surely now all of those projects, like systemd, who capitulated in advance will all roll back the changes they made to enable age collection, right? right?
if you figure out how to get this working i would be v grateful if you told me how
if it worked like that an age field wouldn’t be in systemd for everyone everywhere because of the california law having passed
it /shouldn’t/ work like that, but not enough people and projects seem willing to hold their ground atm
i started off using ubuntu back in the day, but these days i refuse to use any of the distros downstream or tied to a for profit company (so not fedora, opensuse, or ubuntu - and by extension mint), and i prefer distros that are used as the base for other distros rather that ones dependant on another distro (so extra not mint, ubuntu, endeavour, or manjaro).
that leaves, essentially, slackware, arch, and debian.
i am too lazy to learn slackware, so for my main desktop i use arch and for other machines i own i use debian.
departing from the original question:
for new people i mostly recommend cachyos, debian, or bazzite depending on their ability & interest
i feel that, unlike the other ‘arch but easier’ distros, cachy actually adds something to the arch ecosystem (the optimized packages) and the installer showing videos of the different desktop environments all running on cachy is excellent
looks neat, and the ai disclosure is appreciated
this is a dangerous argument - people may be living longer /on average/ but in many global north countries life expectancy for the least wealthy quarter of society has started to fall even as expectancy for the most wealthy continues to grow
(this argument can end up supporting a society where the poor can expect to not survive to see retirement)