honest conversation will not supervise the kid while you are away, and we are not living in a fairy tale where kids just magically behave.

except if you can be a stay at home parent to do this manually.

I don’t think fedora has unique requirements for user info

What problem does this even solve? On Linux, what app would even be asking how old you are? Web browsers for sure, and maybe electron apps like Discord? But what else is there?

I’m on Bazzite (based on Fedora). I’m comfy

well, the app catalog, steam, certain games, …

tbh parental controls would be useful to have. you can’t be watching every minute if they are doing something inappropriate. usage time limits are also useful.

why are people so much against tools? we are so afraid of the slippery slope that we don’t even consider to accept legitimately useful optional tools

can we acknowledge that what happens on the internet today is harmful to children? now, you either properly set up limits for them, or cut their access, if you want any good.

that downvoter really could have instead done something useful and explain what “format as table” is

btw, libreoffice calc supports python macros, so you don’t need to choose between the two

it was partly made for mathematicians who did not know how to develop software, but also for education. so I guess it’s a good starter language. but it allows doing way too much things that will be very confusing when overused

except that they don’t even know about the existence of the open tech, and that they are too complicaaaateeeed

but it is not even that old, is it? how did they end up on teams?

but it is not even that old, is it? how did they end up on teams?

teams? with family? why?

but does ISP provided equipment count as consumer grade?

TIL that a single ’ is a feet. but what’s a "?

do you mean there is a known upcoming change in signal?

linux users are allowed to watch the show in compressed 720p. that’s it.

Applications can then ask, “is the current user over 18?” And just gets true/false.

the current implementation allows reading the precise age

ah yeah because all of our digital clocks, smartphones, smart watches, microwaves, washing machines, TVs, and… what else stores user age in a standardized manner? oh, you say none of these and no other things either?

and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

aren’t they? last time I checked any browser on linux had artificial problems with playing DRM content from streaming platforms

very few people use signal

exFAT then

The question is: What privacy do I loose by signing up to Signal with a phone number instead of hypothetically a username.

if you could sign up with a username, your account couldn’t be linked to a real world identity. also the government wouldn’t have a phone number to send state malware to (unlike signal the telephony system is full of security vulnerabilities)

If you are being monitored, they know your phone number.

if you personally are monitored then yes they know your phone number. but here it’s the other way around. you became a person of interest because you use signal.

If you are not being monitored, nobody knows you are using Signal.

no. everybody who has the power to issue data requests to signal, and also has access to a database binding phone numbers to identities, knows that you are using signal.