There is also a 3D spinning globe, so that too.

But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It’s totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the “liveliness” checks that prevent you from using static pictures.

Yeah absolutely, Discord is terrible for privacy either way. What I’m saying is that the verification “requirement” is not actually required for what I would presume the majority of people use Discord for.

Yeah, except it’s not like you get to choose. If you are on the Discord server for rock climbing in your country, you can leave the community, but you don’t have “other options”.

It’s not like the question is “what platform do I want to use for X?”. The question is “The X community uses Discord, do I want to be in it or not?” And of course you can choose to not join, but you don’t have an option to choose another app.

Here in the UK Discord has been requiring this for a while already. I never did the verification, because I don’t access any NSFW Discord servers anyway. Unless you use Discord for porn (or speak on “stages”, whatever they are), there is no reason to do the verification.

Thank you for your account deletion request. For your safety, we have to confirm you are the owner of the account you are trying to delete. Please upload your government ID below.

This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative I’m like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesn’t get anywhere close. I tried really hard to like it and give it a chance, but no.

If the content is still good, and it allows hiring more people and produce more of the good content, then what’s the problem with the channel being bought? Sure, it may enshittify in the future, but let’s not judge them for things that haven’t happened.

They won’t let you send messages without finishing verification

I get what you are saying but I’m seeing this from a different perspective.

The first statement is saying “there is nothing you can do”. You shouldn’t care about your privacy, you shouldn’t try to be careful, you shouldn’t fight for yourself. The government is all powerful and you should accept your fate. That’s why I don’t like these sweeping absolute statements. They promote giving up.

The other is “this is hard, but it’s possible to win”. And sure, you probably won’t win if the government is specifically targeting you and sending agents with rubber hoses against you. But in all likelihood they aren’t. And there are many things you can do to prevent actual passive surveillance affecting you.

So “any phone” turned into “virtually any phone”, and the owner needs to be alive and apprehended, and then they “most likely” can, maybe.

See, I mostly agree with what you said. But you can see how we have moved the goalpoast away from “there is no phone the government cannot get into”, to “the government can get into most phones”, which is quite a different statement.

Is this an advertisement? Sure, yes. The government can get into any phone? No.

Scott Manley has a video on this company and flew it himself, he was quite impressed.

Probably depends on the store, but the 2 times I bought a laptop in my life, both stores had a No OS option in the drop-down, which brought the price down. (One actually came with no OS, the other came with FreeDOS IIRC for some reason)

You are trying to get your displays to work since 2003? Damn…

I saw your other comment, still funny

I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD. It definitely has a learning curve. But I took a few weeks to properly learn it, and I can now do all I did in Fusion. It’s not as polished (although getting there with recent versions) and not as powerful for some applications. But it’s free, open source, and I can laugh at Autodesk and their subscription fees.

Yes it’s misinformation that you have to disable the sshd with a kernel boot parameter, because no sshd is being run in the first place.

You do have to accept the gift though. You can’t just force a game onto someone.

Yeah what I need is an alternative to xprop and xwininfo.