Are you connected to some VPN? I had this when I connected to some mainstream servers, and was able to log in just fine when I switched to something less common, without changing any security/privacy features.

Nah, they’ve been forcing kids to sing the anthem every morning almost as long as the US, where they got the idea from.

Sure, though quite a few of those things are not explicitly written down, and court transcripts are only published in high profile cases, so you won’t find any official reference to the group size. So it’s mostly from second hand experience and hearsay. You pick up one or the other thing if you live in China for nearly a decade.

But here’s some official reading - I hope the sites are accessible from outside China, that’s something I can’t validate right now.

You should be good to go with google translate; though specifically for Chinese legalese, I suggest yandex translate (assuming you don’t speak Chinese):

https://m.66law.cn/laws/1470356.aspx

https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/llyj/202111/t20211130_537133.shtml

http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0416/c205462-32079979.html

https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_20925867

It’s sufficient to mention it in a wechat group with >10 people, which already qualified as instigating “the masses”.

Just sign up for their API and use chatboxai.app (free software), use the GPT4 API code, and you’ll use the model through an alternative front-end for pennies on the dollar.

I’m using it extensively and rarely spend more than 1,20 - 1,50 a month.

Not the OP, but I for once can’t. She’s not sexualized in any way.

I can’t wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

Yeah I’ll try eventually, but I got another Laptop running Xubuntu just fine, so I just don’t really use the Surface at all. It’s more of a last resort for the time being, and for that, any OS will do.

Excellent choice of music. Though I gotta say I even prefer their older albums when they sounded less refined. Same with Ensiferum, over time they just got a bit too polished for my taste.

I have a Surface Notebook 2 and for the life of me can’t get Ubuntu (or Xubuntu in my case) to work with it. No matter which installation style I use, either it crashes during the installation or never boots into the bootloader. Eventually I installed some custom Arch, but I hate it.

I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.

The thing is that gen.xyz is the registrar itself, i.e. the highest authority for this tld. If they blacklist domains, you’re screwed.

They are indeed the registrar. Would have expected more.

Oh true, my dad’s house that I used to compare the ones in China to is in Germany.

I live in China. Trust me, you don’t want to have those homes in the US. The house I live in has been completed in 2016 and I’m the first tenant, moved in in 2018, and it’s got more issues than my dad’s house from 1965. Houses here are built as cheaply as possible, skimping on building materials, safety, plumbing, insulation, wiring, etc.

The pricing bubble is just a joke on top. The actual value of the real estate here should be about 20-25% of what it is in reality - for example if I were to buy the house I’m renting right now, I’d break even after 114 years. Not taking any repairs or interest into account.

Macau never had the same autonomy as HK. They saw themselves as a part of China colonized by Portugal, whereas Hong Kong was proudly independent and part of the British Empire.

So the situation there is just the same as it is in HK right now, it just didn’t bother the people a whole lot. Their entire business model as a country was catering to the Chinese society anyway, and on that end, nothing changed.

Tankies gonna tank. Just block their shit instance and move on with your life.

Is the game older, that no active links remain? In that case any up to date antivirus should find whichever malware might be embedded in the game easily.

And you say that knowing my jurisdiction and its applicable laws?

The option to download free is excellent, I wouldn’t know what price is “fair” without checking it out first. Will give it a try for a couple days and then come back with a decision (or not if I end up not liking it, who knows).