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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

They’d have to completely kill the ability to build your own machine (the whole “IBM compatability” thing) and I don’t see that happening when almost every business and factory uses their own custom shit for specific niche reasons.

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toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not really. The pieces are already in place with UEFI and Secure Boot. All that would need to happen would be to force Secure Boot to be enabled, and only preload keys for an approved list of operating systems. With that, your fancy new motherboard may not be able to boot and run the OS of your choice.

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- discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Then all the software nerds become hardware nerds, and the cycle continues.
  
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