In Aws, you can pay for "premium support" and get help from them for issues like this. Can even pay, get help and then cancel the sub, it's like $50 for the month.
That's how the UI usually works, but there's never not been a registry setting that disables undesirable behavior like this in Windows. Hoping that continues to be the case. There's no OS that doesn't make me jump through hoops to get it in an acceptable state.
Its not the truth. Young people are more difficult to persuade online. Technical literacy is on average higher than previous generations (though still not universal), and teens seem to be practically immune to current forms of online advertising.
The "kids these days" trope is as old as time, and its no more true this time around.
> teens seem to be practically immune to current forms of online advertising.
I'm struggling to square that with teens forming long lines to buy an overpriced energy drink promoted by a couple of YouTubers and scalpers successfully getting over £100 for bottles.
I'm sure some of them are better at installing adblock software than their parents, are harder to convert for ecommerce because they need to borrow their parents' credit card and may be immune to online ads that are targeted at people very unlike them, but the idea that this generation is the first one immune to advertising and use Tiktok despite it's engagement metric hacking and follow influencers despite them being product shills is no more true than the "kids these days" meme.
I thought technical literacy was down? People are forgetting what filesystems are, aren't them?.
They might be aware of privacy, and less into buying random crap(Although that might be because they spend their money on the food instead of plastic junk, which harms your body AND your wallet), some reason the tech skills seem to be getting left behind.
The trendy thing now seems to be going back to vintage stuff.
I'm almost a bit jealous, if their lives are so amazing that whatever they're doing somehow seems better than focusing 100% on STEM, which was like, the ultimate life goal for a decade.
We now have a whole generation of teenagers that grew up with iPhones and I have seen exceptionally poor average technical ability.
When we were coming up you had to install modem drivers to get online. In windows 95... with no internet to check on a how-to.
I don’t think I can imagine anything more delusional than a parent, handing their kid an iPad so they will go away and thinking that they’re also preparing this kid for a career in computers.
I don’t see a strong correlation between older/legacy tech know-how and a broader notion of technical literacy.
I think it might be more helpful to look at this as information literacy, or at least roughly speaking a higher degree of “Internet smarts”.
Scanners and copiers are in that weird phase of product life where they’ve been mostly eliminated as core computing needs at home, but still see widespread business use since business will always be the long tail on fully digitizing.
I think it’d be prudent to be specific, because for whatever degree of literacy or smarts or whatever you call it is true about teens in the information environment, the technology through which they experience that environment inches closer and closer to pure magic from a layman’s perspective.
> Technical literacy is on average higher than previous generations (though still not universal).
This. is. total. horseshit.
I guarantee that you could randomly sample 1,000 people across America age 42-48 and 1,000 people age 15-21, put them in front of a multifuction machine (printer / scanner / copier) and the 15-21 year olds wouldn't have a fucking clue. Hell, Bloomberg ran an article about it.
And the reason this is important is because iOS and Android and tablets don't run the business world - laptops, MFPs, and Windows does.
My six year old isn’t. He falls for all of them. Grandma lets him her mobile phone and 15 minutes later he’s asking me to buy diamonds on a boring dinosaur game.
It seems to me that they're only "hard to persuade" because they are constantly bombarded with these mental viruses. There was (books/telegraph then?) radio, then TV, then internet, social media, scrolling social video... While it's true that each generation eventually develops some immunity to their entertainment afflictions, it does seem to be accelerating, and those not exposed as youth have less immunity (grandpa on facebook). It also seems to have continuing impact even if most become functioning members of society.
They might use your Google Pay to see if you have a credit card attached and use that to confirm you are over 18. This is one of the age verification methods YT does.
They could if they cared about actually verifying age. But they don’t.
In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in.
I’ve had kids under 13 create Google accounts that said they were 75 or whatever. Google doesn’t care. They just want you logged in and selling “targeted” ads.
I expect there will eventually be some sort of smoking class action suit that gets damages from emails knowing that accounts are 5 years old and not stopping it because of revenue. Of course I’ve been waiting a long time.
> In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in.
My Google account is almost 20 years old at this point, and they still ask me for credit card verification every time I want to see an "age-restricted" video in YT (and "age-restricted" topics apparently includes Verilog programming).
They know your age. They just want your creditcard and a confirmation that it exactly you ( else they need to trigger the profiling algorithm for a new person).
You may not have come across this yourself, but Google requries verified ID to watch age-restricted videos on Youtube in EU, EAA, Switzerland or UK. It just hasn't hit US in the same way. Louisiana set a dangerous precedent though, legally.
I noticed recently I couldn't use my 2FA key to get in to Google, but I never got a notification about it. Don't know when it was removed or why but was annoying getting back in (especially as text verification was a disabled option for some reason), and then setting it back up again.
A problem I had with MPV was that turning it up past 100% had very obvious distortion whereas VLC didn't have this when at the same volume so unfortunately, I am stuck with VLC on Linux unless I figure out whats wrong.
> The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
