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Sorry I meant the Mastodon servers located in the EU and UK, not Mastodon as a whole.

Actually the EU has mandated "proper" age verification for pornographic sites in order to protect the children.

So it wouldn't surprise me if it will extend eventually too other sites too.

I would not surprise me if eventualy Mastodon servers will have to do the same especially the Mastodon servers located in the EU and UK.

Considering that the Dutch were below average before the second world war, I think your hypothesis is wrong. I think they were just compensating for being tiny during that time.

On a more serious note, I just think the Dutch had zero scruples (inventors of modern capitalism and all).

They just didn't care how many people they screwed over aslong as they could get one more Gulden in their pocket.

As much as I want to joke that it is the year of the Linux desktop, I think it is mostly because the younger you are the less likely you are to have a pc (so Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD for the dozens of you).

As far as I can see most of the time people use their phone for everything and only touch a pc for work or if they have a hobby that requires the use of a pc (gaming, digital art, music, programming, etc...).

Not that is nescessarily a problem if you know what you are getting into and willing too make the sacrifices to own such building.

I just hear about a lot of people that buy a 17th or 18th century farm or house for example and find out the are not even allowed to change to double pane glass because of it's classification as monument.

The reason they are "cheap" to buy is all the maintenance cost indeed.

But not only that, they are also under what we call monumenten zorg in the netherlands, basically making it near impossible to make any big changes to the building. So for example you are not replace the original windows for ones with double glazing.

Owning a castle or any really old building in Europe sound more appealing than it really is.

The only thing it will do is turn off potential users because they either feel attacked for using a perfectly useable os or they do want want to be associated with the onmine culture around the os.

Absolutely a possibility

I am talking for handhelds which are treated as consoles so the underlying os or gui makes no difference. Unless it stops you from playing the game you like.

No one should tell you to leave an os if it works for you.

You are asuming they do physical work and aren't just white collar.

I am more thinking of the Valorant, League, Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc... players. Which are a majority of pc gamers.