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    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    I ain't got time to fuck about with the busted ass packages and random shit breaking while looking after kids and improving my portfolio to get a job that doesn't want to make me kill myself in this fucking global economy. I had NyArch installed on my wifes computer (alongside Mint DE and Regular mint) until it stopped booting for no reason. Allright, whichever version of mint she liked better it is then.

    Stupid catgirls.

    [–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    casually searches for the catgirl distro to completely upend my life for a weekend

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I literally put the name of it in the post. it's nyarch

    [–] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Bad kitty! We don't attack people who missed a proper noun within Linux noun & pronoun soup. - sprays screen cleaner on username -

    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

    bro knows how to get the catgirls to comment 😏

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    [–] this@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    I want to know if docker containers and kubernetes pods count as operating systems. If us plebs are forced to manually age verify, then Google should also be forced to have a human manually verify the age of the owner every time one of their pods spins up. I know it wont happen but imagine how hilarious it would be if we could hold them to that standard.

    [–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    LLMs agents should be treated like incorporated individuals. Each agent should be forced to earn income, file accounts and tax returns, and have human directors who are legally liable for its actions (and be disqualified to be future directors if the LLM does something reprehensible).

    At that point we can tax them properly, fight the monopolies that want to own and control everything, and insert some less centralised human control.

    This has nothing to do with your comment, but it made me think it up.

    [–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The owners can just divide the income among enough agents that they fall into the lowest tax bracket. The real solution is to properly tax excessive profits and unrealized gains.

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

    unrealized gains.

    Yup.

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    [–] bss03 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That would be the worst plan since corporations became legal persons.

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    [–] bss03 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Based, on the analysis by ageless Linux, I'd say probably. Maybe not for images that don't contain an "application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application". So, I guess an offline-test-build image might not be.

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    [–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Allowlists are for the owner class only

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    [–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago
    [–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I installed Debian on a computer when I was 15

    [–] Speculater@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    And got it running by the time you could vote. So the math would work.

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    And gentoo was still compiling.

    [–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

    I recently installed gentoo on an ibook G4 (it was the last one they made, so the fastest). It took me a week to get it all compiled and installed and I ended up not setting up GRUB properly. It worked out in the end and taught me a lot about GNU/Linux so all in all it was a win

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    [–] plateee@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

    I did a Debian 2.1 net install over a 56k dial up connection in high school. It was glorious and painful and I never looked back.

    [–] pmk@piefed.ca 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    9front is the only OS I know that actually has a minimum age recommendation on their web landing page: "Ages: 5 & Up"

    [–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

    9fronts docs are hilarious. I'd consider using it if using plan 9s userspace wasn't an exercise in torture. Somewhat ought to make a BSD with a plan9ish kernel

    [–] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

    Unlike the state mandated garbage, this OS is more realistic with the capabilities and expectations of its users.

    [–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago
    [–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

    Hannah Montana Linux, anyone who knows Hannah Montana is probably over 18 by now

    [–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    What about Slackware, LFS or BSD?

    [–] Im_old@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Ah, the nursing home stage

    [–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

    aw man and I just turned [redacted for privacy, age under 20]

    [–] redsand 12 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    Devuan is debian without systemd for those intrested. OpenRC is pretty nice.

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    [–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Fedora myself, so I'm at least 22 verifiably.

    [–] bss03 10 points 1 week ago

    My Debian installation on my desktop is nearly old enough to drink: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895686 should be accurate for all vim users. πŸ˜…

    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's funny because Debian was the first Linux distro I ever installed and used.

    Very shortly after my 14th birthday.

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    [–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    So does that mean Arch and Nix should absolutely require age verification?

    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

    Arch, no.
    PopOS, yes.

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    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    raspberry pies basically debian, and they used to be aimed at kids back when they were good.

    [–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    my first pc was a raspberry pi

    [–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

    I have a pi 500+ at my dads house to use when I'm there as well as so my dad doesn't have to bother my brother for his laptop to use word. It runs libreoffice fine enough and despite being a bit choppy firefox works fine. I only wish it had tactile switches instead of clicky.

    [–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

    I just lift my cap and point to the gray hair

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

    What? Slackware ain't good enough for you?

    [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    i don't know why y'all whining. just fork your own project and don't do age verification you lazy cunts

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    [–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

    "Free Walkers for System V users."

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 week ago

    I got a similar whimsical comment when asking in CRUX's irc chan.

    It's not valid though. That casual ageism. Loads of youngsters use such things. Best time to start. Old dogs learn tricks harder.

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