He thinks a cross-distro API standard can be a practical solution to tackle age verification.
    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Imo looks unintentional, just an unfortunate result of the circuit traces being arranged as they are.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    … sssssssiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhh

    I went with a Fedora distro because the Intel GPU drivers were less of a headache. Guess I must now find another distro…

    • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      30 days ago

      I already got BSD on a spare laptop. Granted it was freeBSD and I think I might switch to OpenBSD since the latter’s foundation is Canadian and not US based.

      But yeah if they go through with this I will be uninstalling it off my gaming machine and switching to Arch 100%. I really appreciated that line about it “not being April fools” when it was introduced in their github thread.

  • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    We’re not legally required to have age verification here so if they try that shit here we’re just Gina nice to Arch/arch like :/

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      That’s not enough. Just like with systemd, you will be made to care about what the corporatist Microsoft-garglers at Red Hat do, whether you use it or not.

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chatEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What problem does this even solve? On Linux, what app would even be asking how old you are? Web browsers for sure, and maybe electron apps like Discord? But what else is there?

    I’m on Bazzite (based on Fedora). I’m comfy with it, moving distros is a significant effort, so I’m very unlikely to ever jump ship. If I have to make a workflow that mirrors the official Bazzite images and neuters this age check, so be it. Not that complicated.

    But I’m willing to bet the community will step up and maintain browsers/apps that don’t have these age checks in the first place. Firefox has many forks that definitely won’t, and Vesktop will probably stub this out when it inevitably comes to Discord. If there’s nothing to ask for age verification, it doesn’t matter what the OS can do.

    I really don’t see a need to burn a distro I’m comfortable with, even if the upstream maintainers are a little dumb. There a ton of ways to bend a Linux distro to your will without throwing your hands up.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      30 days ago

      What problem does this even solve? On Linux, what app would even be asking how old you are? Web browsers for sure, and maybe electron apps like Discord? But what else is there?

      I’m on Bazzite (based on Fedora). I’m comfy

      well, the app catalog, steam, certain games, …

      tbh parental controls would be useful to have. you can’t be watching every minute if they are doing something inappropriate. usage time limits are also useful.

      why are people so much against tools? we are so afraid of the slippery slope that we don’t even consider to accept legitimately useful optional tools

      can we acknowledge that what happens on the internet today is harmful to children? now, you either properly set up limits for them, or cut their access, if you want any good.

      • softotteep@pawb.socialEnglish
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        30 days ago

        All Linux distros either come with parental controls or have a way of installing them. This age verification shit was never about protecting the children.

            • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              27 days ago

              this is just limiting what apps can be opened, and it only works for flatpak apps. how will you disable all the other apps that are installed? how do you disable the shell which could be used to download a non-flatpak browser?

              and as you said it does not even try to limit which websites are allowed to be visited, or for how much time can the computer be used. a pihole can be circumvented with DoH, for which there is an easy toggle in firefox, probably chrome too

                • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                  22 days ago

                  of course, but no root permission is needed for that. flatpak packages can be installed on the user level, but even if you somehow disable that, they could still just download firefox (or anything else) as a tarball, unpack it and run it traditionally

  • blacksnow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I hope OpenSuse doesn’t follow, or I will have to switch to a fully community distro that have already said the f word to age verification

    • cenzorrll@piefed.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The antix linux call gets stronger and stronger for me everyday. I have it on a 23 year old laptop and it runs quite well, although it isn’t as clean as a using a full DE. While I do like running an enterprise grade OS, I’m happy to ditch any weak-willed organization that won’t stand up for itself or it’s users and become a radical antifascist communist cypherpunk hippie anarchist (on the outside).