Because they are corporate-backed I can understand why Fedora would need to think about this, but I would never use them again. The surveillance state will stay the fuck out of my devices. The discussion also seems to be centered on GNOME?
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Linux Distros Could Tell Fedora To Eat Shit.
Glad I ditched Fedora a while 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.
As if their consoderation of adopting AI into their dev stack wasn't enough.
Anyone have any recommendations for distros like Fedora that don't have systemd and won't consider using AI, but do support KDE?
MX Linux (Debian based) has a KDE version, and lets you choose a non-systemd init during the install.
I’m honestly okay with leaving KDE. Cosmic is surprisingly good.
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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.
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age verification made easy:
user has internet access -> contracts can only be made by adults -> thus age is verified...
also... whoever provides minors internet access goes to jail
I know this is tongue in cheek but kids should be able to use the internet. It's important that kids become digitally literate and the wonders of the internet are great.
It's so obvious that social media has made the world an objectively worse place and this is just another extension of that. Social media companies should face consequences when they harm children, full stop. Personally, I'd be fine with banning social media outright but I understand some may have free speech concerns. However, I don't see how the interests of corporate capital and the attention economy can be squared inside this circle. Corpos will always want to maximize screen-time and they don't give a hot fuck who's brain they melt. Unfortuantely we live in a world where even the president of the US is a demented pedophile rapist so I don't have much hope for people like Zuck seeing the consequences of his actions.
Social media is a societal disease and until we actually deal with the root of the problem, which honestly doesn't have anything to do with kids at all and really boils down to capitalist incentives and their relation to the attention economy, we will continue to see harms inflicted upon the digital citizens of the world.
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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
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).
I believe MX Linux shares a lot of devs with Antix, but offers full DE's.
Whoever the fuck supports age verification should be hung!!! Fuck that shit!!
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This is gonna kill Linux, which I'm sure is the intention.