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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • You are still removing others rights over a hypothetical. It doesn’t miss this, it directly focuses on the point of blame. Punish the parents for exposing their kids. Irresponsibility is not excuse for harm… If a parent leaves hardcore porn laying around for a child to find and harm occurs, don’t punish the uninvolved adult up the street.

    Another form of media doesn’t magically absolve parents from parental responsibility. Stop trying to play the “poor adults have no control over their kids!” Card.

    The “but think of the children!!!” trope is tired and over abused to remove rights and privacy. Move along.


  • How about less “control everyone else” and more “control your own damn kids”.

    My daughter didn’t get unsupervised access until she proved responsible enough to trust. I want to say around 13.

    Just because “I grew up with it unsupervised and it ruined me” doesn’t immediately equal “everyone will have this experience”. Sorry your parents didn’t understand what you were doing. Sorry you saw stuff that bothered you. Don’t punish everyone else for it.

    I’m far from a helicopter parent… Instead, my kid has come to me for help in resolving uncomfortable or problematic interactions. We’ve always been clear and honest about why we’ve asked her to avoid certain things. Even when it made us uncomfortable. Especially then.

    She’s 20 now. Most cheerful kid I’ve ever met. No idea how that happened directly, but I know I can trust her.











  • Ah sorry, I missed a specific there. I imagine that guy is trying to add it, but yeah not in there yet.

    From what I’ve seen, you might want to go pure hardware, with a portable dac or similar from someone in the HWA like Fiio. Many can be plugged directly into a Windows machine and perform the rendering and Bluetooth transmission directly, so you don’t have to mess with the crappy nonsense in the Windows Bluetooth stack.

    I’ve used some Fiio devices regularly over the years and been pretty happy with them, but your needs might vary. Currently I have a btr15.




  • Many years back , a friend was a manager of a game shop. They let me bring in badly scarred discs of movies and PS1/2 games, pay a very small fee (I want to say like $1/disc?) to get a brand new copy of the disc as replacement. Was a service that was available to resell shops apparently, though she mentioned that it also has a subscription aspect that likely placed it well out of reach of mortals.

    I’d even be fine with mildly increased cost on something like that for regular consumers, but alas no…