not outlandish. It should be so obvious this was bad wording. We live in the worst timeline.

I can’t remeember if me too, but probably…

Glad it wasn’t a dodgy backroom MRI or similar.

The language here is really confusing and the link to the police statement is broken for me. When they say and unauthorized MRI room do they mean he was unauthorized to enter or something about the MRI room being unauthorized, like a backroom dodgy deal sort of thing?

When I lived in the UK we just did British Christmas, so it was during winter. That said, my family was pretty limited in terms of Christmas engagement.

Yeah, rhymes with mouse and house. Usually said with a very strong accent, more on the extreme end, and often the vowel sound is quite extended, like grooooouuuuuuse.

Soz is sorry, not in a super serious way though. You wouldn’t use it for bereavement, but for leaving dishes in the sink it would be fine.

Grouse, as in “That’s grouse!” is a general exclamation and usually very positive. Much more common in our southern state of Victoria but can be found all over to a lesser degree.

Hey Mickey7,

Stonetoss is a Nazi propagandist. The fact that a single comic does not contain a clear Nazi propaganda idea does not mean it is reasonable to share it. Anything from that source is suspect and the source itself should be considered dodgy. If storm front had a great breakdown of a current event it would still be a Nazi website and should not be shared.

When she is shutting down don’t see it as a rejection, see it more as an involuntary shut down due to system overload. She doesn’t want to be alone because of you being annoying or bad, she needs to be alone because she is overloaded.

The solution? Support her. She needs to be alone, OK, how can you help her do that more effectively? Can you help her predict that need and take the break before it becomes a shutdown? It will take less times to recover if she doesn’t go all the way to full shutdown before stopping.

If you can predict you will see the causes and over time you can potentially support her in making more informed choices about what she does. Maybe there is a group of people she should keep her activities with time limited, like 2 hours max or something, so she can enjoy their company without burning out. Pointing out what you have noticed without any pushing or judgement can be helpful, but be mindful of how you communicate. It would be very easy for her to feel restricted or pushed by these observations, so communicate clearly that you have noticed something not that she should or should not do something.

Also, a clear communication strategy for what she needs is useful. The same question set every time, a small selection of options, all presented the same way. For example, “Do you need quiet time? Do you want me to be here? Do you need me not to talk?” That sort of question set allows her to have you there, calm, silent, and stable without having to figure out that is what she needs at a time she has no resources to figure things out with.

The good thing is it fails properly. This should not continue because it would break your system. The package ownership of those files has changed but the package manager would have to remove the current owning package then install the new owning package after in two separate transactions. Technically this could be make possible I think it would lead to bad packaging and would be bad practice. Happily it fails loudly and makes next steps fairly clear.

Slow cooker, put 2kg brisket and ~120ml water in, low setting, 8 hours. Put brisket on rack, coat with a mix of tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, and mustard. Into oven at 200°C for about 20 minutes. Take it out, wrap in foil, cool until near freezing, then slice thin.

This is cheaper for 4 days of lunches than one day of takeaway for me. No nursing the food, just set a reminder and forget.

Yeah, honestly having kids around and watching them learn things like target audience and how to not blindly repeat stuff they hear is great, making it more fun and chaotic is awesome

Yeah, they would definitely repeat it at inopportune times, but what is life if not opportunities for comedy?

Naughty of nice is great too, and HYCYBH is amazing

Or dexamphetamine, the other primary stimulant for ADHD.