@old_angry_queer @terminaltilt @grote the screenshot literally says "or device PIN"
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A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.@elly @sleepyowl imo the urgent crisis rn is with Android OEMs which are walking back on the whole "OEM unlock bootloader" contract. Full control from the reset vector up was always hard to get (esp. on retail consumer devices) beyond a certain level of platform complexity, was always a freedom-nerd niche desire. But both the PC and Android contracts included custom OS support because there's real demand for that. Evidently some vendors are still somewhat cool (Moto collab with Graphene sounds positive?) but between Xiaomi announcing straight up "no more unlock for you" and OnePlus doing weird efuse-blowing things it's the most worrying space right now x_x
We really need to build an actually compelling and desirable platform (see the Modal.cx vision) with the best FOSS components we have, with which we would be able to campaign for our requirements much better. IMO just having abstract and nerdy demands would never get wider political/regulatory/business/NGO/etc attention, while "this is the free people's digital sovereignty sustainable green repair awesomeplatform we want X Y Z requirements to be met for our future innovation to unlock freedom horizons and independent sovereign cyber security" is the best shot we can have.
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A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.@bunny pushback was definitely a part of it; also failure in the market. The 32-bit Windows RT devices were trying really hard to be iPads, but absolutely no one wanted just the walls with no garden inside.
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A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.@sleepyowl FWIW the current "contract" for what "a PC" even is (i.e. the requirements to get WHQL certified by MS) specifically defines that it must be possible to completely disable OS verification (UEFI Secure Boot) or use the user's own keys for it, out of the box without any extra requirements.
Firmware verification on every boot (Boot Guard et al) —which has already been widely enabled in Intel-based PC laptops of the last decade— did not change that, on its own.
Of course the policies are subject to change, but I think even Microsoft themselves would be really pissed about having to change any of this due to legal bullshit.