No operating system needs to know the age of a user, it's just not within the scope of how it operates normally. Software will always be bypassed no matter what the law is. Brb, "moving" my computers using a VPN.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can actually imagine this being pretty useful on phones so you can give a kid a phone but prevent it from installing certain software (from normal sources)

[–] gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

My kid has a phone, their user doesn't have app installation permissions at all and app store is hidden

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

You can already require a pin to download anything off the store.