Look at this
Look better
Due to high demand, there is a limit of 1 per order.
AHHHHH
Scalpers are going to do business.
That's the other downside to all of this.
PS5 disc drives are going to be in incredibly high demand.
And I don't even want to think about what will happen to the used prices of PS5 physical games.
They'll skyrocket.
I'd like to point 2 things out.
First is some evidence has come out that sony's numbers of "digital vs physical" heavily favoring digital is including ps plus, dlc, indies with no physical copies and microtransactions, basically when physical was a option, it appears to favor physical by 50-75% most of the time depending on the game (third party games were more likely to be closer to 50%, though i'd like to point out these games were also on pc, which muddies the waters, ps5 exclusives heavily favored physical).
Second, sony never actually restocked the disc drive, they "offered" it as a justification for the ps5 pro to not have a disc drive and calm sentiment to a extent, but never intended to actually allow it to get too far into the wild.
Sony's been planning this for years, they just finally cut the line.
Not enough people buy discs for movies and games to justify the supply chain.
Retooling their factory infrastructure for microlenses will keep Sony alive longer, so they can continue making all the shitty games you wouldn't buy or play anyway.
Linux distros like Arch are being self censored for even openly discussing the mechanisms around implementation. Unelected bureaucrats around the world are malicious, want more control, and they have the means to ram through policy shifts that impose liabilities on maintainers, users, etc.
Impossible goals are typically just gravy train meal tickets paid for by taxpayers.
First half, look above.
Second half.
Arch is actually being pretty neutral on this, but yes some distros, namely ubuntu, pop_os and red hat/fedora are very much looking into implementing this while others have outright refused, i know this guy's kind of disliked in some circles due to his open neutrality of software stance, but brian lunduke has made a list of distros and operating systems that either intend to/already have implemented age verify, and ones that refuse to implement it:
The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
github.com
Of these none of the arch distros have said they will implement age verify with only cachy os being iffy on it, another distro that is not listed here is open mandriva, though from my understanding they don't intend to implement it, they may offer a version for areas where it is required and thus don't fit the rules of the list.
Steam-os by it's very nature already has age verify as it requires you to log into your steam account to set it up but isn't added to the list yet.
While gentoo hasn't made a official statement, by it's very nature it would be literally impossible to implement it by the gentoo team, it would have to be implemented by the user, this is likely the case for base arch linux as well.
I also must mention that the colorado and california laws specifically have carve-outs for not requiring linux to do so in it's law due to the nature of the operating systems and the MASSIVE problems it would cause in the business and workstation sectors.
I think the government plan is to force websites to ask for it. And barr you don't provide a digital id.
In my country they are already asking for personal details when registering an internet domain with the national extension. They're turning on the heat slowly.
You'll be able to provide a fake online id, but that'll be falsification and punished by law. And you'll probably be able to not ask for an online id, but if you provide "unsafe" content they'll slap you a cumulative punitive fee to force you to comply.
They can try, but as the uk law proved, it doesn't work at the phone level, which is a locked down system, it's going to be 100x harder at the pc level, probably to the point of impossible.
I'm sure they will try and make it illegal, just like piracy is illegal, but it's a beast they can't control and enforcing it will just piss more people off while 100 more fabricate it due to the one person being railroaded.
Alot of sites will probably start hosting their servers in nations that won't implement this, which the host nations also don't want because it will cost them tax revenue.
Basically they are trying to push as much as they can without tipping over the glass, if they push too hard a "dark internet" similar to the dark web will form where the government's will have absolutely no control, so they can't push so hard that they reach china's levels without literally blocking all communication outside their nations, which in turn would cause well, what i mentioned above.
