I’m surprised they allow VMs, I would’ve assumed given shit like this is generally even worse than the worst gaming anticheats when it comes to invasiveness, that VMs would’ve been blocked too.

No, the US needs to really heavily regulate AI before it destroys every line of work other than slinging a mop or working a skilled trade, and before it destroys everyone’s water supply and potentially the power grid itself.

In fact, if the EPA wasn’t gutted, AI companies would be in deep shit right now for how they’re ravaging the environment with their datacenters currently.

Oh shit, who would’ve guessed Meta tried to abuse their userbase and then sweep it under the rug… /sarcasm

Of course they’d do this, this is fully expected behavior for them.

Then I booted into Windows and in less than 10 minutes was fed up the whole OS. I realized I had to look up things just as often as I was on Linux, but in Linux it was because I didn’t know where it was, where as on Windows it was actively hidden from me and fighting me every step of the way. Windows is in no way easier, It’s just the struggle you’ve gotten so used to fighting with every single day that you’ve forgotten it exists.

I’m not even going to sugarcoat it, Windows treats you like you’re a freakin’ idiot, and that applies to all SKUs, although the Home SKU is the absolute worst of the bunch about treating its users like they’re too dumb for their own good.

Linux, and also BSD too for that matter, at least actually respects its users’ intelligence, because Windows sure as hell doesn’t.

Not to mention for-profit schools, at least in the US.

For anticheat.

Not for kernel-level stuff, shit like this requires a baremetal Windows install generally.

Kid: I wanna do art

You: here’s GIMP and Blender, have fun

What else is needed?

• They’re not necessarily needed in this context but would probably be more enjoyable especially for an actual kid, but I’d give them paints and crayons, markers, etc. and some paper and let them have at it, and possibly even join in myself, as well.

Or, you know, paper.

• That’s what desk/workspace scanning in the most extreme cases is meant to detect. This is why I really don’t like online schooling, because in the absolute worst case, your school will literally scan your place.

You know what would be a really good way to show if your students learned your course material? Let them show it with a practical test of some kind…

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Sebo stuff is also built really well too, or it better be given it’s commonly abused in commercial settings; think hotels and schools and the like, plus bypass designs like what Sebo typically uses mean sucking things up like coins won’t break your machine, vs. direct-air designs like what Kirby uses in which sucking up hard objects will break your machine.

Just buy a normal vacuum since those can still be used without web connectivity. Avoid anything made by TTI if you want your shit to last though. Also, avoid Kirby and Rainbow due to their scammy business model and extortionate pricing (seriously, quad figures for a vacuum is ridiculous even without the scammy business model).

That won’t be of much good should Tor or I2P get taken down too, and a major Tor exit node operator recently getting arrested doesn’t spell anything good on that end.

Matrix, also PeerSuite if you don’t wanna leave a paper trail as PeerSuite discards your sessions by default.

Good luck doing that at all inconspicuously considering you’d need to spin up disc processing plants or somehow get your hands on thousands of DVD-/+R blanks.

(I’m pretty sure if you tried to burn a DVD-Video disc with M-DISC media, that it wouldn’t be readable in most players).

There’s at two problems with that: VHS tapes and CEDs both degrade with each playback session, and CEDs even can get damaged or destroyed if you store them incorrectly (no wonder that format flopped and brought down RCA with it, lol…), and LDs have Laser Rot to deal with which is sadly becoming more common as some discs which were pressed in certain plants age.

VHS/Beta tapes, CEDs, and LDs if there’s any media that wasn’t released outside of those formats should be archived in some way ASAP due to the fragile nature of all three formats.

(and I say ‘fragile’ although LDs in theory should last indefinitely due to the lack of physical contact with that format vs. CEDs being read by a stylus and VHS and beta being read by a spinning head drum, but as I said, Laser Rot is an increasingly big problem with them)

*CEDs are literally video on vinyl, something that someone at RCA had to have been tripping on something to come up with, and that it’s a miracle that it even worked at all, given the inherent limitations of vinyl as a format.

Give Pollock crap all you want, but the guy popularized one of the most fun painting techniques ever, regardless of how you feel about his stuff.

Seriously, splatter painting is really fun to do even if there’s no real reason to it, and if anything, who says art has to have a reason behind it? Just straight-up having a play around throwing paint on something (in fact, there are entire places dedicated to that exact thing cropping up over the last few years) is as valid as drawing a scene out with an actual story behind it.