By that same logic don’t hold Europe up as a good example of privacy either despite the gdpr.
Like are you actually that stupid? Californias age verification thing is annoying yes, but cali is still one of the prime example of digital privacy and consumer protections in the world.
No where’s perfect for fuck sake. You can’t just ignore all the good cause one thing that hasn’t even happened yet could possibly be bad.
In some cases it’s also a easy way out of an abusive house hold for high schooler.
My mother for example was beat basically daily and abused by her parents. My father putting a ring on her allowed him to become her legal guardian and remove her from her parents while allowing her to keep going to school and be protected from the state forcing her to go back home.
My mother was 16 my father was 18. They met when she was a freshmen and him a junior. Dates all though out high school.
Sometimes being a little flexible is the right call. It sucks that we don’t have better systems in place to deal with such things. But you work with in the system you have.
Funfact if something gets confused frequently it means you are infact the one in the wrong.
Language has one goal to convey meaning. If you have to explain pictographs then fundamentally they have failed to do their job or you have failed in using them correctly.
Federation is just the current gimmick fad of the foss world.
Everyone has a massive boner for it in everything even when it makes no fucking sense or only harms a project.
Is it cool? Yeah. Is it actually important? Not at fucking all. It’s at best a secondary feature that’s nice to have if it doesn’t harm the project.
Getting an actual product that’s safe, secure and most importantly functional. Is infinity more important then federation.
End to end encryption is kinda the same problem. Not EVERYTHING needs that level of security. You don’t and shouldn’t be talking about things that require that level of secure in apps that aren’t designed first and foremost for that level of safety.
And you can’t expect everything to be secure and user friendly. They go against each other frequently.
Again a nice thing to have, but functional usability comes first.
If you can find a mid range in that price range your living in bullshit land of nonsense and rainbow unicorn farts.
The ai bubble has ass fucked laptop pricing.
Even the second hand market is fucked.
Most 500-700 dollar laptops are the ewaste crap now. Anything below that price point is out of date Chromebooks at best.