Not only normies are going to provide all the IDs asked along with anus scans, but they sincerely do not understand what's wrong with that.
But this is a general purpose desktop linux distro. A common, beginners-choice option, but still an option placing the user in a pretty rare breed. This isn't to game cheaply on a Steam Deck they bought, this is a choice to either build a PC ignoring the buy prompts for "Remember the windows license!", or choosing to overwrite the preinstalled OS on your laptop/PC.
The venn diagram of anus-scan-accepters and regular ubuntu users is simply two distant circles.
It sure sounds like there's no liability if the user lies: "An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user's age range..."
He's a big panderer to the right wing conspiracy nuts + the "anti woke" crowd.
- Keep the "Next" button greyed out until you add three forms of identification.
- Ask the user to take photos of their 3 forms of ID with a webcam. Ask the user to hold them in increasingly bizarre poses -- left hand, right hand, woven between your fingers, behind your ear, between your toes.
- Add an "accessibility" button. This button pops up a text box that advises you if you can't comply because you don't have hands, ears, feet or whatever (hey, some people don't and that's perfectly fine!) you can just use a picture of somebody else's body parts, and helpfully provides a menu of AI-generated pictures of human ears, hands, etc. for you to copy-paste.
- To preserve privacy, send the actual photos to /dev/null.
- The "verify the photo of my ID" button should check whether random.random() < 0.8. On average the user will require 5 tries per photo, or 15 tries total.
- Add a checkbox that says "I am not in the state of California". Upon clicking this checkbox the "OK" button becomes not grayed out and you can proceed.
- If the user does not seem to have a webcam installed, all UI elements are grayed out except the "I am not in the state of California" checkbox.
- The list of acceptable identification shall be: Driver's license, learner's permit, Social Security card, library card, school identification, Boy / Girl Scout membership card, school yearbook photo, Burger King Kid's Club membership card, utility bill, ISP bill, Burger King receipt, Mahalo Rewards card, any receipt paid via credit card, a printout of any email from OnlyFans, a photo of a DNS TXT record containing the string "CALIFORNIA", a photo of your X account with a blue check mark.
pixl97•2h ago
Go fuck yourself.
egorfine•1h ago
Unfortunately, others will follow because most are spineless.