AmoxtliCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
RobotToasterHow will this affect embedded os like freertos or vxworks? There are lightbulbs that have operating systems these days, am I going to have to show ID to turn on my light?
As those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no.
From the law text:
© “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.
lime!cool, then neither is my desktop pc. i get all my software on 5 1/4" floppies.
despoticruinI forgot to include nm and wpa supplicant to my arch install before I committed it to disk and am now stuck installing everything from offline pacman caches carried to my via local homeless people in the form of random USB sticks found in parking lots. Prove me wrong.