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I'm only upvoting this to help visibility to others that sort/browse by Hot/Top/Popular or whatever.
This is a disgrace to Linux!
https://agelesslinux.org/
Why is it a disgrace? Systemd is open source; you can fork it to ignore the field, or hard-code the value if you want.
This lets OS vendors/developers distribute Linux Oses that want to support this in countries that demand it, after which anyone can modify it however they want.
Yeah that sounds fun, read through a million lines of code to tweak a few constants and variables, because you can't access the internet anymore to research the code before you fix the code yourself?
What's the end game here?
That's...
That's how open source software works
Somebody noticed their boot time was very slightly longer so they read through a million lines of code and found the zx exploit.
True, but I don't exactly have a spare system to experiment with like that, and I ain't about to mess with my stable Linux Mint laptop all that much.
Though agelesslinux definitely seems like a fair game tweak script..
How did you obtain your linux install media without internet? And why did you choose one that doesn't already have it disabled? And why would you ever put your real dob into it?
End game is to keep systemd OSes legal, even in stupid countries.
I obtained my Linux install media before this shit came into question. My current daily laptop runner is Linux Mint MATE 20.3 Una.
I don't exactly reinstall or update every time updates come out, I wait and see..
And yes, my distro uses systemd, but I ain't about to update what works for me until I sort out the fallout of all this shit.