Its multiple states plus some countries too.
But anyway the law as it stand is not problematic to any one. When installing an OS and asked for birth date put any random date.
If the law require actual verification or make it illegal - for you as a user - to provide false date then its fascist in my book
Your point was around age verification which I am saying systemd’s update doesn’t do such thing
Its similar but not the same. Original was for input birthdate but this one is for specify general age group
if I’m not mistaken the systemd PR implementing the birthdate change is closed wihout the code being merged. For now. it was merged and another pull request was created to revert that change. that pull request was closed.
To be clear the code went into the repo
Think of the boiling frog metaphore.
You’re saying - if I get you right - that if we let systemd add birthdate field today, tomorrow or after tomorrow we won’t revolt if we have to upload an ID to install an OS.
I respectfully disagree. I have a clear red line which is “don’t force me to do stuff”.
You want to add an optional field? I couldn’t care less.
You want me to input my valid birthdate or I can’t use your system. That’s when I revolt.
so you want them to comply after the deadline?
I think xdg-desktop protocol was already rejected
I know there is a lot of misleading information online regarding this matter so please allow me to write down my version and feel free to correct me.
The law - as it is now - doesn’t require any actual verification, it just wants OS to require users to provide a birth date. You - as a user - can put whatever date your heart desire. The purpose is that parents performing OS setup for their children could input their correct date of birth so that apps know that a minor is using the PC not an Adult.
Systemd provides field for you to store your birth date. It is an optional field and it will obviously be blank in your system unless you dig around to find out how to set it.
The ones who would enforce the date of birth thing is installers of various Linux distribution who wish to comply. ArchLinux has an open merge request that would require providing a birth date (again no verification, you put what you want)
Happy to provide links to support any of my claims above
what difference does it make to you if you don’t mind me asking
This is a law that companies are required to implement or stop making business in the states enforcing that law.
You probably feel that companies should just stop doing business in those states “to show them”. Sadly a lot of profitable Linux companies that fund Linux development disagree with your high morals. They want to continue doing business there.
Adding that field help those company comply with the law and doesn’t hurt you in anyway except maybe taking few bytes in your disk drive.
Even if the field is not added, those companies would come up with another place to store date of birth or even use systemd fork.
Its not like they will say since we can’t store date of birth in systemd’s user model then we’ll have to abandon this project and close our branches in those states instead.
I have read the git thread related to the merge request.
I don’t see what’s the big deal. You have a user model that already contain fields like user’s full name, location, … among others and all this developer did was adding yet another optional field called date of birth.
This does nothing to verify user’s age and enforce nothing. They’ve stressed that repeatedly in the comments.
What that does is making it easy for a Linux distro to store user’s birthday - should they wish to do so - and making that bit of info accessible to running apps so that each app can do what it wants with it.
User’s fullname and location are already there which are also optional so what’s the big deal?
I didn’t like Nvidia products even before hearing that.
Guess that another reason to avoid it.
are you able to ping a website? try this command “ping google.com” without quotes
if you press “Alt+F2” a popup should appear with a text field where you can type in a command like “terminal”
are you able to open terminal inside your KDE by any chance?
yes there is also windows 11 lite / tiny11 and yes I usually VirtualBox is fine.
you will find stripped down versions of windows (i.e windows 10 lite) with low ram consumption. I run windows 10 with 2GB of RAM. Of course if you will play games you would need a lot more than that.
Virtualmachines dont usually provide good experiance for graphics intense apps. I would strongly recommend wine or proton instead.
steam runs on Linux so if your games on steam you may not need windows.
I haven’t played on it for a long time but if there is a game in particular that you want to test, I can check it out for you
this one is working very well for me and still receiving lineageos updates.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/gta4xl/
it was released 5 years ago (2020), not sure if you’d consider that newish
You scared me for a second
I have started with Mandrake (later renamed to Mandriva) then went through few other distros before settling on Gentoo.
Gentoo installation is one of the most complicated because there is no installer, you do everything yourself.
This is like buying car parts and assembling them together into a car using a manufacturer’s manual. its painful but once the car is assembled you almost never have to take it to a repair shop. Not because it doesn’t breakdown but because you know well how it function and thus how to fix it yourself.