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I feel sure the EU would quickly adopt a version of the same law, but find a way to make it a bit harsher.
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someone legit dmed me a few days ago saying he was switching to gentoo, immediately gave up on it because it kept glitching out, and now uses artix
he was one of those people who said systemd is the best init and would never use anything else just a few months ago and then as soon as he found out systemd had like 8 claude commits he became an anti systemd evangelist
also as soon as he did this he started sending me messages talking about how low his ram usage is and how fast his computer starts up and shuts down now, and how easy it was to write an openrc service but had to ask some stuff like how to setup pipewire on openrc
hes also becoming a bit of a bsd guy but because its bsd hes having hardware issues so artix is his compromise solution for bsd-like init with the hw compat of linux
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Definitely, though right now the EU is busy making sure that each member country appoints unaccountable, all-powerful censors to shape public discourse theough the Digital Services Act, and that no new European tech companies are ever founded again without the backing of enormous capital through the Cyber Resilience Act. The bureaucrats have been busy little bees recently.
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I honestly don't care if I get prosecuted for not complying with thinly-veiled surveillance laws.
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As much as I'm blackpilled on this stuff. I still think that is something that would get too much push back. It would be insane if they shipped locked down bootloaders on most laptops, and desktops. Especially with the kind of userbase normal computers have compared to phones.
You won't. These laws go after the companies/organizations providing package managers, operating systems, app stores etc. Which means these are actually going to be enforced. Because they aren't going to take the risk of whatever insane fine they might get if they don't. For an end user, the only problem with not complying with be at some point figuring out how to do that, while not losing functionality. Or even figuring out how to do it (depending on what you are using).
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ARM-based Windows computers are already like this, unfortunately. So are Chromebooks and Chromeboxes; you actually need to open up the hardware and remove a screw in order to unlock it in most cases.
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Open Source-oids when they find out TiVoization is not some theoretical problem but a very real thing that is basically the norm in large swaths of the computing industry. Stallman has never not been vindicated, GNU know this.
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I don't think torpedoing your project with turd world sludge is what people meant when they said "I want some more Windows stuff", Debian.
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I mean they were fine with having the literal founder of Debian, Ian Murdock, assassinated just to make sure he couldn't oppose the infestation of Debian by systemd, so......
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It's already happened in China. I made several posts about it. The MPS in China mandated secure bootloaders which cannot be unlocked with OEM specific codes for phones, and made the mandate for laptops and PCs for commercial use soon (this year). If you don't think companies in the US are licking their chops and trying to get congress to mandate this I don't know what to say.
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I suspect something like this is the point of the mandatory kernel-level age verification. If it's illegal to boot your operating system without personally identifying the user, well, Microsoft and Apple benefit because that's why they have online accounts in the first place, and both are basically already complying. It's zero cost for them to implement, all they need to do is remove the ability to register an account without the online component, which is something Microsoft have been trying to do for a long while anyway, and which Apple haven't yet done, but as so many of the features are tied to the online account, few users would want to circumvent the online account. Linux has nothing of the sort, even in commercial distros like Red Hat and Ubuntu, so it's a much bigger hurdle to clear.
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im confused isnt tivoization a problem where linux is used by locked down devices, y would that affect non-tivoized devices
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+1, just wish it was 16:10
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRIM, first Bicha now Jeetcha, and down the drain we go.
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A chromebook/chrome-anything is a an operating system meant to boot into a browser basically. It's worse than a phone to me. As for arm based stuff going that direction, it makes sense they would do it on that (not that using a locked down bootloader makes sense, but it makes sense it would happen on an arm processor being that's what phones tend to use. I'm sure windows loves an excuse to stop the ability for the user to get rid of their shit agentic operating system.)
Even if they want to. I do actually think this would be enough to finally get some kind of wider pushback. This isn't exactly a small move. Having it codified in law is a huge step over shitty companies that chosse to do it, and it's a huge step even beyond this current wave of os level age attestation.
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"New guidelines were issued by the EPA today, explaining that old Thinkpads have environmentally dangerous levels of heavy metals in them. Officials warn that all models older than 2022 should be decommissioned and recycled. They've announced a voluntary buyback program starting next month, which will become mandatory next year."
Old hardware can't save us from a system dedicated to enshittification. Cash For Clunkers was just a test run.
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Ok. it's getting to a level of conspiracy theory beyond what even I'm willing to go to.
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I always wondered why folks were still so loyal to ThinkPads. Yes, they were well-known for being the most Linux-compatible 20-25 years ago, but ThinkPads have sucked for the past decade.
Now I know it’s because the heavy metals made them retarded.
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Speaking of locked down bootloaders.
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Your comment makes it sound like locking a bootloader down is an ultimately pointless exercise. But Microsoft got everything they wanted by doing so, so it was a complete success for them despite it getting hacked 12 years later.
The goals for locking down a game console are:
1. Preventing game piracy. Microsoft stopped Xbox One piracy for the entire effective lifespan of the console and forced people to buy their games at retail prices. Big win.
2. Preventing the Xbox One from getting turned into the cheapest PC on the market, like the 2001/2 Xbox hacks did and which must have pissed off Microsoft’s hardware vendor partners. Ok, now you can change out the operating system. But over the past 12 years PCs have gotten exponentially faster, so you’ve just spent a ton of time liberating shitty old hardware.