This is perhaps a controversial statement from someone who is fed up with all this age verification stuff, but having the user age be set on account creation (without providing ID or anything dumb like that) doesn’t seem that bad.

It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Instead of having to roll their own age verification stuff, software like Discord can rely on the UserAccountStorage value.

If it were possible to plug into a browser in a standard, privacy conscious way, it also reduces the need for third party parental control browser extensions, which I imagine can be a bit sketchy.

OSes collect and expose language and locale information anyway. What harm is age bands in addition to that?

I like having a system I know the internals of and can control.

But honestly, nowadays the software quality of Windows is just… Bad.

Instead, AerynOS leans into a tightly integrated, curated desktop experience.

This is (as far as I can tell) the unique feature the article touts. Even though that fits Mint, Ubuntu and I think Fedora.

Over the years, I’ve just come to accept that, no matter the OS, there are just some things computers suck at. Working with hardware is one of them.

I think even a normal scroll wheel goes in different directions between both Windows and Mac.

It’s still technically automaton if your workflow depends on people poking you when things break.

I don’t think those are sufficient. We could prove that a given binary can be produced from a given repo commit, but that doesn’t actually ensure that the code itself is safe. Malicious code is malicious code even if it’s reproducible.

Consider using Ventoy if you want to try out multiple distros. It just lets you put the isos into a folder on the flash drive rather than going through the whole imaging process each time.

I’d say dual booting would be best, as much as Windows will try to break it. Then you can stay in Linux as much as you can, only switching to Windows when you need to. And then, if you’re like me, you get annoyed at Windows lacking features and find alternatives that work under Linux.

For distro selection, I’d recommend Linux Mint. It just works well out of the box and most instructions online that apply to Ubuntu should work with it.

I think the home directory version of etc is ~/.config as per xdg.

Obligatory “why does this need to use neural-network AI”.

Either tag the image in whatever software you use to write your articles, or detect when an image has a white background.

https://github.com/Sharkord/sharkord/issues/86 This one seems pretty bad.

Microwaves were the future of cooking. Look at how that turned out.

Why would one use this rather than just using something like Matrix or self-hosted Stoat? I’m not sure what it being “Discord compatible” really gets this project. Bot compatibility is nice, but aren’t most Discord bots closed source anyway?

I’ve been using Hetzner boxes for my backups, although I did need to send them a copy of my id, which may or may not fit the paranoia thing.

Of course, encryption is always worth it.

So how are you going to fund this “global media campaign”?

Someone should vibe code something for that project…

By which I mean add buttplug.io support.

Until recently they didn’t have support for alternate keyboard layouts, but that seems to have been fixed in 6.6. Tried it again, and there’s a few missing theming features such as window decorations being adwaita-ey and my cursor theme not working.

Cinnamon user here. I wish I could use Wayland. ;_;

If you’re going to add Mint repos anyway, why not just use LMDE or Mint instead of Debian? It probably would avoid strange version mismatch issues.