It took me a minute to figure out how to get the music to play. Once I did, I was beyond impressed. Auto theming. Fully graphical album art in my terminal. It honestly shocked me in a good way!

Its so funny that we call these things “offline music players” now. They used to just be music players. I’m excited to throw my 3000+ tracks at it

GOOD.

There’s nothing wrong with calling it GIMP. People need to take their issues elsewhere. A mental health professional perhaps.

I would not wanna turn left on what may be a blind intersection. If that parallel road you’re turning left on is 4 lanes of traffic I’m taking easier right of way.

Edit: also if your destination is immediately across from a 3 way its safest to turn left into it as opposed to crossing two right of ways

I don’t know. Maybe a few weeks behind a rock with a whip behind his back might teach him to be mindful of where he is the next time he’s going to act like an idiot

You guys should be going at it. Whenever you want, all the time. Enjoy it

He is some kind of dystopian

You definitely can’t have your cake and eat it too. Linux for many has been about freedom and privacy. He made a direct contribution toward a system that would help take that away

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290 his motivation is crystal clear. Its compliance before it’s even required. Not just for Californians but for me in Canada, too. This is why he’s on the angry end of activism. He’s proactively helping Linux become a state surveillance machine.

You can make whatever further strawman arguments you’d like but I’m pretty sure a Spade’s a Spade. He may not be a “criminal” but you bet that everyone who resists this crap in the coming years will be if we keep this up. Resist.

Timing’s a bit shit to add a DoB field don’t you think. I also don’t think you can compare computing in a professional setting in the 1960s to modern day surveillance states. I can also say as a parent there’s only one thing protecting your kid from the internet and its not whatever poorly standardized notion of Linux parental controls that exist today. Only actual parenting can.

As for the developer’s publicly observable commits and the following publicly available criticism of it, you can call it painting a target but I think even that’s a bit of a stretch. What’s most outrageous about the institution that is the United States of America in 2026 is how all of it was even allowed to get so far. So yeah, expect some activism.

A spade’s a spade. This is malicious compliance. The law might be the problem here but it’s on us to resist and try to make a change. Every last one of us. After all, the surveillance state workers in China and Russia are all just doing their jobs right?

Why the heck would we ever want a DoB field in systemd, optional or otherwise?

Signal no longer requires phone numbers. you no longer need to share your phone number to chat at least (sorry)

I’ve had polarized lenses reveal multi colored scan lines between black spaces that can be a tad disorienting

Polarized glasses and a low refresh rate is a recipe for a good beach vomiting

I literally don’t do any finance on my phone at all. This image is qualified

I’m sure many trackers and indicators can already figure out your date of birth depending on which web services you’ve used

Have you tried asking OpenClaw to get it to compile for you? /s

That sounds funny on paper but honestly I haven’t had either of those qualities in many desktops.

Gnome is my go to “get a solid desktop” quick choice. Whenever whatever experimental DE/WM I’m messing with can’t paint a window because it didn’t expect something, Gnome is always there.