I want a small Linux tablet with interchangeable innards from framework and 2 usbc dp alt mode ports. Something like a fydetab.

Sir, can I introduce you to the concept of forbidden knowledge?

optional sounds reasonable now. its gets its foot in the door. it sounds like compromise. but then, other things start depending on it. and if you dont comply, they just dont work. its a dependancy. break that dependency become incompatible.

this is not solving any problem. Sites already have the “are you 18” thing that says you aren’t allowed to know about naked people doing naked people things that we all ignored as teenagers and grew up just fine.

isn’t enough that we all hate the same thing? lets not overthink this. All I want is a socially-accepted smoldering crater

its building a surveillance infrasttucture.

this feature does not solve a problem. but it is abusable by creating dependancies. it has no reason to exist. it is not there to solve a technical problem, but instead a political one.

the operating systems job is to negotiate between software and hardware. its there to make sure “my red triangle program draws the same red triangle on anything running this environment regardless of the parts used to build the machine”. its not there to rat you out to a surveillance state or advertisers or meta.

The idea that this protects children is insane and nobody believes this for a second. Hormones happened and little timmy has discovered the wonders of nudity and friction. age attestation doesn’t stop that. it doesn’t stop horrible people from preying on that. it doesn’t teach timmy the difference between fantasy and what a healthy relationship really looks like. it doesn’t address any of those things.

it tracks people. that is all it does. that is all it is for. and considering literal nazis are in power, nobody wants this. it does not solve a problem.

no, they are bending to the knee. you dont say “let’s compromise with the nazis.” you say “let’s barbecue nazis in their own ovens. dave has a fucking great nazi sauce…”

its the opposite in the best possible way. FOSS = “we know it’s too complicated to make perfect. that’s why it’s all out in the open where we call eachother out on our shit. We dont sell, we improve.” proprietary = “there is no war in ba sing seigh and to say or demonstrate otherwise is terrorism against shareholders.”

nope. slippery slope is basically “bad thing can happen, so it will happen” without evidence to support that outcome. here, we have a trajectory. there’s a pattern. it has momentum at this point. it hasn’t changed corse. it’s followed a predictable and proven pattern. It’s done so because the the pressures exerted on this particular system guide the outcome in predictable ways.

that is entirely different than the slippery slope dismissal

whereas I , out of pettiness, will switch an entire server to openRC to fuck over these assholes who only care about “line goes up”