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do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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i think they will. or worse yet they can make it without bios at all just device tree and all that garbage that phones do. then make it subsction based,filled with ai,cloud streamed only. no apps outside store. but thats too much orwellian stuff for now,i think what will happen is the locking bios thing for now.

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

I don't think it'll come globally at all - even the most crazy laws I've read so far target "only" OS vendors.

If it comes it'll be regional only as manufacturers will be hell bent on not losing revenue in the rest of the world.

Keep in mind that age verification needs to be done on a local level as there is no universal level of what is an acceptable method.