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Hi Xiyue Zhang! A few things: - have you tried emailing support@github.com? They can help tell you what’s wrong or fix it for you. - it probably has nothing to do with Linux vs windows. - “Microsoft is bad” is a mindset that restricts many opportunities. Consider avoiding “black and white” ideas about things. Good luck!
Could we not attach their name to this so that it comes up when future employers search for it? It just seems unnecessary.
Even a 3-year old kid can use Gitee, China's GitHub. Can't I just end my Digital Ocean VPS free trial and just delete my account? My birthday is coming soon. I lost my control to Vercel, which hosts my website https://euyix.me/
If you don’t want this to happen again, you need more control of your platform.
“The cloud is just someone else’s computer.”
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
> On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your computing freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to give someone else power over your computing.
If I can't end my Digital Ocean VPS trial, it will cost $84 a month, I really don't want this to happen, my mom will "kill" me.
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Digital Ocean has a process for this https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/i-lost-access-to-the-g... It requires a photo id government issued. You would be able to use a passport.
He's 12 lol
Hi Xiyue Zhang! A few things: - have you tried emailing support@github.com? They can help tell you what’s wrong or fix it for you. - it probably has nothing to do with Linux vs windows. - “Microsoft is bad” is a mindset that restricts many opportunities. Consider avoiding “black and white” ideas about things. Good luck!
I agree. Microsoft is "50 shades of Black".
As others have pointed out, this is due to COPPA. Use a foreign service, host your own, or get creative. Personally I'd say that hosting your own is probably your best, if not your cheapest option, as it'll teach you plenty about running a server, and ultimately, could be done on a pretty minimal spare machine (raspberry pi), if not right on your main system. You can get a free hostname redirect from a service like No-IP to access it with a dynamic IP if you're trying to access it from outside of your home network.
As much as COPPA does have some negative side effects, it's not getting repealed any time soon -- companies are still collecting WAY too much information about children, including the under 13 crowd, mostly under the same argument Pornhub tried using ("the uploader SAID the content was legal"), and then happily reaping the financial benefits of having collected it. Perhaps having a tier of under 13 rules allowing reduced use could work, but the legal system is picking its battles here, and making sure kids have access to online services just isn't a priority.
Is it illegal you use fake name and fake age on the internet? asking for a friend :)