nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjy2hmdxuja6ta4l5eyjukkszgc5384syecxt6250su5036kdgusqfpd00f (nprofile…d00f) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqwvdduc0ag4f52utyuj6tycglevzjtzp7xyujycmv843a44rvrq8qxg5cx7 (nprofile…5cx7) Linux distros do not require or even encourage the making of an account with the distro creator in order to use it, save for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Since RHEL requires an account to get updates and that is a paid account, it is proprietary. Therefore, RHEL may have to either comply or defy, and thus the birthdate field is likely to stay in systemd, with all that implies for future trust in systemd itself. If SteamOS is proprietary, RHEL may also be depending on how exactly the law is worded.
It is another fingerprintable variable BTW. Since many are setting this to the 1/1/1970 epoch beginning, this should be the most common and least fingerprintable value. It's what Ageless Linux uses for instance.
