That full screen win 11 thing had me going for a while until I noticed the "opt out" button. When an OS starts to become obtrusive, I start to look for alternatives. The primary reason I use Windoze is because of gaming and most of that is through Steam. SO, now that the Steam Deck has pushed some great improvements in gaming on Linux, Linux MINT may be in my near future.
I already use open office on my home machine instead of the MS Office I have to use at work.
I think one thing a lot of people don't know now is that back then there was a WHOLE LOT of denial about the detrimental effects of smoking. I think this was mostly the tobacco industry's propaganda, but it worked. I remember talking with someone in the 90s that had some sort of cancer and had been a smoker most of his life. "No way to know if it was the cigarettes" that caused the cancer, he told me.
We are much, much more aware of the downsides of smoking now. The cat is out of the bag.
Blocking websites blocks speech. Speech is generally defined pretty broadly in the American court system and this seems pretty clear cut. If you can't censor music or stop people from wearing certain clothes then I think blocking websites looks a lot like censorship of speech that should be free.
IANAL, but I think (and hope) there would be legal challenges to a law like this.
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Just curious: How do these 2 stack up? In what ways are they better or worse than each other?