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How is this going to play out in reality?

Are OSes going to ban sales in Illinois?

Are the 8,000 flavors of Linux going to comply? What about adduser?

Will we be using bootleg or foreign OSes soon?

What an asinine law.

Over time, require trusted boot and a TPM. Require a signed age-verification cert to get tokens to access io devices and net. It feels like part of a long play to claw unregulated general purpose computing out of the hands of the masses. Or, at least, get as much as can be moved into the cloud which can be easily surveilled and shut down.

I'm actually interested in the more mundane things, like how would this play out with self check out? Calculators? Vending machines…

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