Prescription medications sometimes do harm. Even so, many drugs prevent far more premature deaths than they cause. That's why we have national drug regulators: to evaluate evidence as to whether each new drug is safer on the whole than leaving the condition untreated.
Imagine if Vizio were to become the first pro-consumer TV.
The MPA member movie studios would probably withdraw their respective streaming services from Vizio's platform on grounds that a user-modifiable free operating system fails to satisfy the "compliance and robustness" rules of whatever digital restrictions management protocol they use.
Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it.
First, the user needs to know that "a cheap little computer" exists and can be connected to a TV. Walmart and Best Buy haven't been doing a good job of marketing these to the public. Second, the user needs the spare time to learn to administer yet another computer. Third, the user needs to be satisfied with some services limiting streams to 480p because a desktop computer running Linux and Firefox has a low "integrity level" in Widevine.
Very few ISPs intentionally block inbound TCP.
One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)
IPv6-only [...] site is inaccessible to users stuck on legacy networks
One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.
It'll help exactly as much as Unreal experience helps if you apply at a Godot shop.
In case your answer is "Well there aren't many Godot shops", then why is that?
What you're claiming is that somehow there's an international cross party conspiracy between American government agencies, American religious fundies and some much more left wing governments in Australia, France and the UK, and somehow no one has blabbed.
There's no organized conspiracy as much as a less-formal worldwide shift in the Overton window toward more surveillance and less tolerance of erotica and nontraditional gender expression. Left-wing governments in other countries are just as eager to surveil their citizens. Look at how the People's Republic of China has expanded criminal background checks into a numeric "social credit score." The UK has its own share of conservatism; just look at Brexit and the "TERF Island" movement. And as long as global economies depend on hydrocarbon fuel from the Middle East, Salafis (Arabic for "reactionaries") will continue to have a platform.
Who is "them"?
Anonymous Coward mentioned two categories of "them". In case you don't see AC comments, I'll rephrase:
1. Government agencies interested in performing the same sort of predictive policing that led to Terrorism Information Awareness of the early 2000s.
2. The sort of religious conservatives who ultimately want sex and violence purged from even media intended for grown-ups, as we saw with Collective Shout pressuring payment processors to pressure itch.io to remove erotic works.
What did you get in return for giving up basically all of your genitals by getting them cut off?
Reduced mental workload in having to put on a show of meeting society's behavior expectations for one's assigned gender all the time.
How is Unreal Engine noticeably superior to Godot in a way that noticeably affects a beginner learning video game development for the first time?
Why not just use Unreal Engine?
Unreal Engine is proprietary software with a free replacement that is adequate for beginners. That's why.
Telcos have offered for ages SIM with plans with a safe site firewall option
Wider deployment of TLS over the past 12 years, wider use of too-big-to-fail CDNs for DDoS mitigation (such as Cloudflare), and DNS over HTTPS have made firewalls operated by the ISP less effective by hiding from the ISP what websites are being visited.
you insensitive clod!
When has Claude, or Gemini or ChatGPT for that matter, ever been sensitive?
Then perhaps what Google has failed to add on YouTube is a checkbox to exclude videos with only auto-generated captions from search results and recommendations.
Debian releases every two years, and they have a sane release cycle which freezes software versions some months before release.
So basically the same thing that Ubuntu's two-year "LTS" track does. Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" is feeling fairly old at the moment. Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" was released a week ago to users on the semiannual "interim" track, and it'll be offered to LTS users come the first point release about three months from now. Drinkypoo has a point, however, that Debian has no direct counterpart to Ubuntu's interim track.
There's absolutely nothing here you can't replace in less than 60 minutes with some cheap ass 5 Euro/Month virtual host, setup and config included.
When you self-hosted Git and an issue tracker, how did you take care of these?
1. Last I checked on DigitalOcean's website, a VPS in that price range would have 1 GB of RAM. And last I checked, MariaDB took 300 MB of that by itself. How do you fit Linux + front end web server + MariaDB + Forgejo into 1 GB of RAM?
2. People need to sign up again to report bugs or contribute patches. Signing up is itself a friction, not to mention that your VPS is probably not already trusted by the major email providers. This means one-time codes for signup confirmation and password reset are likely to end up in the user's spam folder at best, if not just dropped without notification.
The decision doesn't have to be logical; it was unanimous.
