The installation process is intimidating for a lot of people.

I taught a friend Linux using the Arch install process.

They use EndevourOS because installation took 15 minutes instead of 3 hours.

I don’t like the Meta camera glasses because the feeds go directly to a company who have every incentive to spy on the footage and sell the results to whoever can clear an ACH transaction.

The creepiness is that Meta sees everything that is recorded. We already live in a world where everyone carries multiple cameras at all times, having a new class of wearable won’t appreciably change that.

On the other hand, having a device that you can root and change the system image means a lot for privacy. You’re not required to share every picture and video with Zuckerberg.

Creepy people are going to be creepy regardless. Condemning an entire category of wearable because a tiny portion of the population will misuse them doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s like governments trying to ban GrapheneOS because some people use it for criminal purposes.

No, the other one

Yakuake with tmux, all your terminal apps at the push of a button.

It is. The laptop was originally my testbed for trying hyprland so it had essentially nothing else installed, I just ended up using it as a portable terminal due to some unexpected traveling and I enjoyed the concept so I’ve kept it around.

I haven’t tried zellij yet, but I’ll give it a shot (thanks).

If I had to guess, it’s that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she’s more comfortable with tmux.

Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.

My laptop is terminal-only as well.

The only difference is that I use hyprland and waybar because it looks a bit better and using the dynamic tiling is sometimes easier than operating tmux panes.

To add to her list of useful apps:

mpd - To play music/audio. There are plug-ins for tmux and waybar to show the song status

ncmpcpp - TUI mpd client

lynx - Sometimes you need a web browser

Yeah, and I’m on your team on the important topic.

My perspective on the systemd change is that in open source software it is impossible for any project to force me to do anything that I don’t want to do. If the field ever becomes non-optional then I’ll use a different init system.

To me, this is just engineers making engineering decisions in a way that is the least impactful for people not participating in the age verification nonsense.

Seeing people actively targeting the humans behind the update is the part that has motivated me to speak out. I don’t think your position is wrong in any way, just some of the people sharing that perspective were being actively toxic and harmful.

I understand their position but disagree with the tactics.

Yes, the age verification laws are incredibly bad for various reasons. I do not support them in any way.

However, they do exist and services are required to comply with them. Many services in this position use Linux and systemd. On those systems, systemd is the location where user data like this would be stored. So, from a software engineering perspective it only makes sense to include a field to handle this.

People were taking this engineering decision and treating as if it were a proxy for age verification laws. They were doxxing the developer and the comments were borderline inciting violence (and some not borderline at all). That’s the part I take issue with.

It’s slacktivisim.

Effectively fighting against age verification requires engaging with the political system, not spamming toxic comments on social media. The fight against age verification isn’t going to be won inside of git repos and no progress is made by attacking volunteer developers.

You’re right that it is an important issue, but the people that show up just to be toxic and violent are not doing the cause any favors and should be shunned from the community. These people were not actually members of our community, they were tourists following the outrage train and have since moved on to other topics for their next hit of outrage and self-righteousness.

I’m at a loss

Reading the comments I’m glad to see that the outrage crowd has left, last month they were swarming this topic heavily.

(Well, they seem to have limited themselves to downvoting at least)

(I know)

https://lemmy.world/post/45580224/23217198

On this topic, there is apparently only salt

literally never once put any genuine information in there. Who does? Why would anyone?

(That’s the joke) - 1mo ago

Edit: and if you don’t put in your full name, how will people know who they’re fingering?!

Asking the important questions

I was getting depressed that nobody would get the joke, what has the Internet become…

But you got so mad you had to make a meme about it.

Some of you have never been trolled before, and it shows.

You see, the real_name field has been part of the GECOS field since the 70s. Anyone who has any actual experience with Linux knows this.

There is some bit of drama about adding birth_date to systemd. The person that I’m responding to appears to subscribe to this drama due to the fact that they’re recommending distros who either don’t use systemd or, even more stupid, ‘fork’ the project to remove that field.

So, I made a meme from the point of view of one of these people, expressing outrage that Debian is asking for a user’s Real Name… when only a newbie doesn’t know these things.

And lest you think I’m doing the “I was caught being dumb so I’m claiming to be trolling” here’s a comment of mine from over a month ago making this exact same joke, but more explicitly.

Yeah, sure you can just make up information and put in the field but the real problem is them asking in the first place.

Next you’re going to tell me that you can ignore this optional field in systemd.

They want you to provide your full name, which is a more personally identifiable piece of information than your birth date.

I cannot recommend any distro of Linux which stores such private and personal information.