I am guessing there is something they dont like about my user agent. Here it is in case anyone is curious:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

I run linux/firefox at home, have this exact problem also. Can not shop at HD or Lowes.
So they lose my business. Amazon and Walmart work fine.

That is likely the reason. Not sure why this new patented process would not also work with hemp though?
Wonder what is actually 'new' about the process.

I found it curious that they apparently did not even consider the obvious alternative - which as you say is hemp. There is a lot known about turning hemp into paper - even toilet paper - and they seem to be ignoring or oblivious to it. The problem with hemp is the same as the problem with hesperaloe will be - supply. Hemp paper is expensive because the supply of hemp stalks is limited, so it does not scale up to the capacity of wood pulp to create economy of scale price efficiencies.

Came to say the same, would mod you up if i had points.

Similar situation here. We were on United Celluar, then T Mobile bought them, then informed us the phone was too old to be supported.
So fine, we went to spectrum, purchased a new phone and plan there. The phone number was supposed to port to the new phone, but no.
It got lost in the shufffle between United Celluar and T Mobile. It took countless service calls, 3 in person visits to T Mobile and 2 to Spectrum and 16 days of being without a phone for them to get the new phone working with the correct number. We lost 16 days ofincome (gig work) because the phone did not work. I dont think having to do it on an app would help any.

is 108 F for those too lazy to do the math.

Exactly. Long ago i settled on .doc and .xls as standard. I know since the people opening it in Libre Office or whatever were smart enough to figure how to install that, they can figure out how to deal with a file format other than the default open format. The MS Office users, not so much.

That is putting it mildly. I was done with Windows at home 2 years before retirement, now i am done with it at work also,
Never made it to 11! Did not have hardware that was required and was not buying it. Its linux for me now.

Noise can make for poor sleep quality. I can definitely be woken by traffic noise sometimes. So possibly noise > poor quality sleep > influences Parkinsons progression?

We went to Spectrum 2 days ago to replace my sons oldish phone with a new phone and plan from Spectrum. His old plan was on T-Mobile. We are still waiting for the eSim and phone number to transfer to his new phone. Spectrum says it might take 72 hours. But it appears the problem is likely on T-Mobiles end. I wonder how many others are being held hostage to this situation?

No mod points today but +1 Insightfull

Sorry - inception - not conception. Although the brain fart makes the post a bit funnier maybe.

Age verification is something that has been missing from the 'internet' since its conception. A minor can browse porn or whatever with no age check. You may think that is fine, but you are a minority in that. An age verification should have been put in place with all OSes years ago. If there is not a simple API to report user age to the applications that need it, the bureacrats will ram something more invasive like an internet ID down our throats. And if the OS has no alternative way to supply the basic requirement - age verification - then we have no good argument to prevent something worse being mandated.

Just trying to warn you- it will happen if we dont head it off.

'Websites can implement their own age verification using state-issued ID checks and other measures'

You would prefer people to have state issued id checks ? This is exactly what we should be making unnecessary by providing an api that simply returns userAgeInYears - not an ID.

. 'You sound like the kind of person who would support the worst episodes of history: Nazism, Communism, and all state repression. How many times have you found yourself telling people "If you have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem!" ?'

Never said that. You sound more like a Nazi than i do. Seriously, it is reasonable to require age verification for lots of things. Maybe you are just an anarchist. Civilized societies generally have rules. We should keep those rules reasonable.I say an API returning user age is more desirable than requiring a state issued ID on your computer or person.