(Not sure if this is worldwide or only in some countries)

Updating to iOS 26.4DB2 will put your phone into a parental-restricted mode with adult websites blocked on all browsers, warning prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app, and all social media apps blocked on the App Store (in Australia)

The settings to disable this mode are locked off until you verify your age either with a credit card, photo ID, or though information Apple already has (like the age of your account).

I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life but this might finally be the thing that forces me off the platform. Do any other long term apple users have some tips about migrating? I’ve heard Ashai Linux is pretty good on mac hardware these days and I’ve been thinking about GrapheneOS for a while.

  • 64bithero@lemmy.world
    1711·
    2 months ago

    I find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …

    I hate the world

      • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 months ago

        Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don’t give a fuck about protecting children.

    • Sims@lemmy.ml
      34·
      2 months ago

      Better to just hate the whole Epstein Class. They trash the world for everyone else…

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        26·
        2 months ago

        We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      241·
      2 months ago

      If everyone voting for these age requirements don’t also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren’t voting on this to protect the children.

      Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.

      Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      155·
      2 months ago

      Also they’ll deny trans kids puberty blockers which are proven to be safe and reversible, and the alternative creates harm.

      And they’ll censor the internet for ‘children’ (a 17 year old is not a child) to prevent them finding community, support or education outside their IRL religious and harmful bubbles.

      It was never about actually protecting children

  • 7112@lemmy.world
    961·
    2 months ago

    This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit…

    Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn’t like you.

      • LordCrom@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        For a phone sim…of course you do. I mean they would know who pays the bill anyway right? Unless you have a phone company that takes bitcoin or cash only.

        • freedickpics@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          2 months ago

          Phone companies are required to collect and retain IDing info of customers to activate a phone number in Australia. There’s no way around it unfortunately

        • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          You don’t need ID to buy a sim in the US or UK, or most countries in fact. Most sims in Australia are pre-paid, not contract.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        They already are. Well depends on who they are I guess but someone is.

        • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 months ago

          This would be pre vpn or anything else you could do to protect your privacy - if it’s at the OS level it’s before the browser and VPN level

          That’s not happening now, but it’s the only way the are gonna be able to to check content to make sure “ the children are safe “

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      That was already happening, as the option to block sending and receiving of such content was able to be turned on in your screen time settings, and you could mandate it for your children by managing your kids accounts on the family organizers device. If someone is under the age of 13 they are required to be on a family share, and if you don’t have “Ask to Buy” enabled, from what I know you won’t get a refund for anything with the excuse my kid bought this without permission.

      Overall it all seems logical, but in those scenarios the ages and requirements are mostly all controlled by the parent.

      • 7112@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 months ago

        Scary. I had no idea it went beyond the iCloud scans. I avoided the cloud after that celebrity image leak.

        Guess we might see a rise in offline or dumb devices. I wonder how this will affect other nations that already have restrictive internet access. If the US West becomes more locked down where would free and accessible info go?

  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    49·
    2 months ago

    After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)

  • shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml
    44·
    2 months ago

    When I first decided to switch to Linux, I started exclusively using apps that were available on Linux. This way I was able to gradually transition my workflows one app at a time without any rush. When I was ready to install Linux, I did it on a new computer so I still had access to everything on the old computer and there was no risk of going computer-less if the installation went sideways.

    Also, keep in mind that Asahi only works on M1 and M2 Macs. (If you have an old Intel Mac, you can just run normal Linux without Asahi)

    Oh and Veronica Explains has a great video about her experience with Asahi.

    • freedickpics@lemmy.mlOP
      16·
      2 months ago

      This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?

      • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
        92·
        2 months ago

        I hope someday any normal Linux software will be usable in Apple hardware. Unfortunately, there are hurdles.

        One of the biggest hurdles was getting code accepted into the Linux kernel.

        This became very frustrating for the previous Asahi Linux lead developer. He would push upstream code and the Linux developers would not accept it.

        Why didn’t they accept it? Because it was written in memory-safe Rust and not in memory-unsafe C. Old Linux developers don’t want to deal with Rust. So they just refuse to include Asahi Linux updates into normal Linux software.

    • freedickpics@lemmy.mlOP
      181·
      2 months ago

      I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn’t expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be “every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt”. How did we get here?

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        2 months ago

        We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 months ago

          And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
    311·
    2 months ago

    So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware

      • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Probably strong influence from corporations, billionaires, other wealthy people, and NIMBYs, along with fearmongering from establishment media to distract from actual problems. And Democrats realizing they can’t win on a pro-genocide platform so now they have to at least pretend to give a shit.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

    • Goldenring@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      I have a Macbook air now. Do you recommend me to buy a Lenovo thinkpad? Qubes os is the top pick, I heard.

      • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        Linux can run on macbooks, you can probably look up the model online and see if it has good support. I used to run debian on a macbook, though that macbook was from 2013 or something like that.

        On the other hand, if you can sell your macbook and get more than a good thinkpad (for your use) is selling for, I would do that.

        • Goldenring@lemmy.ca
          2·
          2 months ago

          The air model has a M4 chip. Fedora, Whonix and Quebo doesn’t support… I’ll wait for another months.

  • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml
    204·
    2 months ago

    If the West follows into the footsteps of the propaganda they are spreading against China, I’d rather go live in China because at least there people don’t live paycheck to paycheck despite working multiple jobs. Every accusation against China was a confession.

    • Oggyb@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 months ago

      Some people in tier 1 cities don’t live like that, but the vast majority do. As an average person, you would not enjoy China more than your western country.

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    “Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO”

    “Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation”