So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware

Linux can run on macbooks, you can probably look up the model online and see if it has good support. I used to run debian on a macbook, though that macbook was from 2013 or something like that.

On the other hand, if you can sell your macbook and get more than a good thinkpad (for your use) is selling for, I would do that.

"Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO"

"Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation"

Fuck Trump tho am I rite?

The air model has a M4 chip. Fedora, Whonix and Quebo doesn't support... I'll wait for another months.

How would they have to pay any fines if they simply say we are no longer for use in xyz place doing age verification?

Second, how would payment be enforced when there is no organization to fine?

Yes but Trump isn't the one doing the age verification mandates

Well...I dunno. I don't think you're crazy or anything, I'm sure there are some who absolutely do want to do that. But they've been trying to get rid of digital piracy for thirty years and haven't made any headway, so I'm dubious about how well that would work.

I see you too were born on January 1st 1970.

Phone companies are required to collect and retain IDing info of customers to activate a phone number in Australia. There's no way around it unfortunately

oh i'm not in California, I'm in Egypt. I'm waist deep in denial.

where do you think they got the database for their porn generating llms?

Only because, up to this point, we've been successful at pushing back against this tyranny. But make no mistake: that is the real goal of this "age verification" bullshit.

I'm in canada!

If you ever thought Gavin was anti-Trump, I have news for you 😄

Majority will accept it, they dont care and governments and corpos like this

Eventually: must be in Antarctica to use this distro

Forgive my confusion but could they not choose to lock out web traffic without a verification? Lets say your ISP joins and says that you need x bullshit token from the government to us it, then what?

Oh he's anti-Trump alright. But that's just meaning that he wants to take Trump's place.

To be clear, these are Apple users. Most of them will take just about any abuse Apple is willing to throw their way.

For sure. Majority of people will happilly take a selfy and send it to whatever company without a second thought.

Pretty much yeah

I just hope this doesnt impact macos until the end of the year, then I will be able to move to linux on my laptop.

I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life

It's time to grow up.

You think this isn't coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what's the alternative?

I just installed Graphene OS on my Pixel 6 yesterday and it runs like a champ. You should be able to pick up a used Pixel 6 or newer for pretty cheap as another option

Can you try to send an explicit image while offline?

I love how big corp is already ready. It's almost as if they somehow knew all along that all the govs with bribable legislators would be making laws they all seemed to arbitrarily adopt at once. Can't wait for the shill AI slop response to this comment making it seem like a good idea.

Which do y'all think is worse? [Serious]

So what's actually going on in Cali for them to have such a douchebag governor?

i use fedora asahi remix with kde on M1, so far it's great except the battery life is not as good as in macos but i don't care ... finally i escaped the shitty glass design among other shitty things apple does... and have been using Grephene for more than a year, It's honestly the most stable, seamless OS i tried, the kind of OS that just works and doesn't annoy you. imo even better than ios !

Something in gut hub can still be "in development." Nobody has to comply with every regulation before they are finished. Goddamn these vultures. They've been nonstop since SOPA and PIPA back in 2010 or whenever.

You think google wont do this?

It's awesome. Welcome!

You know they want to impose age verification on Linux as well right?
Linux is still the way to go, but I am so not ok with what they ate trying to do.

I don't do serious, sorry

You elected the government and regulator who caused this. Make sure it doesn't happen again.

Probably strong influence from corporations, billionaires, other wealthy people, and NIMBYs, along with fearmongering from establishment media to distract from actual problems. And Democrats realizing they can't win on a pro-genocide platform so now they have to at least pretend to give a shit.

Doesn't that mean that the application will not have to do the verification itself, but just ask the OS?

its been 4 months and I am not regret about my switch to GrapheneOS. The only thing that can make this 100% perfect is creating a Google account that does not tie to your phone number.

I sure as hell didn't vote for them. But regardless of the government these laws always seem to have bipartisan support. I've avoided this crap so far with VPNs and fake IDs but something baked into the OS like this I haven't been able to fool. Yet

So you need a phone number these days? That's something I've read a lot of mixed reports about

Some people in tier 1 cities don't live like that, but the vast majority do. As an average person, you would not enjoy China more than your western country.

yes some Play store apps are country specific so instead of switching my default country, which stupid Google only allows 1 per year btw, I want to create different profiles with different Google accounts. You cannot do that without showing that these accounts belong to whichever phone number you have

in some cases where they have good enough info about you already (creating from an android phone that isn't "fishy" enough, etc), you can create a google acc without associating a phone number, at least it's not shown on the google account info menu.

This isnt where I parked my car.

I know this isn't the point of the article, but I'm starting to get really pissy about software updates implementing high-level non-security related changes to my fucking fully paid for device!

It doesn't do anything but I'm starting to refuse to agree to any new user agreements.

It's pretty much nothing.

I have 3 different AI agents that were forced onto my phone between Google, Samsung, and Microsoft.

It'll be baked into the ToS somewhere but I agree it's bullshit. Years ago I bought a youtuber downloader app (I know I should've just used yt-dl) and they released an update that removed support for half the websites and locked them behind a new higher-priced tier. None of it was mentioned in the changelog, just a prompt that came up after you'd installed the new build. I was able to reinstall the previous version and keep using it but I was still so pissed off

You don't need ID to buy a sim in the US or UK, or most countries in fact.
Most sims in Australia are pre-paid, not contract.

The dream is over. The internet and technology are over. It was fun while it lasted, and it is time to re-adapt to a reality without dependence on 100% privacy invading surveillance.