nixCraft 🐧Damn 😱 imaging not being able to download your OS because of where you live right now ...
Elena Rossini ⁂@nixCraft is this real? 😳😱
Luca SironiTheoretically yes, that's exactly what that stupid California law says.
Windows, macOS, Linux—all operating systems.
It'll be interesting to see how they think this could ever be implemented in practice.
After smartphones, they're trying to screw up computers too.
Better to take care of our hardware
Ludwig Vielfrass@luca @_elena @nixCraft More controls on your operating system, AI businesses gobbling up hardware to make it extraordinarily expensive, age verification laws...it's hard to not equate this to a war on general computing for the masses that doesn't get rented from cloud companies, thoroughly penetrated by the surveillance state.