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Any linux distro that implements it, will probably lose all desktop users

False.

Not only normies are going to provide all the IDs asked along with anus scans, but they sincerely do not understand what's wrong with that.


I would agree with you given we were talking about MacOS or Windows. Who knows, that may come later. If this was a more consumer-focused niche linux distro like SteamOS, I would also be concerned for the same reason.

But this is a general purpose desktop linux distro. A common, beginners-choice option, but still an option placing the user in a pretty rare breed. This isn't to game cheaply on a Steam Deck they bought, this is a choice to either build a PC ignoring the buy prompts for "Remember the windows license!", or choosing to overwrite the preinstalled OS on your laptop/PC.

The venn diagram of anus-scan-accepters and regular ubuntu users is simply two distant circles.


They're not asking for IDs. The user simply has to declare their age. I'm not happy about any of this, but there is no "verification."

It sure sounds like there's no liability if the user lies: "An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user's age range..."


> They're not asking for IDs

For now. But before you know you will have to fully KYC yourself before using any OS and you will not be allowed to boot your Linux of modify any of the binaries.

And before you laugh it off, let me remind you that this very topic of conversation we are having here would sound as ridiculous just a year ago.


No normies would use Linux desktop not against their will.

And how many of them are using desktop Linux?

I will never understand why people don't just give OpenClaw instances their own set of credentials, that are limited, like you would a newbie employee.

Or even more limiting, use proxies, for instance when setting up the LLM connection instead of giving it the OpenRouter, OpenAI api keys directly, give it access via proxy that is running on a machine next to it.


Not the 1st of April yet, so makes sense the prices haven't changed yet

I believe home assistant, is/was working on a physical products for this, but no idea if it available yet

I will never understand the whole lets shine a light at the display, people put on top of their monitors

to me, it was helpful for night sessions, as I didn't have good light that would be too strong. This one does not shine into screen, so it's good for the eyes. But certainly not a must or anything you need.

Isn't it better to have light on the back of the screen? Like illuminating the wall slightly?

maybe, but then I don't see my keys or stuff on the table. It dims automatically and has different color temperatures. It's practical, I don't have space behind my desk, and it's not that expensive. I didn't thought too much about it actually, when I bought it :)

pff, the whole footer is just links pointing to '#'


sorry, i'm very focused on building the product and the website is in progress. will fix!


fixed! thanks


you will want to improve handling bad formatting, a .env file will likely pass right through, the samples I tried with went straight through unmodified


Would you mind trying again on the web app, I've released a new version for chrome extension but it's pending review currently. (same for Firefox)


i see what you mean, thanks for the feedback :)


I sent it with a fake email with his own name, so eh


to my knowledge all the major userscript extensions, at least allow watching for file changes so you don't have to copy it manually, so you can just refresh the page to test


this is why a lot of people run arch and why valve based steamOS on arch instead of debian as the previous version was, you need a newer kernel and other packages to really play games on linux with the least friction possible


thats not a kernel issue its an anti cheat issue. No kernel except the windows kernel is going to allow him to play battlefield and cod.


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