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  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • You are right that operating system is not defined. But the definition of operating system provider is this: "(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device." (emphasis mine)

    Which should clearly exclude embedded devices.

    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • No doubt the law is hopeful and leaves out many details in regards to how such a system could/would/might be implemented.

    But I am not seeing anything in the law that would be unconstitutional. But I'm not a lawyer so what do I know.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • FYI, I am not a lawyer.

    Have you actually read the bill itself? Nowhere in it does it mention any of the things that you mentioned. It doesn't even mention ID cards at all.

    What it does say is operating system providers shall "Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device". What we should look out for is that the law does not forbid OS providers from requiring IDs.

    It does however require that OS providers "Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title." (emphasis mine)

    I wonder how much this is news outlets overreacting to a proposed bill that is not actually that bad, or if this is some marketing against the bill by some Corp.

    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • FYI, I am not a lawyer. This is just from my reading and ~10 minutes of analysis.

    From what I read in the bill, this is correct. Interestingly it specifies that developers shall not "Request more information from an operating system provider or a covered application store than the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title." But it does not have that provision for operating system providers. So OS providers could request additional information if they want.

    From what I understand this should prevent apps like Discord from requesting IDs unless they have" internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age [provided.]"

    Likely this means that for linux, since people will just move distros or fork if the OS provider tries to request more information, we would actually be more protected than windows users.

    I hesitate to make form an opinion on this until more experiences analysts chime in and we figure out how companies are lobbying on this. And in the worst case a ballot initiative will happen and people will kill this off.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Out of curiosity how do you test your restore? Do you just choose a file and try to recover it from backup? I have a synology NAS that I should backup but haven't really looked into the complexities of backing it up.

  • How to get into linux and stay with linux?

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  • I think bottles is the simplest that still lets you configure things. You can also do the trick with steam where you add the exe as a non-steam game.

  • How to get into linux and stay with linux?

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  • I agree with all of this except maybe the wine suggestion. Wine on its own, imo, is too complicated for new linux users.

    I would instead recommend looking at lutris (yes I know it is mostly games but it does have some software too) or bottles. Since these abstract away the manual management of wine prefixes.

  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • Without knowing what game you were having issues with I can't provide much help. I would first recommend checking https://protondb.com/ to see the games status and if other people are running into issues. Most of the fixes are as simple as just switching what proton version you are using. (if someone recommends using a GloriousEggroll (GE) version of Proton then look into the app proton-up-qt, on your software center).

    But I will admit many solutions on protondb are much more "involved".

    As far as non-steam suggestions. I would start with heroic games launcher. I have had a very easy time with playing games through HGL, either EpicGames or GoG.

    Outside of that, lutris is good. If you go to their website then there are one click installs for a bunch of games. This is mostly how I play things like battle.net games.

    Then on the technical side of things is bottles. But that is the much more "build it yourself" option.

  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • Even debian will let you download a Deb, double-click it in the file browser, and install it.

  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • If you are just doing word processing, browsing the web, and playing video games then absolutely. Yes.

    There have been gui tools available to install packages, configure networking/wifi, and manipulate files. For a long time now. Especially with the integration of Flatpak and snaps into gui-based package managers (like pop shop) it has become quite simple for any "regular", non-technical user to manage the basics and even the intermediates of any system (depending on the distro).

    Where things will likely fall short is with troubleshooting. But to solve that we would need to build something like the windows troubleshooter. But with so applications owned by so many different groups it would be difficult/near impossible to write a troubleshooter to integrate them together.

    Though I am also a bit of a hackerman so I probably also don't realize how much I use the terminal for normal things.

  • Anyone storing Markdown notes alongside their movie files?

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  • I've been using tiny media manager for this. It supports pulling information from a bunch of different providers. (there is a subscription) but for most basic use cases the free version is perfectly fine.

    Tmm won't do markdown, but it will do nfo files.

  • (cant find the aita community) am i a bad person for saying "women" instead of "people who can get pregnant"?

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  • This. Words are descriptive not prescriptive.

    As long as the person understood what you meant,which they almost certainly did as they corrected you, then the words that you used don't really matter.

    Note, this doesn't mean all words are inoffensive.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • Not OP. But I'll give my feedback on why I stopped using android auto.

    Let me preface this with most everything in the app is fine. Navigating around the interface is maybe a bit janky but not something that I couldn't get used to.

    The main thing that pushed me away from it is the constant crashing (crash every 1-3 minutes). I understand it to be a somewhat rare issue. But through my research I have not found any way to consistently solve the issue despite finding threads that were posted years ago.

    The closest I had come to a solution was to clear some app caches (like Google maps) and that would fix it for the next day or two. But it would always eventually go back to constant crashing. It just became too frustrating to deal with.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • God forbid anyone uses anyone else's art as a reference. /s

    The answer to your question is whether they drew the art/wrote the code themselves. Ie. Not tracing or just renaming variables.

  • Linux is awesome at home, but aren't y'all forced to use Windows at work?

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  • I use Mac at work :). Most of my group uses Mac with a few using windows. There have been some people who have tried using fedora but the support for some enterprise apps is just not there. But I do get to manage around 100 RHEL systems. So I still get plenty of linux time at work.

  • I made Qogir-style icons for Books, Build, and Games folders since the icon pack doesn't have them by default.

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  • This exactly. It feels like everything gets thrown in documents and then it just becomes one big mess. Game saves, coding projects. I've even seen some apps put their configs in Documents.

  • I made Qogir-style icons for Books, Build, and Games folders since the icon pack doesn't have them by default.

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  • I wish more icon packs had these sort of additional icons.

    I wish there were a few more default home directories like games and books. It would make me much more likely to use them overall.

  • What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • You don't need to install it to try it. Many distros will let you try the os while it is booted off of the usb. Ofc this doesn't give you all the functionality and you won't be able to save data. But you will at least see the performance is better.

  • Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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