No, windows is weird, the ISO is not actually a compressed copy of a disk with all the correct partitions and filesystems, instead it’s some goofy UFS thing. So unlike Linux, burning it won’t work - you can’t do or use anything like dd to end up with a bootable drive.

You can create it by hand though, iirc all you’d need to do is make a separate FAT32.EFI partition and copy some of the EFI files in the ISO’s EFI folder into that, while placing the rest in a normal NTFS partition, there might be more to it with a recovery partition or something like that involved so def look it up if you ever need to, but that’s the gist of it.

The specialized tools like WoeUSB basically do this for you.

Aren’t these contradictory?

Liberal Democracy is:

1. Rule by the corporations;
2. For the corporations;
3. Of the corporations.

Nothing says “trust me with your money and your children” like a permanent ‘smelled a fart’ grimace and an equally permanent entry into the sex offender registry.

He looks relatively young too, I would’ve guessed he’s more in the cryptobro workplace harassment wing of the party.

Even though this isn’t a UK rule or UK laws, but one of an international organization, it’s certainly an optics opportunity for them to make their own fund to help those who need to pay for it.

Especially since it can be argued that the alarmism around trans athletes was started by terfs.

But if they won’t, that’s an optics opportunity for progressives, like this Pink News headline here.

Headlines like “No plans to help female athletes pay for testing” - says [insert terf org here like sex matters or for women scotland or whatever] would work pretty well too.

Especially if then some relatively rich trans person or ally then went ahead and made their own independent charity fund to help struggling athletes pay for these tests, assuming there is actually demand there (I have no idea how much they make at that level), all while having some blerbs on their website out of the way on their website about advocacy for removing barriers to participation, education about intersex disorders that cause false positives or even true positives to unknowingly intersex cis women and how they are working on streamlining this yada yada and how few trans athletes there are total or how some studies show that over time performance equalises and how they already test for T levels etc etc.

Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised that most cis fem athletes don’t see it that way, and I’m not sure where I stand on it either.

Personally I could give a fuck about sports regardless, but while millions of trans folks are stuck suffering from dysphoria without proper care, anything that damages the terf establishment is a good thing.

Ehm, this is an international organization’s regulations. Not the UK at fault here.

The UK is just advising their own athletes of the international org’s policy - and telling them to pay out of pocket rather to “avoid delays”, even though financing is available to those who need it on a “case by case” basis.

Dafuck? Are you saying this won’t be the case? I mean, it’s not exactly what OP asked but I think a real life functional example of OS-level age checks that already exists is a valuable contribution to the conversation. Do you disagree?

Honestly feels like you’re the “low effort troll” here here swarming a bot army for some votes. Blocked.

Yes. For example, on iOS It’ll work like this once this is no longer “in error” https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

I don’t know about the new law in California, but here in the UK the age verification push is happening is because our young people are overwhelmingly left-wing and progressive, and get their news online and not from our captured legacy media, and the right-wing establishment doesn’t like that, so they’re trying to block young people from internet access.

Edit: wtf is with the downvotes? Do y’all support this shit? Here are some sources to back up what I said:

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/voting-intention -

In the UK: 49% of 18-24 year olds are voting for the Green party, highest of any party by far. 27% of 25-49 year olds are voting for the Greens, with only 19% for Reform (the far-right party).

This trend reverses once you look at the age groups over 50, with 50-65 year olds favouring reform at 29% at Green’s 16%, and over 65s favouring reform at 33% to Green’s 6%.

Furthermore, the other demographics factors like gender and even region(!) don’t demonstrate such a clear correlation, and this is further confirmed by another recent poll done where the surveyed were asked to pick between a left-wing coalition and a right-wing one:

Our elderly consume vastly more print and specifically television news than our young people - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/adult-and-teen-news-consumption-survey/news-consumption-in-the-uk-2025-research-findings.pdf?v=400636

See specifically figure 4 from page 9:

This is very inconvenient for a primarily right-wing establishment. I could see similar dynamics playing out in California though i don’t know enough to say for certain.

Obviously I don’t think this is the only reason that age verification is being implemented, especially as it’s seemingly being done all around the globe all at once, and often companies with known links to Peter Thiel and Palantir and the defense sector are involved, such as with e.g. discord and Thiel did allegedly say he explicitly wants to make a surveillance state. Obviously countries like the UK have been speed running that goal for a while so, make of that what you will.

There’s also seemingly bi-partisan support for this issue from establishment parties, arising from tech ignorance of the boomer class and more genuine, and well-meaning concerns about the spread of misinformation from social liberals and progressives, especially where their country’s young people are turning to far-right misinformation.

I think the combination of these two factors is likely what is pushing the specific law OP is referring to in California, though this is just speculation as I’m not familiar with it’s state legislature and their political makeup.

The recent push for these sorts of laws in Europe also could be explained by the fact that those countries can use regulation as leverage in trade negotiations with an increasingly beligirent united states because they know that Trump’s regime is beholden to the tech oligarchy that amassed around him - the same oligarchy who would stand to lose money if these regulations were implemented because they own the platforms primarily targeted by this.

This last reason is further compounded by the fact that Elon Musk has genuinely been artificially promoting far-right content, including his own, on his platform, and he has been since he acquired it. Considering how many people use twitter, its a genuine risk to the political autonomy and democratic integrity of countries like France, which is also investigating twitter for the algorithm manipulation.

Is it joever or has it only bidan?

co-op and Waitrose

I know I missed a few lol. There’s M&S too.

missing the point

No, you’re missing mine.

Your cheap goods

I’ve never bought from one of those shoplifters and I’ve never personally met or seen one, the only place I’ve heard them mentioned is the internet, I have zero self-interested motivation here, I’m arguing only based on principle and nothing more.

Out of business

Now you’re getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world so they could vote for more racism and despair.

Nothing less than total corpo death.

Then we can sail to the stars.

And? I said “corporation”. I don’t give a fuck how “Legitimate” they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.

Sainsbury’s is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.

Tesco’s is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.

Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.

ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.

They are not the fucking struggling little guy that you seem to want to portray them as.

it doesn’t affect them

It’s the shop who takes the loss

So it does affect them, then?

Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.

They’re selling them to people who can’t afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.

Where there’s demand, there’s supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn’t worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they’re just poor.

There’s a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it’s pretty clear that they’re not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.

People are systematically ignored by the NHS.

If you think this is cursed… Try playing steam games over X forwarding xD

It’s cool though!

There’s enough pressure from European countries at this point regarding age verification, algo manipulation and more that soon it’s gonna be more like the American containment zone rather than a great firewall of anywhere

What’s that file browser? It’s pretty neat.

Idk how I feel about the bold condensed font in the settings menu on the bottom right but still really well done rice.

So this ambxst a window manager or like a full DE or something? No idea what a “shell” is in this context, like an MS-DOS shell lol?

It’s funny how this is meant to be right-wing slop to get me outraged about le benefits, but even if this was true (and I believed it was till I read the comments below), I always just took it as a condemnation of our awful economy and wages.

Immigration outrage comes from the powers that be via the internet, but our free falling standard of living is immediately obvious and easily observed to anyone under the age of 50.

The awful shape of our streets and our people is a stark reminder of the fact that less than half the actual population is in full time employment according to ONS (25 mil out of 69m total), combined with non-existant growth since 2008, even when measured in GDP per capita.

The only growth has been in sectors that block growth in other sectors, every well meaning regulation passed by Labour of yore turned into a privatised cottage industry where taxpayer funds are funneled into endless consultations where everyone skims off the top, yet bureaucracy is blamed while no one is accountable for anything when the buildings fall.

This country has two paths forward, the future and a nightmare. For the former - Vote Green.💚✅

Def dualboot just in case. I just finished a dualboot setup myself where I installed MacOS on a partition after shrinking my main LUKS+LVM root+home kali partition that used to span the drive, after that brain surgery tier shuffling I feel a lot better about doing dual boot setups, lmk if you need any help!

P.S. I’d also use Windows 10 if you can, a lot nicer than 11.