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Genuine question, don’t we always say that we can change anything in the system on open source software like Linux and systemd etc? What’s stopping any of us from removing this age verification thing? Apps may break, true, but I’m sure there will be many one line scripts that replace that age verification with something that feeds it fake data?
You could just put a fake date in at user setup from what I understand. It adds the field to the user database but there isn't any verification that that date is true
I’ve heard somewhere that they’ll require a constant api calls from each system to an external verification system that is even paid. I don’t remember where I read this but if that’s the case then we are fucking doomed.
"I’ve heard somewhere that they’ll require a constant api calls from each system to an external verification system that is even paid"
or what? you can't use the software store? most of the stuff on there is open source and you can compile it yourself
if it comes down to it you can just compile your own kernel that doesn't do that.
what about airgapped systems?
It just doesn't work