• Bloefz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My OS should have no details on me besides the account name which didn’t necessarily correspond to my real name.

    It does have some old fields for location etc but those stem from the times of massive multi user systems.

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      6 months ago

      Linux has similar fields for realName, emailAddress, location, timezone and more. But like birthdate, I think they’re all optional.

      Was Linux ever used for massive multiuser systems? I thought it had always been primarily home use and internet servers. I think big multiuser systems went out of fashion with Solaris. Well, I suppose corporate workstations need user accounts where some of these are set.