aaand those and the usere will be punished when found

thats like saying a CPU cannot be used to run malicious code and be used against you, because all it does is maths, and maths cant hurt you, and would you really outlaw maths just because someone uploaded a picture of you to facebook?

TPMs have a use, that can be good for users too, I don’t doubt that. but because of its capabilities it enables so much user hostile shit. and frankly the tradeoffs are not worth it. just look at what happened, and still is evolving by the way on android, but iOS too. bootloaders that are not possible to unlock were bad already, but this is terrible, that they are literally making it impossible to take ownership of your own devices, to get rid of all the factory malware, if you need to use certain services that most people don’t want to or simply just aren’t allowed to give up.

Quick glance on my installed programs, and I count 7 apps I heavily use in windows 11 with no linux version, nor a clear equivalent that could replace them without extensive hacks that may or may not work and be a total waste of my time.

if you tell us the names, maybe someone can help

Also a funny thing: I installed Debian with KDE and then GNOME last year on another PC, and guess what? KDE & GNOME came bloated with a bunch of apps, games, office suite, code editor and other shit.

that’s the decision of the distribution, not KDE/Gnome. often it is configurable in the installer, even in debian to some level.

The same cleanup & customization did for windows 11 I had to do to Debian KDE and then GNOME.

to be fair if uninstalling unneeded programs is the only thing you do on 11, you’re leaving in lots of things.

Let people use what they want.

I agree that insufferable jerks are insufferable jerks, but I don’t think most people want to use windows 11, but that’s what they can use, for one reason or another, some of which have a solution, some of which not yet. if anything, I would bet money most would rather just stay on 10.

TPM has nothing to do with any privacy invasion, AI, or anything bad really.

are you living under a rock, or have you been not using an Android phone in the past decade? that’s exactly what is happening! through the use of the TPM, apps can verify whether you run a google corporate approved operating system, or something else, even if just slight differences, but also if you use a real clean and respectful system.

plenty of apps do this. including banking apps, while banks are restricting their web banking sites to not work on phones (because that “gives us security from hackers”, no I’m not joking this is what my bank told publicly 2 months ago, in the EU), pps that use some form of DRM, and even work related apps that show you your current working hours and needs to be used for work related manners!

it is “automated” by some “peasants” they are already paying “too much”. maybe they want to reduce those costs too.

also AI serverparks may consume so much power that they are more costly (for now?), but at least they don’t question your commands. maybe that’s how they see it.

I’ve seen posts here that admit they run an autoposter on their accounts, mostly for memes.

I disagree. if someone is running AI accounts with whatever reason, including trying to steer opinion, it would be kind of important to find them and know who does it

windows update is known to force updates down your throat, even when it is just not appropriate right now. that’s not how things work on linux.

Let me rephrase it : OP sounds super high-maintenance. If i am meeting with another adult, it’s not to baby-sit them. It’s not to always be wondering whether i am giving them enough affirmation, or whether they are getting agitated because they feel i’m not focused 100% on them.

I don’t think OP’s problem is the lack of affirmation. I think their concern is somewhat similar to the meeting partner starting to browse social media on their phone, but here not because of bordedom or addiction but because the children needs attention, which is just how children work naturally, with varying frequency. and so, I think it’s not about whether the partner actively participates, but whether they are listening or if they are distracted so you are basically talking to a wall.

but you know what, I realized that I don’t have enough information to know what OP thinks, and maybe I’m just trying to put into words how I see it.

That is not to say you should meet with someone and completely ignore them. But when adults meet, there’s this tacit understanding that everybody’s got their own shit going on, and there may be the odd interruption or the occasional shift of focus. Your work phone may ring. A kid may get hurt and need a hug. Hell, maybe someone from your Minecraft group hits you up on Discord for some urgent topic. I don’t give a shit, i’m not the center of the universe, and i can look at my phone for 10 minutes while you get your stuff out of the way.

hmm I see. I think these are fine, shit happens, and these don’t have a very high probability of happening either anyway. but (without much experience) I feel that with 2 very young kids as in OP’s situation, the distractions could easily be frequent, and that is why I think he is right to decline the offer

which is so dumb by the way.

I think I read a few months ago in their repo that it’s being worked on, but does not seem so.

several ways

• screen recording
• accessibility services
• ADB

Fine, assuming you are right, what’s the alternative ?

that’s easy, you even said it out loud:

And if the kid is educated well, he would refuse alchool from an adult that is not his parent or relatives. If not maybe you should educated your kid better than that.

now just replace alcohol with porn, and its done. just like they would drink your alcohol, they are using your internet access, its your job and responsibility to limit their access to both of these.

Well, I don’t need to lock my liquor cabinet because I educated my kids.
And now that they are old enough they know that they can simply ask instead of stealing.

Congratulations, you have found the solution to kids accessing inappropriate content on the internet.

if the kid is educated well, he would refuse watching porn on a website. If not maybe you should educated your kid better than that.

use education instead of invasive age verification systems.

that’s the same thing I attempted to say

that’s the same thing I attempted to say

that’s the same thing I attempted to say

that’s the same thing I attempted to say

You realize that most functional adults have the ability to focus on more than one person at a time right? Just because mom is taking a moment to wipe some spit off of babies face doesn’t mean she’s not listening to the person on the other side of the table. And the idea of that seems to be exactly the OP’s deal (and yours, apparently)

well its fortunate if all the kid needs is an occasional wipe

I “grace them with my presence” mentality of the post that makes them the asshole.

honestly I did not see it as if OP were pretending to be some kind of a higher level individual.

You realize that most functional adults have the ability to focus on more than one person at a time right? Just because mom is taking a moment to wipe some spit off of babies face doesn’t mean she’s not listening to the person on the other side of the table. And the idea of that seems to be exactly the OP’s deal (and yours, apparently)

well its fortunate if all the kid needs is an occasional wipe

I “grace them with my presence” mentality of the post that makes them the asshole.

honestly I did not see it as if OP were pretending to be some kind of a higher level individual.

but you’re not going to live with them. you don’t have to abandon an old acquaintance just because they have kids and you are not interested in the kids… it’s not like they are physically attached to them inseparably.

if they can put the kids to the grandparents or the SO can be with them, then why not accept the offer? and if not, like here, just politely decline if you really don’t want to deal with the situation. but you don’t have to alienate yourself at all costs because they have kids.