Other people have already given the answers I’d have said, so I’ll say this:

When you do collect enough of the “banned” books to warrant a torrent, create one and share it widely so kids can find em. Something that mentions “banned books” so it’ll be easily findable if someone searches that.

That said: they’re not really banned in the like actual sense of the word. They’re not banned from being sold, nor bought, nor read, nor owned, and afaik nobody is raiding publishers with rifles and making mass burn pits of books. They’re banned from most schools and some public libraries. The public libraries I agree is egregious but tbf, most of the ones I looked into would have been banned in my school too, and not because “gay” but for stuff like the blowjob scene in a graphic novel, if that scene, which I’ve been corrected on multiple times, (it wasn’t technically a blowjob it was “strap on play,” but) “graphic depictions of strap on play” between straight couples would be similarly banned. Most of the other “banned” ones with no pictures say some naughty words, and IMO that’s a piss poor reason to ban something, but it is consistent that whether the person saying “fuck” is gay or straight it’s going to be banned for the word “fuck.” Hell back in my day they wanted to ban To Kill A Mockingbird because it says the N-word (and that btw was the progressives not the conservatives, pearl clutching at supposed racism despite that literally being an anti-racist book.)

Again, not saying I agree with banning books in schools, fuck it if they want they should have copies of 50 Shits of Grey in elementary schools imo, I’m a fan of disseminating information, but it is being unilaterally enforced and “straight profanity” isn’t allowed either.

Well shit, nevermind!

I think your “council estate” is our “section 08,” govt provided shitty housing projects?

I know a couple younger dudes named Ira (35yo or less). Still sorta popular among Jewish circles, and not even both of the Iras I know are of Jewish origin so it seems others still use it too.

Thurl (as in Ravenscroft.)

Good. I don’t trust them dern robuts.

I didn’t know this had a show, I found a random VHS of The Lexx movie at a thrift store and watched that though, odd movie, but I keep watching it. I guess I need to download the show now!

As of audacity 3.0.3 (or was it 3.1.3? Shit it’s been a while…) it includes telemetry from the russian company that bought it. It was forked to oblivion and Tenacity is the best replacement fork.

no u

You HAVE to be trolling lol.

Just in case you’re actually unaware and not just bullshitting,

Right ok… But what’s on the other PC for for an OS? And why should we bother having another one on a different OS assuming we can afford extra hardware?

Came off snarky, thus rude, and is why I returned it in kind. If you weren’t trying to be rude and it came off that way by mistake, my bad, but it definitely seemed intentionally and unnecessarily snarky.

Well since this thread is about computers unable to run windows 11 due to HW restrictions, meaning they’ll be insecure when the EOL is reached, the point would be “to keep your personal computing secure.” If you’re upgrading to w11, why are we even talking about w10 EOL? Just upgrade then, what’s the problem?

Furthermore, if your company provides a computer at all, you may wish to have your personal computing done on something without their monitoring programs installed. Idk about you but my work doesn’t need to know I googled “boobies” at 10pm on tuesday, or whatever.

Finally, because while upgrading to a computer that can run w11 is costly, buying a used computer off a friend who is upgrading is much cheaper, linux being much less resource intensive and able to run securely and receive critical security updates on cheaper, older hardware can be beneficial to someone who can’t upgrade to w11 due to cost, or who is being forced by their workplace into using w10 (or even w11 with company spyware, really.)

Did I hold your hand well enough this time or are you still confused and being rude about it? Sure, maybe YOU don’t care about security, and in that case you shouldn’t, just run XP who cares, but for those that do it is an option.

Idk my sole interaction is through these headlines lol, I don’t have steam, and haven’t really even played anything since like RDR2 (well, not counting my GBC, I play with that all the time, currently playing Earthworm Jim (GB).)

I thought we were talking about linux being involved, so that. Why? Because of the whole “not receiving security updates” thing w10 will be doing, y’know the whole thing this thread is about, did I have a stroke?

Well, get good I guess.

Or that, but I’m told some things don’t play well in VMs like arcane peripherals.

Does this have anything to do with the other Steam related headline I read in a post earlier: " Games now have to disclose kernel level anticheat on steam?"

Honestly I figure “work computers” are often overlooked because many companies force windows for their spying “productivity monitoring” apps.

That said, there’s always “having a work computer and a separate secure personal computer.” The linux machine doesn’t even have to be particularly powerful, it could be whatever old used machine (w/o nvidia) you can get your hands on.

If whatever programs you need don’t require internet access and you aren’t at risk of evil maid attacks then it hardly matters if win10 isn’t secure. It definitely isn’t ideal, but if the options are:

A) Do all your personal stuff on linux and only boot w10 when you have to, offline.

B) Only have w10 and run hope.exe for security.

I’d choose A.

I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley. People can be creeped out by things that don’t creep you out, you know.

And what, you like junk mail that is 100% just a waste of resources in a world where we’re hurdling towards total climate annihilation? It could have just as easily been an email everyone ignored rather than a mailer everyone ignored.

Well, being read rather than said, I’d argue the tone is inferred by the reader.

And in any case, as a privacy focused individual, I’m not exactly crazy about either. I’m also not crazy about junk mail, so junk mail that implies it’s watching me in any form, I double don’t like. Y’all killing trees for this fucking bullshit?! No thanks.