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    [–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    If Linux people made Clippy, he probably wouldn't suck tho.

    [–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 7 points 9 hours ago

    It looks like you are trying to adjust the user settings. Would you like to RTFM?

    [–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    Welp, time to start drawing my own porn.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Are you over 18 to download Krita?

    [–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    I’ll compile from source

    yfw you find out getting access to a compiler requires an ID check

    keanu reeves losing his mouth in the matrix "unable to speak" scene

    [–] Beep@lemmus.org 2 points 9 hours ago

    Are you mature enough to compile Krita?

    [–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 19 hours ago

    So far none have that.

    This is fear mongering at its finest.

    Also, why go back to Windows when you can just switch distro?

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 47 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    What distros are actually planning on forcing users to verify their age? All I've heard is maybe adding a optional field for date of birth.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

    I don't know but I expect it from corporate distros like Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse.

    I don't think community distros would ever do something like that (despite all the drama going with arch).

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    despite all the drama going with arch

    Wots this then? I haven't paid attention since the power source of my tower turned into a smoke machine.

    [–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

    lol silly bollockses.

    [–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    It always starts optional. There's no verification yet but many believe it will be a matter of time.

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    Yeah I mean I'm not defending this bullshit. I think its all stupid, unnecessary and it doesn't do shit to pRoTeCt ThE cHiLdrEn.

    I wasn't really commenting on any of that, just asking if there's any that do actual verification yet.

    [–] dorumon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

    No no you see when this does get implemented and it will. Years later when they ask for a cryptographic signature verifying your age on Linux. Fucking Haiku will be the next big thing alongside Plan 9 Front. Its just how the cookie crumbles.

    [–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    Fucking Haiku sounds interesting.

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

    It doesn't get more hipster than the open source equivalent for the original alternative OS for PowerPC Macs (BeOS). The BeOS guys might still have been kicking around if Steve Jobs didn't come back to Apple

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux is open source, it's always optional. On the other hand, if it becomes necessary in order to access popular web content, some users will demand it.

    [–] atropa@piefed.social 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    So we leave popular web content , like Reddit and start again with fediverse .

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    Sure, that's what I'll do. But the cool thing about open software is people can do whatever they want with it.

    [–] atropa@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

    I only use open source, windows 7 was the last operating system I used before I switched to linux.

    Last year I started removing google and switching my phone to grapheneOs, will in no way go back to microsoft and Co

    [–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

    None, lol. RHEL maybe.

    [–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 24 points 20 hours ago

    ...as if windows will be any better...?

    [–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    I was born on 1 January 1970 as the elders of the internet intended

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    You know The elders of the internet?

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

    I met Al Gore as a kid, does that count?

    [–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    When you were a kid or when he was?

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

    After he invented the internet

    [–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 18 hours ago

    Yes, and they're very impressed by you winning employee of the month

    [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

    My distro(s) haven't done that yet. But the moment they do I'm distro hopping again.

    [–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago
    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    Just edit the file to say verification = true?

    [–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

    Better yet, make a cron that rotates the DoB daily

    [–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago

    I'd rather burn my computer.

    [–] richie_golds@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

    Garuda Linux at least, appears to be intending to not implement age verification.