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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)

submitted 14 hours ago by workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don't buy computers with locked parts. Buy computers with non locked parts. Problem solved.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that easy earlier all phones had unlocked or unlockable bootloader but now only few do. Even xiomi once hailed as cheap phone for custom ROMs now has unlockable bootloader

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

now only few do

That's the one you buy then if that's what matters to you.

To be clear I'm not saying it's "easy" or that the situation is "good", only that there are choices and if we as consumers can support them, and as voted can support politicians that do make legislation to protect them (or at least not make others mandatory) then we are still going in the right direction, even if most people don't care.