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[–] Archr@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

However.. ive read the associated analysis of the California bill that reads directly on legislative intent:

quoting he Cali Senate Judiciary Committee analysis : file:///home/jspaleta/Downloads/202520260AB1043_Senate%20Judiciary.pdf

Why are we listening to a person who tried to link a file directly from their downloads folder?

Also the original post that the article is referencing on the fedora forums is suggesting that we remove all networking support from baseline linux as some way to comply/circumvent the law.

I'm sorry, but I just can't take anything said in that forum post seriously.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

bro... wtf should i use now??

Back to Arch??

Back to Debian??

or fuck it go TempleOS.....

[–] wioum@lemmy.world 138 points 4 days ago
[–] Xyphius@lemmy.ca 75 points 4 days ago
[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why do some people just have the worst fucking ideas...and why is "some" starting to feel like "most"

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Because media propaganda makes it seem as if the majority have certain views. People don't like to be on the outside so if the media can trick people into conforming then they will try that.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does Fedora has a Code of Conduct? Time to update it to either be

  • the meaningless "Be excellent to each other!" (as seen in any open source Elon Musk project),
  • or to include "protecting diverse opinions" (which is always a code word for "protecting bigotry") instead of throwing out bigots who often don't even meaningfully contribute to the project,
  • or to the Ten Commandments,

if they really like the taste of the boot. Maybe they could remove "woke" elements altogether for that sweet fascist-controlled US money.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please don't mix Bill&Ted with that asshole

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Elon was who mixed Bill&Ted into his garbage products.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Dang, am I about to become an Arch user?

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If youre not picky and want to use the default setups, arch install is so easy now. The script is very easy to follow and takes like 10 mins to install depending on your network speed. The only "hard" part during the install is connect to the internet. But iwctl takes care of that

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's a lot easier to use than one would guessed it at first. Much easier, than wrestling with getting the right cmake/gcc versions every time on Debian the moment you don't want to use not a 2+ years old version of something.

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I already got BSD on a spare laptop. Granted it was freeBSD and I think I might switch to OpenBSD since the latter's foundation is Canadian and not US based.

But yeah if they go through with this I will be uninstalling it off my gaming machine and switching to Arch 100%. I really appreciated that line about it "not being April fools" when it was introduced in their github thread.

[–] knip@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Theres also artix which is basically arch without systemd.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

... sssssssiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhh

I went with a Fedora distro because the Intel GPU drivers were less of a headache. Guess I must now find another distro...

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would wait and be very vocal about not wanting it in the forums and stuff first.

This isn't decided and nothing has been added yet at the time of me writing this.

It deserves to be ridiculed and shot down through so that it never makes it through but the problem is Red Hat is an American company.

So I always knew this was going to happen to fedora. Still though, let's see what happens.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

At least with my Core i7-4702MQ, it worked without much of a hassle on Manjaro.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago
[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

well well here we go again old friend:

sudo pacman -Syu

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 54 points 4 days ago

Ok well I suggest Fedora Project leader get fucked. Plenty of other good distros bub.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

inb4

sudo usermod —birthday “1970-01-01”
[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the beginning of history.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 2 days ago

In the beginning, ~~God~~ K&R created the ~~dinosaurs~~ time_t.

[–] Peter1986C@piefed.europe.pub 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have a feeling that a lot of those who replied have not really read the article, that contains some nuances. I do not like the idea of age verification, but the project leader's proposal is apparently not even official (and more like a hypothetical in a discussion thread on their forums.

Please read more than headlines, lol.

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[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

Oh wait, there aren't people chiming in to call me and others a fucking idiot and a stupid man child and all the other talking points for suggesting that the systemd merge was going to escalate?

Fascinating. I wonder where they all went. Maybe they're on the BSD forums now, but somehow I doubt it.

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[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Welp... There goes Fedora!...

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As long as I have root, I’m as old as I wanna be.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not if age verification is done by a digital signature from the smart card in your government issued ID.

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We’re not legally required to have age verification here so if they try that shit here we’re just Gina nice to Arch/arch like :/

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeahhhh

We use Debian and ripped out systemd (replaced it with openrc) a bit before all this happened. Feeling really good about that choice now.

(unrelated: plural gang! :3)

-- Frost

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We’re still relatively new to Linux even after a year of switching. Started learning more about the terminal just to get comfortable with it and it’s not hard at all, just got to remember ask the commands haha (did make a cheat sheet lol)

(Unrelated: Yoooo plural gang!!!! :D) -PJ & Sam

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Youtube requires age verification for some content since many years.

Out of curiosity, who here is still browsing YT without verified age?

Who browses YT logged in with their google account and verified age?

Too bad we don't have pool here. I would really like to see what % of people complaining about age verification here verified their age in their google account.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I've never verified my age for any operating system or website. I use YouTube logged out with an ad blocker

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

For solutions that back on actually "verifying" the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.

As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn't mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.

Accounts already require your "full name" but we don't consider that "full name verification".

This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state "verification".

Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.

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[–] webp@mander.xyz 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there a swastika in that image?

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

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?

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Nothing is sacred to these fucks

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 12 points 4 days ago

Linux Distros Could Tell Fedora To Eat Shit.

[–] nofate@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Glad I ditched Fedora a while ago.

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