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    [–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

    Why the NSFW TAG bro

    [–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago

    So far none have that.

    This is fear mongering at its finest.

    Also, why go back to Windows when you can just switch distro?

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    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.

    [–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    It always starts optional. There's no verification yet but many believe it will be a matter of time.

    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.

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] dorumon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Fucking Haiku sounds interesting.

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

    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

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Linux is open source, it's always optional. On the other hand, if it becomes necessary in order to access popular web content, some users will demand it.

    [–] atropa@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    So we leave popular web content , like Reddit and start again with fediverse .

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Sure, that's what I'll do. But the cool thing about open software is people can do whatever they want with it.

    [–] atropa@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

    I only use open source, windows 7 was the last operating system I used before I switched to linux.

    Last year I started removing google and switching my phone to grapheneOs, will in no way go back to microsoft and Co

    None, lol. RHEL maybe.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    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).

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    lol silly bollockses.

    [–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Welp, time to start drawing my own porn.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Are you over 18 to download Krita?

    [–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    I’ll compile from source

    yfw you find out getting access to a compiler requires an ID check

    keanu reeves losing his mouth in the matrix "unable to speak" scene

    [–] zitrone@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    then i'll compile my own compiler

    bootstrapping baby

    [–] Beep@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

    Are you mature enough to compile Krita?

    [–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

    ...as if windows will be any better...?

    [–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I was born on 1 January 1970 as the elders of the internet intended

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    You know The elders of the internet?

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    I met Al Gore as a kid, does that count?

    [–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    When you were a kid or when he was?

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

    After he invented the internet

    Yes, and they're very impressed by you winning employee of the month

    [–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If Linux people made Clippy, he probably wouldn't suck tho.

    [–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

    It looks like you are trying to adjust the user settings. Would you like to RTFM?

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Just edit the file to say verification = true?

    [–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

    Better yet, make a cron that rotates the DoB daily

    [–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

    I'd rather burn my computer.

    [–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago
    [–] richie_golds@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

    Garuda Linux at least, appears to be intending to not implement age verification.

    [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

    My distro(s) haven't done that yet. But the moment they do I'm distro hopping again.