Hello anons, I wanted to ask a deeper question and just rant/get some stuff of my mind regarding this topic rather than just pile on information that you may or may not already know and as to not create frivolous thread.

So the things we know about this topic right now are as follows.

SystemD is adding an age verification mechanism to the init system (unsure how yet, Dbus would be my best guess).
SystemD is a product of RHEL and runs on 97% ish of Linux systems.
Aspects of SystemD such as but not limited to "Elogind, Dbus, Resolved and Udev" live on every single Linux system regardless of init.
RHEL has a deep relationship with the DOW (USA'S Department Of War) and has a lot of incentive to enshittify the Linux ecosystem with SystemD so that way we can be lab rats to test the code for war production and they only have to train people on one set of tools.

So why age verification ?
The whole point of me making this post is more so to ask why SystemD did this and why we rely on the tools so heavily?
RHEL's main focus is within the server/defense sector so what in the hell made them jump that high to implement such a thing.

The idea (at least in from my understanding) is to have one set way of doing things for every single Linux box on earth for better testing/development with regards to war, the only thing that sets distro's apart now is package management and the way packages are compiled but even in this regard there has been an attempt to to unify this with Snap, Flatpak and app-images. My thoughts on this regarding age verification and this unification are not well thought out yet but I have a 2 of theory's.

My first thought is that they will add at first "optional" "telemetry" just like Ubuntu to get a better understanding of the 5 W's and maybe age could play into but reports so they can make it more easy so a 15 Y/O with -7 IQ can use it. (unlikely)

The second and final thought is that they got paid off by "someone maybe google but probably not google" (this isn't well thought out and I'm spit balling ideas) to add this so they can collect more data with Dbus again for the 5 W's within Firefox or anything that can and wants to track you because you are using spook os.

These are my only guesses at the moment as I don't understand why this is even a thing given how easy it is to get around unless its Dbus to Firefox depending on implementation.
The problems is not that I'm a beta tester for the US government or that the age verification even exist because lets face it, you are here and none of this will affect any of us. My problem is I don't understand what the end game is and why SystemD is even allowed to exist/why does nobody care?

Why is it when you bring this up to other programmers they complain and do nothing?
Why is it that the old way of doing things is just gone and lost?
Why do we still have to rely on sys-apps/systemd-utils on a Gentoo Open-rc install other/more SystemD bullshit on a non SystemD init systems EXPOSING ME TO CVE-2026-3888 (the CVE affects snap "who the fuck uses snap lmao" but I have a weird feeling that this could affect Flatpak I'm to lazy to check right now) ON MY FUCKING GENTOO DESKTOP, how did we solve tmpfs stuff in the past and why do we rely on SystemD bits for this now? (also Open-rc heavily depends on this package and while yes I can just change my init why is it like this in the first place ?)
WHAT THE GOD DAMN FUCKING FUCK IS A FUCKING XDG-PORTAL THAT ACRONYM ISN'T IN THE FUCKING BIBLE.

Every single time you bring up this topic the discussion gets derailed and it gets turned into a flame war, I just want to know what WE as a community can do?
Do I go to Funtoo and wait for it to crash and burn again?
Do I say fuck it and go to Netbsd/Openbsd
Do I just say fuck it and go move out to the woods and become a weird schizo nihilist in the woods?

Apologies for my schizo babble I just don't know what happened to us.
We used to build things and conquer the fucking stars with 4 KB of ram and now java script has raped the modern internet making everything fucking bloated and gross.
We used to move mountains anons and we invented things, now its all AI and algorithmic mind rape.
Anons, did you know that 90% of the main web is a "web app" we don't have websites anymore besides small places like these.(you probably knew that because your here)
Whatever maybe this was pointless to write, but I'm just so disappointed in what we've become. It makes me not want to contribute code anymore or try and create a better place us.

whatever, I love you anons and be nice to each other if anyone cares to comment or talk to one another. GG

yeah I don't use systemd enough so I'm not even sure how it's supposed to work, but I heard it was trying to auto-save a lot of stuff between sessions. Maybe the age verification thing just isn't working right.

Or nah, might be that age is a fixed field and systemd keeps rolling it, if I ever need to look up an entry, I'll just have to remember what time it last showed up.

(and for real: my old 9mm feels like it's going to burst out of the mag. I've had a couple of magazines come out that way before)

nah that sounds like it'd be systemd getting tired of idle things rather than just old ones, idk how it handles ages, but when mine runs out of memory it'll do a restart without any warning, so I wouldn't trust it to survive 30 minutes if I'm away. if the age is supposed to save more than what's needed for startup, it might not matter.