Contact your representative

Right, so that they can ask if I’m stoned or stupid for asking them to affect laws in another country?

It’s being added as a response to the age verification laws with the intended purpose to provide the age signal.

It’s age verification/attestation.

I was ambivalent about systemd up until now. If this gets merged I’m moving to a non-systemd distro. I do not live in California or even the USA. I do not want age verification garbage in my OS.

I guess we all need hobbies.

I guess you missed the part where I replied to you that nearly all my Lemmy comments are done from my phone.

Readings hard, huh?

Nah, I just have a life and only do quick replies to you while I’m in the washroom. Otherwise, I’m doing more useful things like everything else.

you most likely fall into some category of Luddite, hanging on to your PC

Ya, all the companies that design and make the smartphones and their OSes must be Luddites also, because they all use PCs to do that.

thinking your PC isn’t also a tool for spying on you

Mine isn’t. Perhaps it’s time for a modern and free operating system.

I’m sorry I interrupted you. You may continue screeching.

You must be a troll.

They’re getting downvoted because of the condescending tone and blind and ignorant assumptions. That comment deserves all the downvotes.

You have options that are infinitely more efficient and less annoying than babysitting a PC.

I get personal preferences, but saying the words “more efficient than babysitting a PC” is on a whole new level.

I guarantee I can type faster on a full keyboard than you can even talk and can simply get things done faster and more efficiently on a computer than you can on any mobile device.

At some point you must face the question: Are you using a PC because it’s how you’ve always done it?

No, I don’t have to face that question, because you have no idea how old I am. You’re blindly assuming that I only started using mobile devices well into adulthood, and you’d be wrong.

My keyboard works just fine. I’m sorry yours doesn’t.

I didn’t say my keyboard “doesn’t work”, I said “sucks”. The difference in ergonomics between a (relatively) tiny mobile touchscreen keyboard and a full sized mechanical keyboard is like comparing a 40w lightbulb to the sun.

At some point you must face the question: Are you using a phone instead of a PC because it’s how you’ve always done it?

Edit: to be clear, both of these comments (and 99% of my comments on Lemmy) are all done with my phone using the keyboard that “sucks”.

Irrelevant to my point

The idea that one of these is vastly and objectively superior to all others is just pseudo-religious nonsense.

You can get a job and make a living in just about any country. But the quality of life differences and how comfortable of a living you can make are gonna be vastly different.

I hate using a phone. It’s small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can’t have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).

A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.

trying to solve a parenting problem with technology

That was never the goal, just the excuse.

Gonna be weird to age verify yourself to use a smart thermostat.

Why is it CALLED intelligent?

Because it is “intelligent” by definition. You’re conflating the word with “highly intelligent” or just “smart”.

Dogs are “intelligent” but can’t they write code, but we sometimes refer to dogs as “smart”.

A flatworm has intelligence but no one would call it smart.

Is that the show with the liars and thieves?

Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more?

Steam Machine?

you might find a priest that tells you to stop smoking for your health no matter how you phrase the question about lighting up and prayer. What people are receptive to is going to vary.

Ya, I’ve read the thing about praying and smoking in another comment. The funny thing is that I have very specific opinions about smoking and would argue that smoking while praying is disrespectful, but God would listen in any case.

Are we surprised some people’s thought processes and decision making might turn extreme when exposed to this?

Yes, actually. I’m not doubting the power of language, but I cannot ever see something anyone ever says alter my sense of reality or right from wrong.

I had a “friend” say to me recently “why do you always go against the grain?” My reply was “I will go against the grain for the rest of my life if it means doing or saying what’s right”.

I guess my point is that I have a very hard time relating to this.

Would you also claim the diesel cars are worthless because you can’t use regular gas in them? No, I thought so

Photoshop is trash.

Minecraft works just fine (it’s Java for crying out loud)

Steam works natively. Valve’s most popular hardware device runs Linux.

Media player classic

You want to use a garbage Windows built-in application on Linux?

without having to deal with work around and terminal garbage as easy as I can windows?

Two things here;

1. You can get around on Linux without a terminal

2. The terminal is king in functionality

3. Windows requires a command line for many things also, this isn’t a Linux only thing

If you come to Linux expecting it to work like Windows and run all Windows applications, then you’re setting yourself up for failure with bad-faith expectations.