I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora

I can’t agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste

Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops

I always laugh when I hear about meta’s end to end encryption because it isn’t remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don’t unencrypt it which I find hilarious.

I always thought of it going the other way, leave osx relatively untouched and make phones run on it, rather than taking ios as the standard.

Iirc the general assumption in tech spaces was that ios and macos are going to merge in two or three major versions, so I would imagine that apple is aware of this want in their consumer base as well.

Maybe I’m misreading, but it seems like this only applies in the context of sex crimes. I see no reason based upon the wording that they couldn’t do it for other things even with this in place

That’s just because amazon doesn’t tag it correctly, there were easily 5 models when you just had Linux as a search term. And I also disagree that variety is necessary for laptop listings to be considered viable, it’s not like non technical people are even looking at specs anyway.

There are quite a few listings for Linux computers on amazon now, granted most of them are in the premium range, >here is one in the mid range of prices with comparable specs to the new macbook

LOL those are all like $2k

I’ll give you that if you want it officially supported they tend to come with those price tags, although i did find this one which is officially supporting linux at the midrange price tag Laptop, I mainly mean that the individual components are supported which you could determine through a little bit of research, but generally speaking if you don’t want to pay the premium, you should be prepared for a little bit of trouble shooting, but normally it is only for the webcam nowadays. Overall, I have changed the os on many of my laptops, and they have always either had no missing functionality after installation or had a forum that explained how to fix its issues that was a one and done fix.

if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.> I don’t think you understand what this is…

Could you be more specific about what you mean? I don’t think I claimed anything that would be out of the purview of fractional scaling.

That Is almost always a hardware compatibility issue, if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux, even the jankiest of distros will not have all but the last issue, and for the last one if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.

It all but makes the law useless, but the law characterizes viable age verification as being self reported, so the Id wouldn’t be necessary.

If that is the video conferencing in the desktop then I can tell you that that has not been my experience with it both on windows and w/ Wayland

What features would you want to see, currently my only gripe is that the screen sharing doesn’t stream audio

I’ve been using matrix.org, it doesn’t work with the desktop app on windows, & I use the element-desktop package from the arch extra repo, which also doesn’t work. I do use Wayland, as I am unable to run an x11 de for various reasons

Except audio on the screen share, it is my biggest issue with matrix currently.

The thing that’s insane to me is that most of the alternatives have screen sharing with working audio on the back burner, while I can tell you that the first one to get it working will be my go to. Hopefully with this extra cushion, one of them can get it working it’s the only thing discord has over its competitors other than general stability related things.

I think it is notable that it never makes assumptions about the verification method, so it could just be a simple parental control system. Granted I have no doubts that the corpos will take this as requiring Id, but the bill itself makes no such requirements.

I don’t think it will be cut and dry on state vs federal, although if we follow trends it will get shutdown because the feds love abusing the commerce and elastic clause. And I’m not overly familiar with the Colorado constitution, but the actual text isn’t actually that invasive, it makes no requirements on data collection, it only requires for it to be obtained somehow, which could be self reporting ala parental controls, it only requires that once the data is obtained that they must provide an age bracket and only and age bracket to services that request it and only services that request it.

I don’t think your missing anything, granted it doesn’t make any assertions about how the data should be attained, just that they must somehow obtain it. In general it reads as requiring at the minimum parental controls on a system.