It won't.
This is how I see 'giving up a little privacy' looking. Legitimate/compliant users will link their accounts, the government & Google both enhance their tracking, and the rest of us will abandon our existing accounts (if we have one) and skip out via VPN to a region without this requirement.
MyGovID/DigitalID (maybe as SSO) is my bet; a Google account linked to one of these two government services.
https://my.gov.au/en/about/help/mygov-website/sign-in-to-mygov
The name changes go back to Fallout 3 (at least, I can't recall if FO1 & FO2 had the same drama).
By the time of Fallout 4, names like Med-X (morphine), Rad-Away (iodine), Brawno (amphetamine? I can't remember) were well and truly bedded in, and suited the aesthetic. Why change it at that point? They've created names that suit the aesthetic better than the actual drug names.
I was in my mid/late 20s when this was all going down. I grey imported the MK reboot so I could play, had a copy of Manhunt, and others. The Fallout drug names were a result of the lack of 18+ rating and trying to comply with MA15.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/07/fallout-3-cant-get-a-rating-in-australia/
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/fallout-continues-from-ban-on-game-20080715-gdsma8.html
https://www.gameshub.com/news/features/australian-classification-law-video-games-2646457/
Kinda correct, it was a ratings issue. The problem was that we didn't have an 18+ rating for video games - if your game was deemed 18+ then you couldn't sell it here. Sex, depictions of drug use, and a couple of other things I can't remember right now are reasons for an instant 18+ rating.
Bethesda got told they couldn't sell it to anyone in Australia, so they compromised to drugs that didn't actually exist.
Left 4 Dead had something similar with the gore; if I remember correctly, L4D rating submission referred to the zombies as "monsters" (or something) and passed while L4D2 referred to the zombies as "infected people".. because they were now people, our ratings board ~~shit the bed~~ protected the children and gave it 18+ until they removed the bodies and gore. It was patched back in by Valve when we got an 18+ rating.
South Park: The Stick of Truth has/had some good censored scenes about this, graphically describing Randy being probed by an alien while the graphic of a koala sits in the background. These were patched out too I think (or I downloaded a mod).
We still have people like these lobbying against porn on Steam, but the overall situation got a lot better when we got an 18+ rating.
No crashes this evening!
Found the setting; Settings > Graphics > Limit Process CPU Usage (Experimental)
"Reserves 1 CPU core for background tasks (process affinity). Will reduce game performance."
Enabled and testing.
Yep! Similar freeze after some period of playing, haven't found a solution yet.
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D RAM: 32GB SSD
I'll update Proton version detail later today and report back on the suggested fixes in this thread.
Correct, it's a concern everywhere. I'll still lean towards stable countries as a host as the risk is lower.
It's a Lemmy instance, not the secret to world peace. Very few individuals on this planet would undergo any applied compliance pressure from a government agency just for others to continue using a self-hosted social media instance. Appealing in court and following the legal process? Sure, if you can get the time off work and can take the financial hit. Facing threats of raids, arrests, deportation, etc? That's magnitudes tougher.
It wouldn't be reasonable for us to expect John from down the road to prioritise keeping their Lemmy instance up over whatever is happening locally at the time that impacts them. It's easier for everyone, including potential hosts in unstable countries, to sign up to instances where the risk is lower.
Whoever wants to compel you for information will add financial/mental/physical pressure until you no longer wish to remain silent. That's true in democratic governments, stories/history tells us it's worse in autocratic ones.
You have the right to remain silent.. the question is whether you can with external pressure.
It's not a poll of Republicans, it's a poll of the US public and there's upticks in both camps.
To the rest of the world, it's not the United States of Republicans that are threatening Greenland and Canada, tearing up their own trade agreements, and shitting on allies. It's the United States of America.
Pointing at the other internal camp and implying 'It's not us, it's them' might help US residents sleep at night but it does nothing on the world stage.
Upvotes = relevance to topic and visibility. They don't necessarily mean that people agree with the topic.
Don't stress mate. We've all aged in the 20 years between 2019 and 2025.