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RandomPrivacyGuy @ RandomPrivacyGuy @lemm.ee
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  • A device should be able it indicate in its browser headers whether its primary user is an adult or a minor and the service can react accordingly.

    I can already see that being used for targeting children with specific ads on the internet.

  • Also I’m am very curious as to how you even got a bluescreen. I don’t even remember when I last saw one.

    That's the thing - I wasn't really doing anything. I had my web browser open, had steam running in the background. I moved my mouse around and then got jumpscared with a blue screen saying "unexpected store exception". I even managed to catch the blue screen on camera and send it to my friend to make that "windows just works" joke.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    RandomPrivacyGuy @lemm.ee

    Windows doesn't "just work"

    I've been using Linux exclusively for about 8 years. Recently I got frustrated with a bunch of issues that popped one after another. I had a spare SSD so I decided to check out Windows again. I've installed Windows 11 LTSC. It was a nightmare. After all the years on Linux, I forgot how terrible Windows actually is.

    On the day I installed the system and a bunch of basic software, I had two bluescreens. I wasn't even doing anything at that time, just going through basic settings and software installation. Okay, it happens. So I installed Steam and tried to play a game I've been currently playing on Linux just to see the performance difference. And it was... worse, for some reason. The "autodetect" in game changed my settings from Ultra to High. On Linux, the game was running at the 75 fps cap all the time. Windows kept dropping them to around 67-ish a lot of times. But the weirdest part was actual power consumption and the way GPU worked. Both systems kept the GPU temperature at around