Age verification isn't sage verification inside OSes: California's legal lunacy

My opinion in response to their opinion is that people should plan for the worst and hope for the best. My personal plan is to back up the ISO's of every OS I use and accept the possibility I will have to manually patch applications outside of the normal artifact build process and when I can not then I may have to make the OS read-only or some level of "ephemeral" and not put any sensitive data through the OS. I assume that interested parties know this will be a PITA and most will not do it.

This is of course not a new concept. Ages ago people would make and distribute their own ISO for Windows 98 that had patches (service packs), adjusted default settings, optimizations, registration removal and sometimes malware embedded in the ISO. So I guess we will have to appoint trusted parties to make custom MacOS, Windows, Linux, BSD ISO images. Old hardware and BIOS may become very valuable and sought after when laws start requiring shenanigans tied to TPM's or custom CPU's that integrate such age verification lock-downs. This may be vindication or justification for data and hardware hoarders and a boon for malware distribution.

Only catch is that people would have to stop using sites that implement this type of verification. Their domain names could be an optional list in uBlock.

What could be a catchy name?

- "The Great Internet Forkening" TGIF

- "For Uncensored Based Age Restriction" FUBAR

Too cringe I suppose.