Usually calling Windows support, they'll give you a key if you just tell them you replaced some piece of hardware due to failure, assuming you haven't been transferring the same key around for awhile. They tend to be more invested in keeping you in the Windows ecosystem than they are are just getting one more license sold.

It's worth the weird name if you care about maintaining privacy rights.

No career can be started by a child. None that would be worthwhile to get a head start in.

Block on Lemmy doesn't prevent the blocked person from seeing your posts.

Edit: which is the crux of comparing mute on Twitter to block on Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon etc.

Even defederating doesn't stop them from seeing your posts. It just means you don't collect theirs.

You can have a good movie with poor elements and a poor movie with great elements. I'd even argue you can have a good movie with bad acting. Plus, it's all about the intent of the movie, as with any piece of art. Cocaine Bear had an intent. It fulfilled that intent. Claiming that art can objectively be rated is naive.

I don't know. I just had a discussion where someone told me it'd unrealistic to give up YouTube for the alternatives and yadda yadda yadda. It bears reminding that not everyone is as privacy-minded and make up nowhere near a majority. Not caring what happens because you aren't using chromium is dangerous. It's still about you and it's still going to affect you.

Because there's precedent that handles have value (on the order of thousands of USD). They're taking value from a customer. It'd be interesting to see what swag they offered in exchange, but considering the guy's net worth, he could have afforded some decency. I mean, Gmail can just take your email address to, but it is how many identify themselves in business, so it can harm them financially. Sure, that's the risk with doing that, but it is what it is. Musk could have generated some good will but instead generated more bad publicity. I'm beginning to think he has no PR on staff or just surrounds himself with people who never say no.

Because of the handset makers and wireless carriers (honestly more the latter than the former). It's not because of Google or Android.

Switch to Kbin. You can already block by domain on there.

Your argument is "be reasonable" and then some subjective feeling about what you feel is personally reasonable. Your reason isn't objective. I addressed this in literally every comment in some fashion. Your feelings aren't an argument.

Edit: especially since you never addressed the technical limitations I mentioned in any way shape or fashion. That's a much bigger hurdle than your opinions about what fits in general purpose.

As far as I know, you can only create communities on your own instance. I don't like the idea of telling people that need to create accounts elsewhere becsuse their community isn't welcome.

A general purpose instance is general purpose. As long as it doesn't break any rules, it should be welcomed.

And segregating the fediverse is literally not what it's about. There shouldn't be forced segregation.

Instances shouldn't be localized unless that's its purpose. If there was a feddit.us that was general purpose, I'd be fine if someone from the UK created a football community first.

There's no such thing as a better place for something in the fediverse. There's only not acceptable places. And general purpose has a very low bar for acceptable.

I feel like most folks don't get the idea behind the fediverse and the multi-instance concept.

You should have spent time reading the rules of your server before spending time with writing your content. It doesn't matter if others care or not. Someone has a wall and is letting you write on it. It's their wall, not yours. They can make their own rules. You are free to have your own wall.