Internet monitoring should fall to the parents. When the government parents, they parent everyone and abuse their power.

There are tons of products to prevent access to apps and websites. If all else pass a law so users opt-in to restricted internet access.

I bought one of those $5 for the entire year accounts off some shady website.

It lasted for 5 years.

Okay. That makes sense.

I have a pair Sennheiser HD 25.

I just took the NPR test suggested by another poster. I did horribly.

Thank you for your input. I will not be updating to Flac.

I have Sennheiser HD 25 I bought 15 years ago. I play music through my Pixel 5a with a headphone jack and my iMac. I have no idea if this is good enough for the test but I will try it anyway.

I did the NPR test.

I’m on my iMac and I chose 128 kbps four times… I chose 320 kbps once and Uncompressed WAV once.

I did so horribly. Lol.

This puts either my hearing limits or the limit of my tech. If I don’t get better equipment, I have my answer forever.

This is truly great. Thank you for this suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion but it would drive me nuts either to convert all my music or to have several different files. Getting MP3s is easier.

I have Sennheiser HD 25 I bought 15 years ago. I play music through my Pixel 5a with a headphone jack and my iMac.

Is this good enough to be able to tell? I have no idea what devices have a good DAC or not.

Thank you for your input.

My concerns with space mostly deals with my cell phone but you make a lot of great point of being able to convert Flac for any use case. Thank you for your input.

That makes sense. Thanks.

I keep getting advice of Flac > MP3 320 kbs.

I can’t tell the difference to tell you the truth. Is it really worth it for audiophiles considering how much more space Flac files takes up?

Tip to any readers that don’t know, you can get search results from a specific website adding site: followed by the domain.

For example, if you want to limit the results to reddit.com and you want to search for fuck spez:

fuck spez site:reddit.com

This also works with subreddits. If you want to look for vince in the r/nba subreddit:

vince site:reddit.com/r/nba

I am pretty sure this works with subdomains too, I just can’t think of any examples off the top of my head that would be useful.

I tested this with Google, Duckduckgo, and Bing. It works for all of them.

Yeah. You have great points. A lot easier to wipe a device that is actively connected. Laptops don’t usually have that luxury. It is a lot easier to take apart a laptop. It is easier to plug in a USB HID for brute forcing or to constantly move a pointer to prevent it from going to sleep.

I guess that’s the feeling in my gut.

Thank you for your input.

And this is how it should be with all monetary punishments.

But nowadays, a lot of people use the same credentials on the phone just as well, and with everything asking to install their app, I’m not sure the attack surface really is smaller anymore. So, if you’re in this scenario, I agree with you that you may not be sacrificing much by having 2FA on desktop.

This makes sense and puts holes in my statement. I also feel like more people are willing to install shady stuff on their phones than their desktop now. I have no sources for this though.

The way I looked at it, it’s no different than having a mobile device with a password manager on it, because if someone steals your mobile device, they have access to everything as well. So the two-factor authentication apps shouldn’t be on desktop argument never made sense to me, mobile is the same way.

That is true. And more phones are stolen now than computers. Computers can have the same security and encryption if properly configured.

Even though you make a logical point, something in my gut doesn’t feel right.

I did more research and you are correct.

15 U.S. Code § 52 - Dissemination of false advertisements - (a) Unlawfulness - It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, or corporation to disseminate, or cause to be disseminated, any false advertisement—.

Source:law.cornel.edu

Okay. Good.

The term “false advertisement” means an advertisement, other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect; and in determining whether any advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account (among other things) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual.

Source:law.cornel.edu

Good. Good.

if such violation is with intent to defraud or mislead, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment;

Source:law.cornel.edu

No! No! No! So a corporation can just pay $5,000 and throw a designer, who was only following directions, under a bus?!

Hmm… I’m not sure about having an authenticator app on a desktop computer.

Like you are putting all your eggs in one basket. Password managers, and your emails already go to one place for authentication. Adding an authenticator means if your computer is compromised, a person can have access to more accounts.

I always figured this is why desktop authenticator apps aren’t a thing.

Japan has strict laws against using fake images for food.

Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?

I understand parents can’t be around their children 24/7. Companies and organizations have a lot of products already to restrict and limit internet access. Schools and libraries should use these tools as they or as their community sees fit.

If you want to compare it to tobacco products, the main difference is to identify as an adult all you need is an ID. One person at the cashier sees it and it’s done. Online activity is more personal. It allows companies and social media to be even more toxic to adults by being able to identify adults better.

Also kids, no matter how restricted it is, will smoke if they wanted to. The same will happen with these social media restrictions excepts that adults will suffer. This will be only the beginning. More and more restrictions will come from this. That’s just how governments work.

Red flags should go up automatically with these “save the children” laws.

Parenting should stay with parents. The more power the government gets, the more they will abuse it. When companies are restricted, they will see this as an opportunity to better identify adults better.