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BartyDeCanter

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  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • Yes it fucking does. Go read the bill, particularly section 1798.501.b, 1798.502.a and b. Every developer of every application that can be downloaded from every package system MUST request your age bracket every time it is downloaded. And possibly every time it is launched. Basic utilities like ‘ls’ and ‘cat’, that pong example I pushed as a test, everything.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • But it actually does require that. Read section 1798.502.b. Every developer of every application has to ask for your age bracket through this mechanism. The open source developers behind ‘ls’, ‘cp’, ‘rsync’ are all suddenly required to ask my age category of face a $2500-$7500 fine per time my kids run apt upgrade. That is utterly absurd.

    Hell, I’m suddenly liable if a kid downloads my pong example project that I put up on crates.io or PyPI?!?

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • Fucking hell, 1798.502.b is even more insane. Every developer of every single project has request the age bracket of every possible user? The people working on fucking ‘cp’ and ‘ls’ have to ask my age category when I run an update?!? This is absolutely insane.

  • Choose your pill

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  • The Haiku one should be the yellow one.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • For a new user, the most important things are usually a familiar feeling desktop environment, comprehensive default hardware support, and plenty of documentation in case you need it. The most important anti-things are needing to learn a bunch of new concepts right away, needing to use the command line, and experimental things that are known to break regularly.

    Since you’re a Mac user, I would suggest KDE over Gnome for a desktop environment. Even though the default Gnome application bar looks very Mac-like and the default bar on KDE looks very windows-like, the rest of the KDE desktop feels much more Mac-like.

    For the rest, you will want to use a common distro with a wide user base and a long history targeted at desktop users.

    For those reasons, I would suggest either Kubuntu, or Fedora KDE.

    Edit: When picking between those two, choose Kubuntu is you want to install the OS, and then not worry about major updates for several years. Pick Fedora if you want to have new features more often.

    If you are ok with a more Windows-like desktop environment, Linux Mint is the go to option for an easy intro to Linux.

  • Time to uninstall krita (/s)

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  • Is that an ASCII version of the praying hands emoji?!?

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • Furthermore, what is this law actually going to accomplish? What is the threat model that this protects from? How does it accomplish that? How is it better than something less invasive? Not some vague pearl clutching bullshit, but an actual threat protection model.

  • Add it to the collection

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  • I have had a series of blenders that live on the countertop and are primarily used to make smoothies. My partner had an electric egg poacher, but we lost it in the move. It never got to live on the counter permanently, but I would use it about once a week.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • There are still so many problems with this. In addition to the general fuck you, it’s my computer, and fuck the state for forcing creeping surveillance on people, and how the hell would you enforce this, how would this even work for any of the following:

    • My RaspPi, running an older version of Linux. As far as I can tell, if I compile the kernel or write some code for it I would become the OS Provider.
    • A multiuser computer
    • A multiple people using the same account computer
    • Retro computing
    • A home media server. Maybe a NAS, maybe a home built machine.
    • A non-internet connected computer
    • Anything VM related
    • Any server in the cloud.
    • FreeDOS
    • An embedded machine in a car that I can ssh in to that crosses state lines.
    • An OS that doesn’t have the concept of user accounts
    • Hobby OS development
    • Oddball hardware that has been made to work as a general purpose computer, like a Chrome stick, hard drive controller or iPod?

    It also looks like it applies to “covered application store” and from how that is defined, every public deb, apt, or yum repo is an application store, along with things like PyPI, crates.io, GitHub, and probably my own fucking git server that I share with some friends.

  • Because apparently JPEG-XL is still unsupported nearly everywhere

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  • It’s still my experience most times. I’m always quite surprised when some site that isn’t Google accepts a webp.

  • Live Dangerously

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  • I’m really curious as to what those features would be?

  • ...wasn't it supposed to be other way around?

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  • I’m pretty sure working with software is the other.

  • The Post-Work Pipe Dream

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  • A city I lived in had an “Adopt a storm drain” program, where you were supposed to check up on it and text them a photo after big storms. I took the one outside my house since it was available and did some cleanup a few times when it got clogged with branches and leaves. It was oddly satisfying.

  • The Post-Work Pipe Dream

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  • Can I come by and change all of the air filters in your cars and HVAC system? For some weird ass reason I find it very satisfying.

  • Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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  • Basically, yes, but there are only three speeds in common use. 10/100/1000M will be enough to support for basically every consumer device out there. 2.5G is starting to become common in routers and some desktop or high end docks, and 10G is starting to show up in high end prosumer devices, but they can usually also support at least 100/1000M. There isn’t much 10M gear still out there except in very specific industrial applications. Really, if your router supports 100/1000 it will cover 99% of the devices in the wild.

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • I’m a busy dad of two kids, so my play time is often fragmented and sporadic. There is a definite theme to mine.

    Red Dead Redemption 2. There is so much I really love about it, but there are just too many systems to deal with. Hygeine, hunger, fashion, crafting, camp chores, random ambush attacks by too many enemies, stealth, tracking, etc. If it was a bit more streamlined I’d probably love it.

    New Vegas. It’s the only Fallout I’ve played and I love it, up until inventory management takes more time than actually playing the game. I’ve made it to about the same point fiveish hours in three times.

    Skyrim. I really want to love this one as well, but has both the inventory management issues that New Vegas does, and the controls are just wonky enough that I have to relearn them when I get back to it.

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I really enjoyed it, up until I spent a precious uninterrupted hour and a half on a mission, only to die to something stupid just before the next save point. I know that it being Teh SupEr HaRdCorE is supposed to be part of the appeal, but I don’t have time for that shit.

  • Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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  • If the two sides don’t have a common speed, then it just doesn’t work.

  • Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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  • Support for older/slower connections does get dropped sometimes. I’ve seen devices that are 100/1000 only, and I had a fiber->ethernet box that only supported 1G/10G one one port, and 10/100/1000 on the other.

  • Time to uninstall krita (/s)

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  • Ah! Thank you for the detailed explanation so I can properly enjoy this joke.