Neil Brown10h ago
The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.
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Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

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@neil exactly this, which is what we all did last millennium and even several years into this one. Its shocking how fast that went away.
So where would you start, these days?
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