workgoodMar 4

do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64759898

do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows? - Divisions by zero

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. what do you think?

Show threadlemmefixdat4u
Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker. There has to be a lot of vertical integration under one company, the way it is with Apple products. Otherwise there are other OS like Linux that comprise enough of the market to ensure there will always be an unlocked BIOS option.
Mar 4 at 7:42amWeb
Show threadutopiahMar 4
Doesn’t matter, Microsoft already sell computers, i.e. Surface. One can still buy computers from other manufacturers. They can buy an instance of the entire stack (pretty much as Apple did) and there would still be alternatives.