Linux age verification is insane

rn I'm a windowsfug, I can't decide if I should install linux (which? fuk if I know) before this manages to get rolled out into everything, or just cook in the pot.

I heard a guy in a video say "this is just the start. first they ask you to just self identify your age. then they go to lawmakers and say 'look, we tried! but people just kept lying, so we need to require proof', and then the real fun begins"
but, I'll become a luddite before I give my deets to anyone that isn't my bank or the government itself. I don't need to scan my ID to file my taxes. though saying that, soon we might have to lol. the US seems a little behind when it comes to government and tech, in countries like Brazil you can make a single account and access all your deets, from seeing your retirement benefits to your tax stuff... and it has a handy app, and I'm still waiting on fednow/ instant federally facilitated money transfers...

not that brazil is a high quality country btw. and I'm sure there are better examples.

where was i going with this

oh, everyone unwilling to take a step back from the mainstream is gonna be coughing up their I'd

also sorry for replying to all your posts. it's just you're talking about things I'm interested in xD

I agree,and I go further by saying that nothing done by governments is for the good of the people; quite the opposite..everything is being done to control them. Welcome to 1984 and to Big Brother!

What surprises me is that almost all Western countries are rapidly passing these bills. Where has legislative democracy in the West gone? Or did it never really exist in the first place?

This is the time to double down on privacy or give up on it completely. It's obviously all coordinated and happening as part of a global agenda and world government. Very few countries and states are going to be able to resist what's coming.

As far as which Linux version to install, hard to say but you can at least see all the ones that accept Monero donations and make up your mind from there. Maybe Qubes? We are running a poll on X now.

is like i waking up from a couple weeks long coma...
and all of the sudden those americans wanna change the laws for everyone in the world on how their computer should track them, like what LOL

it just seems like a continuation of the push for digital id and all that which been happening since 2020
(and before that people saying that was the 9/11 thing that triggered all those mass surveillance things...)

like, its not about asking the age or whatever, it's literally just adding yet an other identifier to fingerprint people...
browser fingerprint is already a pain in the butt.... like, yea sure disable javascript and all good but then the youtubes or whatever not working so....

This is the time to double down on privacy or give up on it completely. It's obviously all coordinated

i guess it pretty much up to the cipherpunks to keep building the whole ecosystem then...
if all the big linux distros being pussy ass bitches and complying or whatever
then we'll need a big "underground" distro without the integrated digital id thing lol

and if the internet as a whole, all the apps and erything starts requiring the operating system to still support that retarded american law thing, with for example not working if not complying...
then the opensource ecosystem as a whole will need to step up and keep building outside that craziness that happening in the americas lol

the cringe tho... the big distros that exploring the possibilities on how to implement it
(literally doing the lawmakers work for them...)
instead of defaulting to "not gonna comply anyways, waste of time exploring those possibilities"
like, they literally wasting time figuring out how to implement it, rather than spending time on how to circumvent it... that's retarded
if some lawmakers in an other country (the americas) wanna change how the computers in the world should work, then they should figure it out themselves, but nah, the big distros wanna be compliant and wear the mask and do the jab and get that digital id into the kernel or somethin lmao
cringe, literally cringe

and apparently....
it's meta/facebook that been doing the push for that.... spending millions of dollars to change the laws....

hey, kinda similar on how the cryptoregulations happening too lol
https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/r2tbs6/no_the_fca_has_not_issued_monerospecific_guidance/hm902ih/

well now it seems kinda similar with meta/facebook pushing for the digital id / age thing lol

@monerica Nice list; I would second a Artix recommendation even for a newbie. Is there any documentation on what distrobutions explicitly declined XMR?

You'll face a bit of a steeper learning curve than you would with something like Mint, but at least you won't have to unlearn SystemD habits.

I remember when I first went away from SystemD-based distrobutions everything finally "clicked" for me.

damn, am few weeks behind on catching up with the xenu/antimoonboy podcast thingies

kinda been enjoying arch tho... i mean, pretty much all the distros i used been systemd based too...
so far arch linux still been silent: https://agelesslinux.org/distros.html
so asked the llm for recomendations:

The closest Arch-based alternative to Arch that doesn't use systemd is Artix Linux.
Distro Init
Artix Linux OpenRC, runit, s6, dinit
Artix Linux is:

• Arch-based (uses pacman)
• Rolling release
• Offers choice of init systems (default: OpenRC)
• Well-documented with active community
• Supports all Arch repos plus AUR
  Other notable alternatives:
• Void Linux - Independent distro with runit, quite popular among enthusiasts
• Gentoo - Uses OpenRC, extremely customizable
• Alpine Linux - Uses OpenRC, known for containers
  For pure Arch derivatives without systemd, Artix is the most established option that's comparable to Arch in terms of community size and package availability.

so while Arch still silent so far on that, it's still systemd based sadly...

and well, Qubes also systemd based...
Artix sounds good tho, but i literally in the middle of somethin right now for a bit and is stable so... but next system re-install will probably be Artix then