Ubuntu Touch... I was so excited about it that I bought one of the phones with it preloaded. I even used it as my sole daily driver for months, until I learned that I was not receiving all calls made to me. Even after that I kept hoping it would keep developing so that I could pick it up again one day. But then Canonical abandoned it instead. That's when they became as good as dead to me.
Sadly, KDE and Gnome each spent a lot of time on the same things. Plasma Mobile has ate more time that could have went into making Plasma a better desktop.
That's a strange argument. Open source software including Plasma Mobile is developed by volunteers who choose to spend their time on a given project. I am quite happy with the pace of Plasma Desktop and the progress made in the past 3 years on its 6th iteration.
As a KDE developer I can say that there are times that we have done things differently or taken the long road because we wanted to support Plasma Mobile.
It would have just been better to continue doing the desktop specific things and let the Plasma Mobile enthusiasts make those changes.
It's the internet. There are no borders and there is no mandate to follow any consensus. Stores may not want to sell cigarettes to children, but e-stores safely hosted in some remote country do want to sell them nicotine pouches and vapes. With a protocol that makes age information always available to websites they could hide their intentions from adults while actively targeting children.
IMO you could have some mechanism by which websites could have content certified as child-safe if they agree to adhere to certain standards. (And thereby make them accessible to child-safe devices, which would otherwise default to blocking content which doesn't bear such a certificate.) Adult devices would not implement those restrictions and would therefore be unaffected.
I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over a hundred), that turn up videos that have been public for over a decade often without a single view. It's so fascinating to see the random things people have uploaded.
It's stupid that my YT front page is simply empty, because "Your watch history is off", when it could simply be filled with a random selection of videos.
Instead of "free communication" I would say "free large public social media", because without going all DPRK, there's no stopping people from using the internet, a means of free communication.
One day they'll fly to a drone factory, eliminate all the personnel, then start gently shooting at the machinery to create more weaponized drones and then it's all over before you know it!
Flawless on AMD? Absolutely not. 2-3 years ago there used to be a amdgpu bug that froze my entire laptop randomly with no recourse beyond the 4 second power button press. After that was fixed, it sometimes got stuck on shutdown. Now it doesn't do that randomly anymore, but yet all it takes to break it, is to turn off the power to my external monitor (or the monitor powering off by itself to save energy) or unplugging it, after which it can no longer be used without rebooting and then sometimes it gets stuck on shutdown.
Clarification: The AMD iGPU driver (or Chrome) on Ubuntu 24.04 has bugs on your hardware. You could try a newer and different distro (just using a live-USB) to see if that has been fixed.
If I remember right, a problem with this is that you need to get those proofs by submitting your id or similar, you only get a limited amount of proofs at a time, they expire in maybe a few months, and you can only get them using a government specific app that is only for "secure" devices. Instead of being tracked by the site you're being tracked by the government, you now need a Google Android phone in order to browse adult sites on your PC, and depending on your habits you may need to re-show your id potentially multiple times a day unless you opt to being tracked by the sites instead.
It really should be just once that you need to show your id and then you should be able to generate as many proofs as you need whenever you need on any computer device, but they have an obsession on making very sure that it cannot be circumvented, as if it was insanely important.
