They look grey to me tbh.

They’d have to. It would be the only way to make the changes uniform across distros. And of course, we could always use the unmodified version.

Me, using 8 bit adders to make my own CPU because everything else is now locked down to all hell

What about distros that don’t use automated account creation (or have optional automation), like Arch for example or Gentoo? The law isn’t made to accommodate those people:

“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 for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.”

The odd thing is the wording that it “requires” an account holder to indicate age or DOB. As with anything *nix, there is always a workaround. There is no way to require anything of the user. There’s also no definition for “accessible interface.”

That’s my guess. These people have no clue what they’re doing.

Technically, Linux is not an operating system, just a kernel, so I’m not sure how this would be implemented.

Well you don’t “scan” a book that’s already digital.

The fact that they destroyed the books is the most reprehensible thing to me. They could have resold or donated those books to libraries. Instead, they chose the ugliest and most wasteful thing they could possibly do. Despicable.

Or you could … Delete Windows too. Or only run it in a VM.

I don’t use Windows, except in a VM as absolutely necessary. Problem solved.

Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I’m not having any of it.

So you can spend more time working shit jobs for shit pay. Aren’t you happy? 😊

That would make too much sense.

So, the German police are the Stasi?

If the tech works as it should, that’s what I care about the most.

This is a very clever catch and very true. I didn’t think of this.

It would be par for the course if they just ignored the settings changes when it comes to training their AI on your data, and you’re just turning off your access to the AI features instead.

Thanks for making it easy, friend. It takes a lot of clicking to turn this stuff off lol.

Why the fuck would a McDonald’s app care?

Apparently 96% of elementary school children now have laptops they take home from school? I’m glad I grew up in an era when we all had our own computers not owned by the government. 😂 It seems like absolute hell to be a kid these days. Constantly monitored and tracked by adults who want you to remain pure and innocent forever, not allowed to grow or explore anything on your own. And they wonder why kids aren’t independent and don’t want to learn anything.