Its multiple states plus some countries too.
But anyway the law as it stand is not problematic to any one. When installing an OS and asked for birth date put any random date.
If the law require actual verification or make it illegal - for you as a user - to provide false date then its fascist in my book
Your point was around age verification which I am saying systemd’s update doesn’t do such thing
Its similar but not the same. Original was for input birthdate but this one is for specify general age group
if I’m not mistaken the systemd PR implementing the birthdate change is closed wihout the code being merged. For now. it was merged and another pull request was created to revert that change. that pull request was closed.
To be clear the code went into the repo
Think of the boiling frog metaphore.
You’re saying - if I get you right - that if we let systemd add birthdate field today, tomorrow or after tomorrow we won’t revolt if we have to upload an ID to install an OS.
I respectfully disagree. I have a clear red line which is “don’t force me to do stuff”.
You want to add an optional field? I couldn’t care less.
You want me to input my valid birthdate or I can’t use your system. That’s when I revolt.
so you want them to comply after the deadline?
I think xdg-desktop protocol was already rejected
I know there is a lot of misleading information online regarding this matter so please allow me to write down my version and feel free to correct me.
The law - as it is now - doesn’t require any actual verification, it just wants OS to require users to provide a birth date. You - as a user - can put whatever date your heart desire. The purpose is that parents performing OS setup for their children could input their correct date of birth so that apps know that a minor is using the PC not an Adult.
Systemd provides field for you to store your birth date. It is an optional field and it will obviously be blank in your system unless you dig around to find out how to set it.
The ones who would enforce the date of birth thing is installers of various Linux distribution who wish to comply. ArchLinux has an open merge request that would require providing a birth date (again no verification, you put what you want)
Happy to provide links to support any of my claims above
what difference does it make to you if you don’t mind me asking
The easiest solution is to format windows partition and mount it as separate mount point (for example /mnt/extra) and use it for storing any large files you have (movies, songs, books, photos, backups, downloaded files …)