The “loosing hair where I want it to grow and growing it where I definitely don’t want it to grow” thing.

That, and also when the questions require actual understanding instead of memorized knowledge.

Also, our professors tended to make open book exams so tight on time that you couldn’t realistically look most things up.

Properly made open book exams are not easier. The opposite.

All this nvidia stuff is so complicated on Linux,

I installed mint, opened the driver manager, picked the latest NVIDIA driver and it just worked. No idea what everybody is talking about …

Granted I’m on an old 1080ti, so maybe that’s it …

“Specific use cases” here seems to be “has a Nvidia GPU”

My 1080 Ti was plug&play in Mint …

Fucking legend!

If your friend is an EU citizen, they might have some luck with a GDPR request to delete all their data.

They also might not. Meta technically would have to comply, but there is no real way to know if they did.

Nope. You cannot.

Of course they are. You can pay or consent to tracking.

You called bullshit on it being common on the continent, I provided examples from the continent.

www.spiegel.de

www.faz.net

www.sueddeutsche.de

www.heise.de

www.golem.de

www.derstandard.at

www.repubblica.it/