Israel is not in Latin America, last time I checked.
Huh? I don't use a VPN unless I want to watch geoblocked content, and adblocking works just fine without.
Free access to "radical" ideas doesn't bode well with conservative governments.
Only if they are unable to care for themselves and do not qualify for subsidies/grants.
Zero is the norm in Germany, and I appreciate it that way. Other than providing housing until I moved out at 19 shortly after finishing high school, I got no monetary support from family.
Plenty of good advice, assistance with where and how to apply for grants, actual help on how to conduct research during uni, helping carry stuff when I moved houses, helping to draft my first cv and cover letters, and moral support and whatnot, sure.
But money? Other than maybe sending me 200 Euro for my birthday or ordering pizza when I visited, nothing, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Nothing prepares people more for adulthood than being responsible, and at the same time not feeling you have to pay back.
I've just switched from Windows 10 to Windows 10 IoT LTSC (long term support channel), designed for IoT means there's no AI garbage, game bar and any other crap installed, and I get updates until 2032.
Quite happy with it, after a disastrous experience with Windows 11 that essentially killed my system.
And no, I can't switch to Linux due to company requirements. I work in finance and some of the banks we use operate by hardware tokens that only have Windows drivers.
That problem didn't start by voting Trump, he should have been on track to retirement before his first term. You can blame the orange overlord for many things, but not for shit planning.
The requirement exists unless the company is under legal obligation to retain something. I had one case where I requested a GDPR data dump followed by a full deletion, and apparently whoever executed the request deleted first and then processed the dump, so I was able to see that what they did was change my email address from username@mail.tld to username#mail.tld@company.tld - meaning that login attempts, password resets etc. would clearly fail, and a further attempt to request my data revolving around my email address would be unsuccessful, but ultimately all my data was still accessible somewhere. Whether they'd then proceed to delete it after the retention period, who knows. I intended to follow up but forgot...
There's a browser addon called Meta Random Search which sends your queries randomly through google, bing, ddg, yahoo and other search engines so that nobody has a full history. Paired with a user agent switcher (personally using Chameleon on Firefox) with a high frequency of change (1 min or so) and disabled browser telemetry it might throw them off already even without poisoning results. Especially since every query consumes natural resources I'm not really a fan of this approach.
I thought it's the original batmobile from the 90s.
Thief: The Dark Project
I still keep playing it with all the gfx patches, it's a masterpiece. 2 and 3 are not bad either, but the original is unmatched. Love the user generated mods as well.
Anything that restricts using an item I purchased is basically malware and must be removed. If I can't find DRM-free alternatives of a book I want to read, I'll rather pirate it than spend money on something the publisher/platform can recall or even change after I purchased it.