I think Youtube has learned its lesson from the Cheryl Sandberg era. They still have keywords that will get a person demonetized, but a person Gould even get their account terminated for comments with non-glowing reports mentioning #metoo, or #believe women.

Sandberg was pretty big on misandry and man shaming. Which YouTube has a lot of male users. And yeah, it generated some friction under her iron womanist fist.

There is so much AI content there now for all categories, some of the vids note they are AI compilations, so there may be errors. And there are weird hallucinations - I'm pretty certain they are posted without checking. So time to require noting it is AI.

So do I my friend. Depending on deeply you want to dive into the OS, you'll find that MacOS and Linux are brothers under the hood. MacOS is UNIX and Linux is UNIX-y.

I have similar issues going from Microsoft to Microsoft.

I agree - I have less trouble with my Linux installs than my Windows ones. Same goes for the people I've placed on Linux (Mint variety or the occasional Ubuntu Mate)

What kind of veteran tech person has a one off problem and it becomes universal? Not sayin, just sayin.

I've put lots of grandmas onto linux, and they are merrily rolling along, doing their email, web surfing, printing whatever they want to do. They haven't looked back.

But there's the thing somewhere in here, These grannies just do their thing sans issues, and it sounds like your setup is unusable on Linux, yet runs flawlessly on Windows.

If I might note, I have software that uses a lot of sound drivers. Windows 10 doesn't play all that well with sound drivers Windows 11 is no better in that regard. The company I got the software from has managed to isolate the drivers from Windows update, but before that it did all manner of weird things, like re-name all of them (taking the first driver, then renaming all of them that name, and adding a numerical suffix. Breaks the hell out of the software functioning, and required a scorched earth Revo uninstall.

I'm not going to claim that Windows doesn't work. I will claim that W10 has issues that are not fully resolved.

You are using your use case to declare that Linux doesn't work?

I have a legally punched from Microsoft Windows 11 Os that refuses to validate, Microsoft knows I bought it, I have the receipts, but it will not validate. Spent a lot of time with support, and they gave up, my usual experience of Windows support being worthless.

To use your logic, I can now authoritatively state that Windows does not work. (of course it does)

Anyhow, consider that millions use Linux, and do not share your problem.

Which version of Windows do you use?

Windows 7 10, or 11, Basic, Home, Pro, or Enterprise? I don't think that the "I don't know what to install!" argument works all that well.

We're all smart people here. If you are starting, install Mint flavored Ubuntu. If you find yourself needing something different, then you can change distros. Or you can even download the parts you need.

An example is some years back I had some tracking software to install that Mint didn't have components needed in its install.

In Windows, think of having Home, then finding you needed Pro.

It wasn't a big deal, I went to the software installer and found the components. Clicked on them, it took care of the dependencies. and installed them.

What is more, when you install software, it tells you what you need.

Fast forward to today, Mint has the parts in it already.

To be precise, it's the same operating system with some different options.

This is perhaps not all that different from Microsoft having different versions of its OS, think basic, home, pro, enterprise.

A person can roll their own version of Linux! It's the same OS, you'll just have to install some parts if you want to do something not already in your distro. And there, we depart from Microsoft - you get to pay if you want to go from home to pro.

But the advice of what to install is pretty much Mint. If you want something else - say no systemd, you're probably an advanced user, and already know what you are looking for.

Interesting - I'm not certain what is causing that. I've been upgrading successfully for several years now. Bummer at any rate.

I know - I'm lame for the "works for me" post, but I'm not trying to contradict you.

Oh, if I call a Leo, he is going to enforce the law.

Of course they do. If someone is having a party or similar event, everyone expects it to be recorded.

I fear you are confusing a normal event with what is essentially a surveillance tool that is really designed to record without anyone knowing.

And you can claim that I'm full of it, but you might find out differently at some point. Perhaps you don't remember when people wh thought5 like you were banned from recording in restaurants with Google glasses? https://uproxx.com/technology/.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sc...

So call me paranoid or obnoxious all you like. If you come into a restaurant or bar where I am at and I know you are recording, I'm going to the manager.

And even aside from the legalities, I spend a lot of money, and I tip at 100 percent, so they kind of like my business, so might not be swayed by your claim that I'm obnoxious, indeed, the Google Glass people were called glassholes because they held your attitude. Got find a place where people want to be recorded.

This is probably going make you go Reeeee, but I hold a lot of Zoom meetings. In keeping with the law, I go through before the meeting and get permission from every attendee to record the meeting. I can get it in writing from board members before the meetings, but when we have guests, they must be asked and give consent. This has been the method given via legal counsel.

Unless I give consent, that is breaking the law. Is that such a difficult thing to understand?

https://recordinglaw.com/party... Yeah, it varies by state, but it seems some folks have no respect.

This idea that you have the right to do anything you wish, anywhere you wish is the same mentality that caused bars and restraints to ban families with children. Many of these families have no respect for anyone else, their little preciouses run around, screaming and yelling and annoying the hell out of other patrons. They make a mess out of the place, and according to some waitstaff I know, don't tip or not well.

Then they get angry because the places ban their preciouses.

The problem that is incredibly easy to understand, is that outside of that family, patrons are there for a nice relaxing time. So if the restaurant continues allowing the disruptive people to disrupt everyone else's time, everyone else finds it a good idea to nosh elsewhere. Then the place goes out of business.

There are places that cater to people with children, obnoxious or not. Maybe you can find a place where every wants recorded to put online. Sounds like the people who thought "The Truman Show" was a great idea and want that in their life.

My point is that if I catch you recording on my property without my permission, you will be visited by officer friendly for trespassing.

That's just the nice outcome. there are groups that often meeting in little restaurants to discuss plans, some oof which may be illegal. If they catch you recording them, you would probably wish officer friendly was there.

Your need to post videos on TikTok does not supered my right to not show up there when it is on my property.

We know where some of those places are - I triple dog dare ya to go in with a recorder. Do it, and you will see that you. are not exempt from what you believe is my weird world.

Going to go in and record some made men with your non weird excuse, your concept that you can record anything you want, anywhere you want?

Anyhow - take it up with the law. It varies state by state, but you want to test your theory? https://recordinglaw.com/party...

Long and short of it is I do not consent to having my image or voice recorded in any private space.

Enough people have come out with very valid reasons why this can end up with legal problems for the wearer that haven't gone away. Remembering the Glasshole days, you can record as you wish in public, but if you record on private property without permission, you'll likely get charged with trespassing.

An example is at gyms, where there is a new "thing" of some women wearing very revealing clothing, recording themselves doing "exercising, many of which consist of her pointing her vulva or buttocks towards the camera, and if a guy even glances at her or looks in her direction, she's hit gold by having not only a thirst trap for TikTok, but she can play the always strange combo victim/desirability validation. We'll just have to disregard that she is staring at men to figure out who she is the victim of. A lot of gyms have banned the practice now, mainly because a lot of men have stopped going, and started working out at home in order to avoid the harassment. And gyms need the money - the majority of their customers who happen to be men, not thirst trappers. Do your legging covered kegals at home sister!

Point is, that gym is on private property. And thirst trappers are just a passive aggressive form of bully. And no doubt they will try to incorporate this into their BS.

Same with bars, and restaurants. Sometimes this can result in putting the glasshole rev2 person in danger too. Sometimes business is conducted, sometimes affairs are conducted. Sometimes people who are being recorded might have a violent reaction to someone surveilling them.

And most of the time, we just don't want to be recorded in those places. If the wife and I go out to dinner, and we talk about our day, sometimes things are said that we don't want posted online. Innocent enough stuff "Oh, that godamn Bob was up to his same crap today, he's incompetent." Normal conversations, and some glasshouse rev2 weaponizing them.

And 2 plus 2 = 5 for large values of 2.

And I stand 100 percent behind your lack of clarity. As a wise man once told me, if you use 100 percent , in my world that is the subset of everything, and if it is 100 percent of everything past a certain date, that's a different subset, not everything forever. Take telling or don't.

What is more, there is a reason for that assumption. There have in the past been mandatory retrofits on 100 percent of road going vehicles here in the hinterlands. Turn signals, brake lights on motorized vehicles, even our Amish have had to put lights on their buggies.

And you can make the judgement if my Jeep is automatically connected to the internet or not. It uses what is called Uconnect. Which connects via your smartphone if you wish it to do so. Otherwise, it just connects with Sirius. If you pay for a subscription.

And in my Jeep, built long after 2018 - where's the Ecall button on present day Jeeps? I've had 3 since 2018, and I can't find it.

But back to the Uconnect, I do like it. It turns the vehicle into a moving iPhone. Not with everything, but phone and text, accessed via Siri , mapping routes in real time using Siri and other selected items on the Jeep screen, while the bluetooth or USB connected phone still functions with everything on it. The iPhone itself has crash detection, and can call emergency services automatically even if you are disabled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Uconnect also connects to Android, and I assume it has similar features. I mean, all that is not a button you press on the dashboard - if you still can, but if you don't want to connect your iPhone or android, you don't have to.

Oh - and your crash detection follows you with your iPhone, which is pretty nice.