Exactly. Slowly the screws will be tightened, saying "oh the age gates are too loose" and will need ID verification, step by step.

How the hell are you managing that. On a simple micro level I can figure it out, but as a whole over the entire house? o.0

Home Assistant with adaptive lighting.

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

I was thinking the same thing. Would be interesting to see their usage over timezones.

I'm getting really tired of people trying to use "for the children" to be able to identify every user and remove anonymity from the internet.

There's no identification in this bill. You know what makes me angrier than age verification requirements? People complaining about age verification requirements that don't exist.

I'm a big believer in the slippery slope, once the smallest hurdle is passed, it's a small thing to say "Oh anyone can lie, so now we need them to ensure it's true."

Wonderful writing. As someone who is in exactly the same boat (as I assume a lot of us here are), being called on for family tech support for around 30 years now, I too am starting to reconsider recommending windows.

My son is getting to the age where is taking an interest in computers(not just games) so I think I will be starting him off on a linux box.

Seconded. My 9 year old son has in his life worked with Android and Debian at home, and iPad at school. There is 1 game I could not get to run under wine (beltmatic), but apart from that everything works. I was a bit scared about his school stuff (from Die Keure) but it just does its thing. He recently installed Planet crafter, a game I had never heard of or checked out, and it was a non event. Lego, basic programming, ...

He went to a friend, doing networked minecraft on friends windows laptop. Son then took our laptop as he did not like Windows, and I think he accidentally convinced that whole family to migrate to KDE on Debian, just by showing them how reliably boring it is. I was smiling at that one, to be honest.

Oh that Live Kaiwa looks interesting, I might try it out this weekend with my wife and son (native Japanese). Anything to help my admittedly horrible Japanese

Shoot me an email (diasks2 at gmail.com) and I’ll whitelist your email for some free usage credits. Would love to get feedback.

Done :)

Well there goes my weekend. Thanks!

Careful, I enjoyed this bonus (being in Japan and not being able to keep up with the ads)... so much so, that I started ignoring the Japanese. Including my wife. You can imagine how well that went.

Oh I'm looking forward to playing with this one. But as a solo-dev-on-the-side I really wish Anthropic would create another plan, I'll happily pay for a pro-double to give me twice the usage. The $100 package is a bit brutal when converted to Yen, when I'm using it for side projects :s

I'm against needing to give my personal ID to use a simple service. Especially when it's already been leaked once.

No thanks, there are other services I can use.