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>when they added age fields
I won't defend the nature of the age field as I am vehemently against the age verification push, but by itself it is nothing, it's an optional data field in a struct part of an optional subsystem, not a age verification system on itself, I can simply ignore its existence, and I don't believe a age verification system can be built on systemd itself either from what I understand the people that want to bring it to Linux are the freedesktop people they want to integrate it in xdg standards as a portal, the real bad parts of modern Linux are all happening at the application and desktop level not at the system level (because they need kernel, systemd, etc, to work under full control of the admin/user for their servers), for example wayland security model, flatpack/appimage sandboxed application model, all very hostile to the user at the application level, and all inspired by the Android model (that's their vision for Linux desktop, something as locked down as Android), but having systemd installed doesn't change anything you can still use oldschool X11 with WM and have full control over all of it, as long as we have root control on our Linux systems (unlike say android for example) age verification will always be impossible, like the whole subsystem (userdb) can be disable and compiled out of systemd if you want.