What distros are actually planning on forcing users to verify their age? All I've heard is maybe adding a optional field for date of birth.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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It always starts optional. There's no verification yet but many believe it will be a matter of time.
Yeah I mean I'm not defending this bullshit. I think its all stupid, unnecessary and it doesn't do shit to pRoTeCt ThE cHiLdrEn.
I wasn't really commenting on any of that, just asking if there's any that do actual verification yet.
No no you see when this does get implemented and it will. Years later when they ask for a cryptographic signature verifying your age on Linux. Fucking Haiku will be the next big thing alongside Plan 9 Front. Its just how the cookie crumbles.
Fucking Haiku sounds interesting.
It doesn't get more hipster than the open source equivalent for the original alternative OS for PowerPC Macs (BeOS). The BeOS guys might still have been kicking around if Steve Jobs didn't come back to Apple
Those "many" then have no idea what open source means.
I'd scale my outrage with the severity of the problem. That's not to say that it's a good move, and the law itself must be overturned for everyone's sake, but regarding systemd, we're at a weird forking point between "slippery slope fallacy" and the type of gradual accumulation of minor evils that sum up to a great one.
If the slope actually starts slipping and entry becomes mandatory, I'll take the L and join the push for alternative init systems. Right now, I just have to ration my energy.
I don't know but I expect it from corporate distros like Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse.
I don't think community distros would ever do something like that (despite all the drama going with arch).
despite all the drama going with arch
Wots this then? I haven't paid attention since the power source of my tower turned into a smoke machine.
https://xcancel.com/LundukeJournal/status/2035852545864683533
Just some internet drama, don't mind it too much.
lol silly bollockses.
So far none have that.
This is fear mongering at its finest.
Also, why go back to Windows when you can just switch distro?
...as if windows will be any better...?
I was born on 1 January 1970 as the elders of the internet intended
You know The elders of the internet?
Yes, and they're very impressed by you winning employee of the month
I met Al Gore as a kid, does that count?
When you were a kid or when he was?
After he invented the internet
Welp, time to start drawing my own porn.
Are you over 18 to download Krita?
I'll compile from source
Are you mature enough to compile Krita?
Just edit the file to say verification = true?
If Linux people made Clippy, he probably wouldn't suck tho.
It looks like you are trying to adjust the user settings. Would you like to RTFM?
I'd rather burn my computer.
My distro(s) haven't done that yet. But the moment they do I'm distro hopping again.
Why the NSFW TAG bro
a very tiny "porn" text is in the image, that's basically thr same as having literal porn in the image!
I needed my glasses to check