slazer2au comments on Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The stupid thought I keep having is what stops someone from patching the functionality out?

[–] xylol@leminal.space 11 points 7 months ago

Then I guess applications will just ask you to put your date like steam does instead of pulling the number you inputed from the system. Makes me wonder how many people were born on 1/1/1900 according to steam

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[–] hunger@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

You do not even need to patch it out. It is basically an extra entry in the user db (think: /etc/passwd). Just don't fill it in and you are done, just like your location and a ton of other stuff you can put there if you want to.

Nobody can read it outside your system either... it's a defined place when (not if -- not anymore) something wants to store that information. Better have a properly protected defined place ready than have 10 different programs request that info separately and store it all over the place.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm here wondering if it will be a good time to switch over to Devuan

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[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Yes. But don't do as I do and try to patch an existing Debian 13.3 to Devuan on a Friday the 13th by following the instructions on the Devuan site. It didn't pan out and eventually required a reinstall after I tried to fix it all weekend.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I’m here wondering if it will be a good time to switch over to Devuan

LOL. Do you really think that because that thing is supported for commercial distros like RHEL, it would have any impact on the Debians etc. of the world?

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