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What’s the plan when hardware manufacturers are legally required to add an age verification TPM-like module that only enables verified OS’s to boot?

I hope things won’t go that way but I do think it’s likely they will.

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Individual ownership of networked general purpose computers, and the ability to organize dissent they create, are too dangerous for many powerful interests. It has always seemed inevitable to me that computers will be taken away from us.



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