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Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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No, it is the OS verifying what you know. The OS doesn't care if you gave your password to anyone, just that whoever is opening the PC knows the password.
Verifying who you are would be biometric verification or ID verification.
In my case I require a password and a hardware key on login. That is still not verifying that I am myself, only that I know the password, and have the hardware key. If I added fingerprint scanning then I would have the holy trifecta and only then verify who I am.
If you think about it like that none of the proposed laws verify anything, even the worst one just verified you logged into the account with credentials for someone who put their DOB in the age bracket returned by the API
And that's why I fear what comes next now that the infrastructure has been set for sharing sensitive data like DoB. Brazil's law already stated that self-reporting age is not sufficient.
By that logic you should disconnect from the Internet entirely and use templeOS.
OR, we can just use a distro like Artix that doesn't comply with the law.