mental healthcare field being practically non-existent in most countries

I’m in one of those countries so I’m having a hard time imagining how good mental healthcare could intervene. Could you give me an example?

well what was his justification two years ago?

or sourcehut, i say

Debian as more mainstream than Arch?

is it really still the same system if it’s a radically divergent userland? (see: android as a linux distribution)

Ubuntu has also gotten a lot better and promising in recent years, too.

Except Snap shenanigans. Snap always shenanigans. The Snap pushing is eternal… Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.

I didn’t say that it should be part of the OS. You’re repeating a different (compelling) argument that doesn’t change whether this field is opt-out when this entire subthread is about whether these fields are opt-out since kent_eh said the other fields were opt-out.

exactly, users should disable the optional birthDate field

a headless interface is still an interface

being accessible headless is still accessible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang

Yeah I see your point. I feel like it’s entirely reasonable, though. Like those who went to the PR, they saw something in the news and decided to do something about it with their abilities, throwing aside whether that’s good for a moment. I certainly would not call the optional JSON schema for user records a critical component especially as no existing fields were modified, just new ones.

(And FWIW it’s systemd, very different from the kenrel, though I do feel like you know what you meant to talk about. systemd’s code quality is relatively notorious anyways.)

Your point is true, but I’m saying its impact is also optional.

You specifically named the bills from Colorado and NY. They simply do not include those. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendment/A I wholeheartedly believe my characterization of these bills are faithful.

Specifically due to how barebones it is, it is trivial to modify yourself the birthdate sent to applications, as long as you have the system password.

does this support wireless, aka Wi-Fi? I can’t tell from a ~1 minute skim

https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star ? Its form factor sort of makes worrying about anything else impossible.

Coming out of nowhere just for this contribution is hecka sus though.

I’m fairly sure this is the first systemd pull request that many here have viewed. I wouldn’t say we’re coming out of nowhere.

That is the purpose, but the field is implemented as optional and modifiable with admin privileges.

ever wonder why every coin says “liberty” in some random spot? the coinage act of 1792 mandates that all coins must depict liberty because the US framers did not like “too monarch-like” effigies, so the people in the 1900s just called it a day by slapping onto Amerindians and historical figures the word LIBERTY

(same for the birthDate field)