A step in the right direction…
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Um, why is age verification needed at all in any personal OS?
A question for the ages…
A question about your ages.
A question about your pages
Won’t someone please think of the children?!
Of whom we require photographs… for reasons.
So they can data breach it with no reprocuaions.
The rough idea is that services like social media, apps, etc. don’t want to have to implement age verification and be held liable if they get it wrong. Instead, their preference is that the OS just tell them what age category to use and then they trust it.
IMO setting my age once during account creation sounds 100x better than having to scan my face and ID for every online service I use, so if I have to choose between these options I actually prefer the OS one. Probably though we’ll get both - i.e. OS will want our age AND online services will expect our ID.
Age verification is evil. We need to take this and run with ut
Operating system open source exemption, but not open source app exemption
Ok, that’s it. Asahi project, I hope you get to the M4 chip soon, and I gotta figure out how to got Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign running on Linux. :/
It’s been real, macOS, but if you card me, I can only say “fuck you”
Edit: and for all of those kind souls who wish to offer me Adobe alternatives: as a professional who has to use these Adobe apps everyday: they are really is no alternative. But thank you very much for your effort.
However, anyway, if you can help me to get any Adobe cc apps running in Linux, I will be eternally grateful— grateful enough to reveal how I’ve been getting them for free for 35 years. (it’s stupidly, easy, so easy that I don’t want to publish it and expose my loophole)
But it is both super easy and super legal— I found an easy and reliable way to game the free trial system. and I have been using it for decades.
I haven’t tried this yet myself, but it’s a project I’ve been keeping a fairly anticipatory eye on: https://github.com/PhialsBasement/wine-adobe-installers/
Oooo! Now that’s some hot shit
Isn’t there some BSD stuff in Macs? Is it enough to get the exemption?
Sadly no. macOS (or, more specifically, NeXTSTEP) was originally based on BSD, but it has its own proprietary microkernel (Mach, now called Darwin), making it different enough that it is no longer considered a BSD distro (more like a sibling nowadays), despite being fully POSIX-compliant and UNIX certified.
In 1996, Apple Computer acquired NeXT and used NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP as the foundation for Mac OS X (later macOS). Its technologies continue to form the basis of Darwin, the core operating system underlying macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
It might be interesting to see if Apple attempts to slide in under that exemption anyway, but I doubt they would even try.
Is it the right direction if you’ll be unable to visit websites without having OS age verification?
Websites not worth visiting IMO
It would kill Linux adoption, though.
Although I’m sure Ubuntu and Red Hat are already working on implementing it.
That’s why god made a VPN. Come in from outside the country and it bypasses it all.
