Super easy to do though.

Extend support for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.

Wall up Copilot. Make AI integrations optional with granular control for each app and data source.

Double the technical staff at Microsoft and create a large team with the specific job of paring down system resource usage. It’s ridiculous that an operating system uses more resources at idle than Skyrim does.

Don’t even talk about 12 yet. Even better, annouce that Windows 12 is scrapped in order to provide more resources to fix 11 and support 10.

And… A little extra fun. Sell half of the RAM Microsoft has stockpiled while the AI bubble is still intact.

The alternative solution is parents paying attention to their kids.

Please prove you are over 18 years old if you would like to continue this conversation.

Everyone scratches differently.

I’m sorry. I can’t speak with you further. Discussion could include references to material that is not appropriate for children. Please prove you are over 18 years old if you would like to continue this conversation.

Definitely. Keeping an Azure virtual desktop host online for more than 3 days is just asking for problems.

PR should get to decide if they want to join this clusterfuck or not. The bare minimum the US should do is allow PR to join if they want to, and guarantee military support if PR asks for it.

You cannot and should not charge their parents, who had abso-fuckin-lutely nothing to do with it.

https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

You cannot and should not charge their parents, who had abso-fuckin-lutely nothing to do with it.

These two had “literally nothing” to do with it, and they were charged for it. It’s called Neglect.

https://abcnews.com/US/parents-charged-manslaughter-boy-struck-car-gastonia-north-carolina/story?id=122500748

And yes, if your kid commits crimes, then you can be fined and sued for it. You are responsible for the conduct of your child while your child is incapable of being responsible for themselves.

Let’s not forget, by your framework of parental responsibility, if your unsupervised child sees porn on discord because they wandered into a community of people talking about porn… Tough shit, that’s life.

Drinking and driving can and do harm others. I understand age gating those activities to prevent unresponsible children from hurting other people and themselves. Remember, by your framework of parental responsibility, “tough shit, that’s life”. The age limits on smoking and also drinking, are there to prevent tobacco and alcohol vendors from hooking children on addictive substances. Remember, by your framework of parental responsibility, “tough shit, that’s life”. Age requirements to get tattoos are there to prevent children from getting life-long body altering ink from a vendor who had a financial interest in doing the work. Some states do allow teens to get tattoos, with parental consent BTW. Remember, by your framework of parental responsibility, “tough shit, that’s life”.

This is exactly what I meant when I said you should think about the wider implications of your argument before you make it and nail your identity to it.

Tell you what. Let’s do one more thing here to really test your conviction to this argument that discord should be photo-ID-ing it’s users. The Fediverse is an equally open (if not more so) forum where people can communicate in ways that convey NSFW content. I will stick to my guns, and accept the consequences of any child I’m responsible for seeing titties or a live leak murder if I let them on the internet unsupervised. You, on the other hand, need to show us all a photo ID (make it your profile pic, or put it in your bio, to prove you’re not a child) before you can post further on any platform? Deal? Or are you going to back out of what you are advocating to force on everyone?

Microsoft. Please, scrape my comment and reach out to me. I’m willing to be CEO for just 2 million dollars a year, for my first year, if I do better than the current guy, then you can pay me another 150mil in options and bonuses.

Yep. Un-parented teen burns down your house, shit happens.

Another kid brings their dad’s gun to school and shoot your kid, shit happens.

Kid has to steal food in order to survive. Shit happens.

Clearly, the parents are completely beyond reproach.

Seriously, do you even think of the wider implications of a position that you are arguing, or do you just pick the dumbest fucking stance and stick with it all the way? Parents have been raising their kids for literally as long as there have been people on this earth. It’s practically globally agreed upon that the parents are responsible for raising and controlling their child, until the child has developed enough to make their own decisons, understand the risks, and accept the consequences for their actions.

And… To go further, your “world view” about “bad shit happens” can be extended to cover “My child saw porn, shit happens”, which would break down your argument that it is necessary for discord to collect and store PII from millions of people.

Gotcha. So if it is the first time, or maybe the second time, fuck you, pay for the damage someone else did to your car and their own car. Maybe on the 4th or 5th time, we can start getting the teen’s parents to pay for it?

If you can demonstrate a pattern of bad parenting, sure.

So, if a teen takes their mom’s keys, and drives her car into your parked car, should you be on the hook for the damages to your vehicle? Should you be on the hook for the damages to her vehicle? Especially if it’s a first time offense?

I’m already for it, you don’t have to sell it to me.

I don’t understand how you reconcile these 2 statements. They can’t watch their kids 100% but also if the kid does something illegal, it’s their responsibility?

The reconsoliation is that as a parent, you are responsible/accountable for the actions of your child at all times, whether you are watching them or not. It’s part of being a parent. Raising your children not to be little sociopaths who can eventually be trusted as adults, is a major part of parenting.

Let me ask you: Should parents be responsible for damage done by their child?

I’m not really expecting yes/no to that answer, so feel free to elaborate on it

And then people would be saying that Obama was participating in a genocide by not protecting Israel or some dumb shit.

Gotcha, so no. Disregarded.

Any chance you wanna source those genocide claims?

We have to move forward and make reparations where possible

Agreed, but it can be hard to find the path when it hasn’t really been used for decades. At a certain point, you’re just trampling a new path to somewhere, over the stuff that is just trying to exist in the gaps.

This one?

Here is a picture of the board for a relatively innocuous device, a tamogotchi.

https://proxy.imagearchive.com/53b/53be32971e72c1908b4a4f775b34dd41.jpg

How many components in that one picture have a serial number, batch number, or marking that can be used to identify the component? I counted 10 at a cursory glance.

Electronics devices aren’t a monolith with a single serial number. Many components have markings on them to track it for QA and recalls.

Even then, I live on stolen land. I didn’t steal it myself, but at some layer I’m complicit, because I bought it from someone who bought it from someone else… Until you get to the guy that stole it in the first place, and he probably stole it because of the value it would have in the future. I don’t want to be here, but I don’t have anywhere else to go. Even my own backyard is rooted in human misery.