They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

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[–] 37 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Can someone eli5 the idea? I don't get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They're breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    OK, the disobedience was the part I didn't get. Thank you!

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Insofar as part availability isn't insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.

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  • [+] -24 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Except it's not age verification and as see n by the systemd fork over this, the people hyperventilating over adding an API are making less secure systems

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    It's not 'hyperventilation' it's obvious fascism

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    yes please! We're using OpenRC on Debian right now, it's very nice. Way less annoying than systemd.

    -- Frost

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    I've got a huge soft spot for OpenRC, my first experience with Linux was installing Gentoo on a junker PC i'd patched together from scavenged parts in like 2007. I actually worked from a printed out version of the handbook >.<

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