Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)

• BroiledShit@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, because fuck you. Ownership is for pussies, do you really want to own what you buy? Just buy a new one if you have problems. my hope is that we eventually get to a point where you cant even build your own PC. Gaming PCs all built by Nvidia woth the latest Geforce built in to the motherboard. With a subscription fee to use it, im talking cheap like only $20/month. and then in a year it can sleep gently in a landfill. Oh and a feature that sets your house on fire and mangles your genitals. and if you try to turn that off, you get sued. it was in the TOS, just dont use a computer if that bothers you, shithead. the future is bright.

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• anothernobody@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You own the hardware but not the software.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And that includes the firmware required for you to load your software.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Case in point:

  Find a recently-ish manufactured used Chromebook/chromebox, and try to unlock the BIOS so you can slap a different OS on it

  Source: it me 🫠

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• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Without software access it is useless until you are able to jailbreak it.

  Which is technically a breach of contract at the very least and could be deemed IP theft by a brain dead USian judge.

  So you can't even commercialize your solution because capitalism works 1 way.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.

  /s

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