After reviewing the actual text of the law, I think the title of this post is false or at the very least extremely misleading by omission. I suggest editing the title or deleting the post altogether as to not spread misinformation.
Still a.terrible law though.
you need to read the actual text of the bill, not the sanitized PR blog post put out by the people pushing it who want to make it seem like it's a better idea than it actually is. don't ever take the word of a corporation or politician at face value.
"Covered manufacturer" means a manufacturer of an Internet-enabled device, an operating system provider, or an application store.
You might want to filter out Lunduke. He is totally unreliable.
The law explicitly notes that news media, broadband service providers, email providers, and learning management systems are not covered platforms and are not subject to this law.
There are scope limits all over the place in this law. It's still a terrible law, but whoever posted it on Reddit didn't seem to understand much of what they read.
The real issue with it is the device level age verification.
EDIT: Link to full text of the law.
EDIT 2: Looking at the text, a big concern would be for users of MacOS, ChromeOS and Windows because each require an internet connected account (AppleID, Google ID, Microsoft account). These types of account would require an age and ID verification mechanism.
I only reposted from reddit. heres is missing post body:
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB-5511 into law, requiring operating system providers to implement an age assurance system by January 1, 2028.
The law defines "operating system provider" broadly, including commercial and nonprofit entities that develop or supply internet-connected operating systems.
Credit: @LundukeJournal
Hello, @sanitation@lemmy.today .
Why does the title of your post say "operating system providers"? I tried looking for any operating system references in this article but could find none. I'm under the impression that this law applies only to social networking platforms, but I could be mistaken - I only skimmed it.
Thank you.
EDIT: Same with open source projects. I tried searching for "open-source" and "open source" on the page - to no avail.
For me personally, the very simple answer is it feels really good to have designated workspaces for different applications and not having to spam alt-tab to get to a specific window.
Most of the project was written with the help of AI. If you are not comfortable using AI-assisted software, you are under no obligation to use it.
I assume this is largely based off of downloads instead of in-program telemetry
Maybe I should rtfa.
It's based off API update checks. Not telemetry or downloads. It makes sense tho, more windows machines means more windows downloads.
Maybe Linux users turn off telemetry?
Does not work with RaspPIs, as it requires UEFI boot and aspi (see FAQ in in post, at the bottom). Which is probably the most wide spread arm platform for at least (mini) home lab use.
Actually a bit surprising. I'd think emulator nerds would be using Linux at significantly higher rates than normal and I think 10% is the latest (optimistic) general adoption rate.
I... Had no idea it worked this way but it makes so much sense. This actually explains so much about an issue I've been having
But... but my security :(
Tragic. Shows we never know when. And a little irony there too, in how we've lost the chap who contributed so much to preparation [and so recent too] for what to do if we lose that other chap.
I like the idea of tiling, but it doesn't work well with my monitor's size & shape. Also, I really like minimizing windows I'm not using. Weirdly, there aren't many non-tiling compositors available on my distro.
Dude this has bothered me many times. I had to reopen whatever app or page held on to the content. Bah. What a bad way of doing it, no?
Good write up on the github page explaining why I would bother with it, the short version included:
In Wayland, whatever app you copied something from is the one actually holding onto that clipboard content, the compositor itself doesn't store it. This means if you close that app, whatever you copied disappears too. swayclip fixes this by keeping its own copy of your clipboard history, and only steps in to "hold" the clipboard once the original app closes or exits.
Oh boy, it's happening.
I've generally been happy with tiling extensions for gnome/kde/macos/windows, though more recently I've been experimenting with niri (a scrolling tiling wm) on an extra device to see if i like it more. It is more work, but its also been fun. Jury is still out if it'll become my default.
Imo, the reason to move away from one of the traditional desktop environments like gnome/kde to sway/hyperland/i3/etc is if you arent happy enough with built-in tiling featues or extension/add-on tiling features. The wayland ecosystem has expanded options quite a bit, but any sort of diy setup around a tiling compositor will always require more work and come with fewer comfort features that youd be used to with kde/gnome/etc. But maybe you don't need any of those things or find tiling more important.
People who use tiling window managers are more likely to be power users and thus tend to be overrepresented in these spaces. No one is gonna talk unprompted about the mouse-centered built in window management that is fairly consistent across all operting systems at this point.
I've primarily been using PaperWM on Gnome for the last 4 years or so, and the main issues are awkwardness/conflicts where it collides with Gnome. Basically a "death by a thousand cuts" feeling that has built up over time. In Gnome's defense, it doesn't try to be flexible for alternate window management tools. I don't care much for KDE or the wider KDE software stack, but it tends to be more flexible by nature.
In an ideal world, KDE and Gnome would allow you to swap out the compositor layer for sway/niri/whatever, which would reduce the conflict points considerably. Cosmic has early support for this, as does LXQt, but there are legitimate project direction reasons for the devs to not do so, at least not any time soon. Wayland does make it much more likely to happen in the future, from an architectural standpoint.
(Addendum: I haven't used windows for many years, but Power Toys has a solid tiling window manager. Or at least, it did for windows 10. No idea if it got support for windows 11. Worth trying out if using windows and wanna try tiling!)
I also haven’t understood it because gnome can pretty much do the same thing
It's less about looks (at least for me), but about speed
Pretty much all I need, I literally have at my fingertips.
Opening a terminal just feels much more quick - don't know why it really is faster, but e.g. i3 is just a much smaller code base than KDE and they're not really in competition, as they focus on different things.
Re-arranging windows in different layouts with just keys is also nice - and fast as fuck.
I don't want to move windows around when I work, I want to focus on my work.
Just needing to move the mouse to position a window somewhere can sometimes break the flow.
But I have to admit, that with some layouts (split screen with one side tabs and vertical terminals on the other side, can be a bit frustrating, when I jump through the tabs and not into the terminal container.
But I think, I'll need to check the i3wm manual again, because jumping between containers is probably possible, without jumping through all tabbed windows.
So, I guess, that's on me and not a wm fault
All in all, it depends on the kind of work you do on your PC.
I'm often in terminals checking logs and stuff.
I3 just felt the nicest (on X11 - couldn't try sway or hyprland, because I need XForwarding and I'm not sure, if that works by now or ever will) and I stayed with it - for now
If you are tiling-curious just give it a try and you can see the difference for yourself.
It's never about being the optimal solution for everyone.
It's about being the best solution for specific workflows and so it depends on yours.
Just like space and gravity. The circle is complete.
On KDE, you can use Krohnkite to get tiling window management.
It's easiest to install through the "KWin Scripts" page in the System Settings.
I've just tried it, it's really cool! Thanks!