What is the reverse thing?

Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it’s apps?

Interesting. Here the license has gotten steadily harder to get. I’m sure there are connections: drivers schools, traffic authority, grift, etc, but the fact is that it’s a bit of a hurdle for many.

Prices for these types of exams are fixed, and not particularly expensive. You aren’t getting therapy, you are being screened for obvious things. Usually less than 30 min. That time does let you find the glaring stuff.

Ehem. Brother.

Where I live, in Europe, you CAN own firearms. Long guns pretty easily, as they are considered hunting/sporting guns, including semi-auto assault rifles, albeit, with 3 round magazines. Buying or even 3D printing larger ones is trivial, but it’s a felony to have one near the gun (same range/car/house…).

Long gun licenses require a medical, which includes a basic psych eval.

Handguns require a stricter medical, with a more detailed psych eval, and a course which includes gun safety, and legislation, among other things.

Except for some rare exceptions (jewelers, judges, and other people that can objectively be considered a target for assault or retaliation) you cannot carry, open or otherwise, except to go to a range, or hunting ground, and the gun and munitions must be separated; guns in a case in the trunk, with the magazine and munitions in the front of the car.

I don’t get why there isn’t a reasonable license for guns in the US. There is for cars, no?

And sadly, the highest percentage is within a family.

At the rate this is going, you may be saying this seriously soon

Yeah, but you don’t go as far as rejecting having your name added to the Trump Kennedy center.

I installed in my(old but very good) car a surprisingly nice sounding stereo unit, very inexpensive, like 30€.

The unit has no cassette or CD. It does have a micro Sd slot, two USB, one is charge only, for phones, and the other for storage. It has a remote. Physical buttons and a multi modal knob.

My phone has 512Gb of storage, and I almost never use streaming services.

I imagine your phone notifies you of texts, anyway, no?

My phone is jailbroken (rooted, Android).

Unless I discover a deeply hidden part of me, it’s highly unlikely that I’d get a grinder notification.

Anyway, you won’t get that notification I the ipod, but you will in your phone.

I’m actually restoring a Motorola Startac phone for my son, but there is no pretense of usability there, (except battery life), it’s simply for the cool factor.

BTW?

Doesn’t having WSL under the hood negate Linux’s inherent security?

I’d much rather have Windows shit containerized within Linux.

Winboat looks nice. I’m planning to play with it today. I’m also going to try distro box etc. Wish me a happy Virt-day. (yeah, yeah, I know where thee door is.)

True. That’s why I started the comment with “I”.

I was thinking about doing this, getting a storage constrained, apple constrained, obsolete piece of hardware, to do what the phone I already carry does better.

Oh, wait!

And often not even haptic.

Microsoft has historically shipped Alpha versions, followed by Betas, in paid software.

I’ve had several French cars, starting with an R4. That one was good, did exactly what it was designed to do. Next I had Talbot Horizon, an american (Chrysler) car with a very good diesel engine. Then I had a Peugeot 505, that had a good engine that was over complicated to the extreme, to the point that the oli overflow pipe litrelly crossed over from one side of the engine to the other, a truly brain dead design. Also the electrics in the back were literally routed under the rear light seals, so a seal failure meant that the electrical system shorted when it rained, the central locking and windows actuators had similar design flaws.

I also had a Xara, which had several secondary ecus, which had to be progressively eliminated , until I sent the thing to the scrap yard, out of despair, despite having a sound body and engine.

I’m in Europe, and I sometimes play the game of observing how many old cars (15+ years) I spot by nationality. Plenty of German, Spanish, Czech, Japanese and Korean. Very few Italian or French.

My daily driver now is a 26 year old Skoda. I do all maintenance. In nearly 500.000 km, it has had zero major failures. A few minor things, starter (Bosch), two window regulators, a CV joint, and the usual, belts, clutch, brake pads… Consumables. I love how logical the engine bay is.

Why didn’t they pour money on Jitsi?

European, mature, FOSS…

I fear grift is there somewhere.

Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results.