aurelar

joined 10 months ago
[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Practically speaking, people already have cell phones that are impossible to own, because in many cases, users are not allowed to unlock the bootloaders of their phones.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

They look grey to me tbh.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

They'd have to. It would be the only way to make the changes uniform across distros. And of course, we could always use the unmodified version.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Me, using 8 bit adders to make my own CPU because everything else is now locked down to all hell

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What about distros that don't use automated account creation (or have optional automation), like Arch for example or Gentoo? The law isn't made to accommodate those people:

"Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store."

The odd thing is the wording that it "requires" an account holder to indicate age or DOB. As with anything *nix, there is always a workaround. There is no way to require anything of the user. There's also no definition for "accessible interface."

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

That's my guess. These people have no clue what they're doing.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Technically, Linux is not an operating system, just a kernel, so I'm not sure how this would be implemented.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well you don't "scan" a book that's already digital.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The fact that they destroyed the books is the most reprehensible thing to me. They could have resold or donated those books to libraries. Instead, they chose the ugliest and most wasteful thing they could possibly do. Despicable.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Or you could .... Delete Windows too. Or only run it in a VM.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't use Windows, except in a VM as absolutely necessary. Problem solved.

[–] aurelar@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I'm not having any of it.

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