He is going to be so disappointed when it finally arrives and it isn’t as good as he expected it to be. ;_;

Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.

… When it works, that is.

I actually take my antidepressants right before I go to bed, and they seem to last the next day.

I do get really upsetti if I stay up later than usual, and am generally lower in mood at night. But that could be a number of things.

For the lazy:

• Nextcloud
• Jellyfin
• Immich
• Vaultwarden / Bitwarden
• Uptime Kuma
• AdGuard Home
• Homepage
• Monica
• changedetection.io

Seems a decent selection.

Looks like it’ll functionally just be a standard Windows PC with mass produced hardware (and thus specs can be tailored for by gamedevs). It makes sense as a thing to do and I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

Does Windows have a controller interface yet?

The dad is making a big show of how much he supports his daughter… Yet still orders chicken?

(I know not all vegans demand others share their diet, but it would be a nice gesture for him to do)

I can kinda get the range anxiety comments though - it sucks having to keep daisy chaining extension leeds to go further.

Semitransparent backgrounds for terminals are the worst. I don’t mean to kinkshame, but it, imo, should not be a default.

I think the whole “XYZ Distro is faster!” arguments are overblown. Most distros will be fast enough on reasonably modern hardware, and any performance gains will usually come with compromises and/or lots of tinkering. Generally speaking a standard arch install (that is, you’ve not manually configured anything) will be roughly the same speed as a more beginner friendly distros like Mint and Fedora (which is still more lightweight than Windows).

To answer the question in the title: Yes you’ll survive the CLI. Just give yourself time to learn the fundamentals and treat it as learning a programming language. More user friendly distros generally don’t expect you to use the CLI, which is part of the reason they are recommended.

My condolences - I’m in the UK as well and wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

If I may offer an alternate perspective: Politicians don’t actually care about any of this, they just want votes. California’s system allows them to say “Look, we solved child safety!” without having to deal with people complaining about privacy. If there’s an existing system in place, it’s easier for politicians to say “we already solved this!” and ignore those voices.

It also puts the guilt on parents. If this system in place, and you complain about your child seeing tiddy online, the question is going to be “why didn’t you set the age correctly then?”.

… Of course this might be me just being optimistic. I really hope we, as a species, grow out of this new age puritanism and government overreach.

It’d be stronger than that, since kids shouldn’t have admin rights on their pcs and couldn’t claim to be over 18.

Sure. But at that point distros can just say “no use in California lol” and enjoy the free market share from disgruntled totally-not-californian Windows users.

I can see the slippery slope argument, however it overlooks the fact that countries/states are already willing to implement the non-privacy systems.

If these systems take off, it will give privacy advocates the ability to point at California’s system and say “look, they have a system that is as effective as the strong assurance stuff but without the people sending you angry emails.”

I see it as almost a “reverse slippry slope”. A way for people to push for less strict verification.

Agreed, but at this point I think it’s worth taking what we can get.

Isn’t this an example of pushing for standardisation of parental controls?

I have blackout curtains and one of those light based alarm clocks. Best of both worlds.

Does the age verification stuff matter for this? Microsoft, if they wanted to, could already lock down systems in this way.

This is perhaps a controversial statement from someone who is fed up with all this age verification stuff, but having the user age be set on account creation (without providing ID or anything dumb like that) doesn’t seem that bad.

It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Instead of having to roll their own age verification stuff, software like Discord can rely on the UserAccountStorage value.

If it were possible to plug into a browser in a standard, privacy conscious way, it also reduces the need for third party parental control browser extensions, which I imagine can be a bit sketchy.

OSes collect and expose language and locale information anyway. What harm is age bands in addition to that?

I like having a system I know the internals of and can control.

But honestly, nowadays the software quality of Windows is just… Bad.

Instead, AerynOS leans into a tightly integrated, curated desktop experience.

This is (as far as I can tell) the unique feature the article touts. Even though that fits Mint, Ubuntu and I think Fedora.