You can avoid the online account requirement by using pro... although you still need internet without using some form of bypass

I feel the same, btrfs is such a core part of my system at this point it would be hard to go anywhere else

Look, I love FOSS and open platforms, to the point that I will only run proprietary software if it is sufficiently sandboxed AND there is no alternative. Unfortunately, hardware just isn't there right now. You basically cannot have a modern computing experience on fully open hardware. At some point you have to make a compromise with it, it's unfortunate but it's the world we live in. Typically that compromise is either all open software with closed hardware and firmware, or all open software and firmware, with incredibly old or restricted hardware (which is still closed). I have yet to see any solution that involves truly, fully open hardware and so you basically have to just draw an arbitrary line and say "this is good enough."

What would likely happen is VPN providers would be IP banned but people could still setup their own custom VPN solutions as that's hard to ban without banning corporate VPNs? Of course my fear is as this idea spreads VPNs and even Tor will become increasingly useless as all exits will be age gated and censored as well. This is something where technical work arounds will only work in the short term, laws like this are a slippery slope that we seem to be sliding down.

I love how mastodon is on here as if that is trivial to block. Guess you can block the official upstream distribution but blocking all instances would be a nightmare

You definitely can do this. Unless this is an extremely recent change or only done outside the US

The hand on the kids head is more terrifying than comforting, WTF

Sounds like a government

Classic Mac OS did, pre OS X aka pre 2001.

What is the ruby on rails supposed to be?...looks like ruby on rails with off colors to me, I can't place that logo. The rest of these are truly cursed tho

Linux remaps 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 when you attempt to use it as an address...does the same thing for :: remapping it to ::1

There was actually a really interesting idea I heard to have no time zones. And I actually think it could be a good idea. It'll never happen because people would need to re-learn time but if it was always the same time everywhere it would make scheduling and business so much easier. No one would need to convert between different zones or be late because of an incorrect conversion. The downside is that times which are conventionally morning or evening etc, would no longer would be so people would have to get used to time just being a construct for scheduling and not a representation of the natural day/night cycle...but it actually doesn't sound like a half bad idea.