Mastodawn

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep my household linux-free:
"stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc."

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

The brainrot is big in this one.
also… TIL: "systemd-userdbd" wtflol.
Kinda amazed how they manage to still find new nooks and crannies to metastasise into, in their haphazard nonchalant fashion.

extra-lol for this idiocy:

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LumiWorx Mar 20

@nblr

They closed and locked the issue queue on it as they committed age verification to code, so i opened a new issue to bring up how they were going to cover their asses when the lawsuits start flying... it was outright deleted.

They don't want public discourse or to even acknowledge that users have problems with the door they've opened.

I doubt that there's anything already in any system level process that is even remotely open to possible legal concerns ... until now.

#OpenStupidity

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Numerfolt Mar 20

@lumiworx @nblr Now I need to find out how to remove systemd from my system...

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LumiWorx Mar 20

@Numerfolt @nblr

I'm not even sure if that's a possibility, and if it isn't, then the alternative is to move to one of the BSD flavors, or something more obscure than the usual distros at least.

It's truly a shame that once Microslop pushed the door open to give Linux an opportunity to become a desktop of choice, decisions are made to sabotage that from readily happening.

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@lumiworx @Numerfolt @nblr Lots of linux distros either don't use at all or don't have a hard dependency on systemsd - Gentoo being the one I am most familiar with.

Edit: But generally a distro that does hard depend on systemd can't easily have systemd removed, you generally need to move to a different distro in that case.

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LumiWorx Mar 21

@flaviusb @Numerfolt @nblr

And as I've been looking at what there is available, besides the BSD variants, there's probably 20 or so distros that don't use it.

Unfortunately, the list isn't exactly full of better known flavors, with the exceptions of #Gentoo and #Slackware. Most seem to be relatively unknown and small in user count, but that may soon change.

I intend to compile as complete a list as possible and post them - with links - for those who are concerned and interested in switching.