Ok, so let’s say you’re a minor and I get a hold of your hash. Now I’m going to run it through the service every day, whether you log in or not. The day you turn 18 I’m going to know your date of birth.

Online ID should only be legally mandated in cases where KYC (know your customer) laws exist, like financial services.

If you want to protect children, make them use devices that are locked down and block adult content. Online service providers should at most be required to mark such content with metadata.

If you’re interested in that sort of thing, look for a job in “data annotation”.

If like most people they only really need a browser, Linux Mint. If they’re more of a power user, let them try a few DEs (Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, Cosmic, XFCE) and choose a distro based on which they prefer.

I mean, I get it. The Register does love clickbaity headlines. IMO making fun of that is fair game.

Could be a number of things:

• If you’re using Nvidia, make sure the right driver is installed. On many distributions you need to install this through a “Driver Manager” or something like that.
• If you’re on an LTS version rather than a rolling release, it may help to install a newer kernel.
• Could be a bug in Proton. Try telling Steam to use a different version.