Post #781447

2026-03-19 16:04 UTC

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing. Yet. it’s a foot-on-the-door to demand more stuff, and some distros have already shown they are going to merrily open up their arses and ours.

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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 16:45

This is something being created in response to laws being passed by politicians, it's not a secret plot by systemd and distro maintainers to... whatever it is that you're implying. This is about as scary as the realName, emailAddress or location fields. They're completely optional and not validated in any way. You can call yourself Linus Torvalds set your e-mail address to gaben@valve.com and your location to Mars... nothing about the system is going to check or care if you're lying. Similarly, now you can set your birthdate to April 20th 69BC if you'd like. It doesn't mean anything. e: I lied, it has to be ISO 8601 compliant so anybody born before 1900 is ineligible for Linux, smh

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