That's just absolute horseshit and shows you have rose coloured glasses on. Those of us with functioning memories actually remember that you basically never upgraded Windows. You bought a new computer to run the new windows. Things only changed with Windows 7, and that only changed because Vista was so fucking horribly bloated that it was many years before it even ran smoothly on the hardware of the day leading to many people having quite new computers already when Windows 7 was released.

The cap out of network was established to force the network companies to become sort of generic open infrastructure companies rather than being able to establish and abuse a monopoly position or by strengthening one company over another by negotiating different rates.

I know what you're saying, and yeah fees should be capped, but it made sense for its purpose.

One of the big things that separates bad social media from not bad (I dare not use the term good), is the content algorithms. Youtube never managed to turn the site into a shitshow they were aiming for, thanks largely to shorts being ignorable. But I have seen people get stuck doomscrolling Youtube shorts as well.

Ideally we'd have a mandatory content limiter. If minors were limited to seeing 20 videos a day the "TikTok", "Shorts" and "Reels" bullshit from these social media sites would end overnight.

I wasn't here as a child, I was out playing with my friends. Nice try though, but in an attempt to sound clever all you achieved was posting a nice little self-own.

And that's before you consider that TikTok and Slashdot are not remotely similar in their impact on people. If anything the way the morons are running this site is actively attempting to drive people away (seriously, go open a private browsing sessions and hit the sign-up button, see how far you get). Quite the opposite from the "We'll do everything to suck you in and design the site with adictive algorithms to make you stay."

Honestly the amount of thought you applied to your post I wonder if it wasn't Slashdot you wasted your childhood on, but rather Facebook. You're displaying signs of brainrot.

Typically or not these were THE DIRECT RESULT of hacks into providers systems. It was widely reported that Booking.com was compromised and within 2 months, 3 other European based booking providers (not sure if those 3 others had international impact).

Nothing says "physical media really is useless" than applying it to a small easily accessible code base that can be replicated by a simple command, and also making the physical media available as a "limited run" of 1000 items, further emphasising that it is completely pointless for any pratical purpose and only suitable for collecting.

Good work Microsoft, nice attempt at a jab, but you've made Sony's point for them. *facepalm*.

Even a piece of shit can do something you agree with. No one is saying that an action now wipes the sins of the past. But likewise letting the entire past overshadow any positive action is not just stupid, it's outright dangerous.

What's your endgame here? Forever declare anything Microsoft do = bad? Because if that's the result it'll have a nice negative feedback effect. How long before Microsoft says "Well since we can't do anything good, why not lean fully into our evil past, fuck the users, they clearly don't care to be supported by us in any way."

I mean is it flamebait to point out what happens in the world? https://truthsocial.com/@realD...

No... You were. You even quoted me quoting you where you were comparing it. Try and read your own post.

Oh man. This will come as a huge shock to Google Sweden AB, based in Stockholm.

The EU is not America. There's a reason we for example have several orders of magnitude more e-bikes while at the same time having significantly lower rates of lithium battery fires. For the most part every idiot doesn't just throw random Chinesium chemistry batteries into their devices. The first party battery market is huge in Europe.

At no point did the EU technical regulation ever propose anything confusing or incompatible. Quite the opposite, they stipulated that compliant products must all negotiate using the same USB-PD mechanism.

Your actual complaint is shitty products not following the regulations. Just how are regulations supposed to fix that?

No that would be truly dumb. Custom battery sizes are credited as a major factor in scale down of electronics. There's a reason even the EU stopped short of requiring *all* batteries to be replaceable and only stipulated the requirement for certain devices with a certain degree of replaceability.

And yet the actual use drops. It turns out posting speed limits doesn't cause everyone to become a slow driver either, but it does create a measurable effect in society. A few fuckers will always find workarounds. Let them, some people are a lost cause.

They don't need to. Not every kid needs saving.

Apparently that fantasy has resulted in a 30% reduction in social media use among kids. That is by any measure a roaring success. It could be better, but at 30% the law was already well worthwhile. Such a significant portion of a population is more than enough to affect a demographic wide behavioural change.

Kids hell bent on their own destruction will of course continue to do what they do, but many of them are already seeing the light and just really couldn't be fucked bypassing something just to see some stupid wanker do some stupid wank on TikTok, etc.

You're so close to understanding the problem. Just give it a little more of a think, you'll get there in a second.

If you're having trouble flip the premise on its head and ask yourself why people aren't in the street, then ask yourself what people would do if they aren't on social media, and that'll let you know why the premise of your post that this will have a negative affect on people is bullshit.

By the way we've already seen this with mobile phone bans. Kids aren't just going to sit there drooling when you take their phones or social media away. It turns out they do actually find other ways to interact.