I get it. It’s more descriptive than an error message, and the few kilobytes you can cram into a QR code is great for that.

It sounded like other people were worried about data exfiltration, or disclosure to a third party. I haven’t had a chance to test this. Where does the QR code go?

That QR code could be helpful, but why can’t we have both? Show me the backtrace and logs, and stick a code in the corner in case I need the Internet’s help.

Correct. I understand it better than Android Auto, and it’s similar enough, so I use it as an example.

I can’t speak for Android Auto, but it sounds very similar to its sibling, Apple CarPlay. The latter requires a car’s (or boat’s) infotainment system to present little more than a touchscreen, sound card, and perhaps the charge or fuel level sensors to a connected device over either USB (as Type-C or Lightning) or both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. It’s perfectly fine for privacy as it’s nothing more than an extension of the phone. I don’t think it can even access the car’s own GPS. (I don’t know enough about CarPlay Ultra to advise you, so I won’t.)

You might be thinking of Android Automotive. That’s unrelated to Android Auto. Automotive is a full operating system that uses the car’s modems and GPS and you don’t get a say in the matter.

Same here. It was my first Linux. The Gentoo Handbook circa 2005 did not even attempt to hold your hand. But when I got through, it worked well! I got into dependency hell and bricked my system trying to upgrade Firefox. I like how Debian is stable, but I still do wonder about Gentoo.

I would love to do something like this, but what happens if I don’t have kids? What happens if I one of them develop a IT background? Perhaps I could curate some pictures, videos, and documents that I feel are important (and not too sensitive) and send it to the Internet Archive so that extended family could always get it. Self-hosting is great until there is no more self.

It’ll probably happen in the next few years. Compiling for PowerPC went away after macOS dropped it, and it was the same story for i386. Running and targeting x86_64 will soon be a distant memory.

That being said, if you have a Mac/Hackintosh/VM with an older Xcode, keep it! You can still compile with the old version, compile with the new version, and stick the results together with the lipo command. I wrote a simple C CLI app and I can put five architectures in one binary if I want (ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64, arm64) and it’ll run on any macOS/Mac OS X version ever made.

I’m surprised Ubuntu wasn’t using systemd-timesyncd. It seems like something they’d like based on the prefix.

OP is presenting to Adobe.com with an inability to combine two PDFs and a lack of subscription fatigue.

I’ve used Little Snitch on macOS, but I agree that a closed-source blob won’t fly on Linux. OpenSnitch exists, though I haven’t tried that one.

Can I just do an apt remove —purge systemd-ageverificationd and call it a day, or do I need to edit /etc/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf and call it a day?

I don’t agree with this law, but having an age verification API as an open-source modular component is the best way to do it. Build in privacy controls and permissions so you know what’s being sent, where, and when. Make sure we know to edit $HOME/.config/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf whenever we want (yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if systemd handled this, too).

Don’t forget the off switch and don’t give it unnecessary dependencies. Let me be able to install it if I need it (spoilers: I won’t) and if you include it by default, let me be able to remove it without removing the whole GUI.

I wound up switching to Debian. It’s stable. It works. It lets me tinker and upgrade some packages without compromising the whole system.

My only gripe is that OS upgrades are a manual process. I miss Ubuntu’s do-release-upgrade command, though following a process isn’t hard.

Agreed. I use Secure Boot on my Linux systems with my own keys. Let’s not confuse it with Restricted Boot, which is awful.

Nah, he Base4017’d it. That’s Base64 plus all the emojis. It’s actually quite efficient.

Good question. It seems like Debian has been speeding up a bit. The software is still a bit older, but it’s not too far behind compared to some other Debian releases. I switched and it’s been rock solid, despite me running a Trixie Backports system.

Agreed! Though give me the backports any day.

I’ll second this. I’ve got tons of FLACs. I let PlexAmp do the transcoding in the background.

Because I never learned Bash scripting, for whatever reason, and WSL wasn’t yet available to load on my work PC at the time.

Windows doesn’t make you oil the machine. Your move, nerd. </sarcasm>