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

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=DcwPE0LIfdg

well i guess Artix is the distro that found consensus in the monero community lol
still also opened to suggestions for different setups, since been having a mix of ubuntu & arch, now could be artix & something else i guess

well and grapheneOS on mobile anyways
(which on that, the motorola partnership thing, that news was craziness when it dropped O_O)

@avarice

(he doing an Artix install from start to end in a virtual machine thing)

:O

TIL the mullvad app does use Kyber-512 for the quantum resistance thing :O
that's literally what i wanted to use on the proof of concept webgl game thing lol

anyways, adhd af, been like "ok but what would it be like a linux distro thats kind of a mix between qubes for isolation design type thing and artix for like arch-like performances or whatever specifically to host all the things but comparmentalized and whatnot:

• game server
• monerod server (node)
• LLM server

so been checking on the actual NUMA/IOMMU mapping for this specific rig, so could pin this and that

Note: This is a single NUMA node system. The README's "NUMA affinity pinned" is actually core pinning, not NUMA pinning. All RAM is on node0.

Core Pinning Strategy (Corrected)

The original plan "game server = cores 0-15, LLM = cores 16-31" has a critical flaw: it places SMT siblings (core 0 and core 16) in different workloads, causing contention.
Recommended odd/even split:

Game Server:  cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14  (odd cores from first half)
LLM Inference: cores 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 (even cores from first half)
Desktop:      cores 16-31 (second half, shared)
I/O:          cores 0, 16 (keep interrupts on separate cores)

This avoids SMT sibling contention while keeping all RAM on one node.

IOMMU Groups — Critical for VFIO Passthrough

IOMMU Group	Devices	VFIO Passthrough Feasibility
Group 19	c2:00.0 — Radeon 8060S (iGPU)	❌ Cannot passthrough alone
Group 20	c2:00.1 — GPU Audio	Part of same physical GPU as Group 19
Group 21	c2:00.2 — Encryption controller (CCP)	Part of same physical GPU
Group 22	c2:00.4 — USB 3.1 xHCI	Part of same physical GPU
Group 23	c2:00.6 — Ryzen HD Audio	Part of same physical GPU
Group 24	c3:00.0 — Strix Halo PCIe Dummy	Separate — can be bound to vfio-pci
Group 25	c3:00.1 — NPU (Neural Processing)	Separate — can be bound to vfio-pci
Group 26-30	c4:00.x — USB4/USB controllers	Multiple groups — can be split
Key finding: Groups 19-23 are all the same physical device (the iGPU). You cannot VFIO-passthrough the GPU without also passing the USB controller, audio, and encryption controller attached to it. This is the "IOMMU group sharing" problem.
IOMMU caveat: AMD APU iGPU shares IOMMU group with USB/audio controllers. Full VFIO passthrough requires kernel patches (iommu=soft). Workaround: host ROCm for LLM, VirtIO GPU for VM display.
NPU isolation: Group 25 (c3:00.1) can be bound to vfio-pci if you want to isolate the Ryzen AI NPU from the host for VM use.

so tldr, no clue wtf even any of what, looks fun for later tho, like, way way later
and by linux kernel 7.1 thing all the features i need for that project should be fully working (which apparently right now giga optimized support for nested KVM is just "partial" in 6.18 LTS or 6.19 hardened
and for next linux LTS kernel thing, estimation was like for version 7.6 so targetting that as the main kernel version for the custom linux from scratch OS thing type thing idk what even am doing stg lmao, fun documentation tho i guess...