Isn’t this already a thing to some degree with sodium acetate pads?

Or at least that’s what people are saying anyways.

No, because if you come across this on a desktop, you’ll have to whip your Android or iOS device out to scan a QR code for verification… On your desktop… Linking your desktop to your phone.

Markus Kaarlonen’s own remix of Space Debris comes to mind as an updated version of a classic track.

The original’s great too, though.

Also, Jacob Szelag’s Through the Nature is a pretty good remix of the Eyewitness theme.

The Alan Wilkis remix of The Who’s Baba O’Riley.

And desktops in general?

That’s gonna be really hard with the increasing amount of sites that push this.

And desktop users? Will Linux and any non-Google Chrome browsers be locked out now?

So, is this the replacement for WEI by what some of the comments here are suggesting?

Because Google rigged the system in their favor.

How soon before government thin clients connected to a heavily-censored state intranet are the only devices people can legally get and own?

That’s fine.

I’m calling AluminumOS out as the threat that it potentially is if it actually gains traction. If AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows and Mac for desktop marketshare, desktops will be guaranteed to end up being locked down like mobiles. I’m actually scared about AluminumOS and how it’s being positioned.

Oh, and I’m on Artix right now.

…you can’t just “hope” Google’s going to fix everything wrong with Windows when they’re doing the same exact thing as each other.

• I’m not, I’m hoping AluminumOS doesn’t actually take off and succeed because Google’s gonna make things even worse than they already are with Windows. Like, at least you can still uninstall Windows, you can’t really uninstall Android anymore, and if AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows for marketshare, that same restriction will be applied there too. Like I said, if AluminumOS takes off and becomes the dominant desktop OS, Google is going to lock down desktops like they’re about to lock down phones.

On top of desktops getting turned from the last remotely open platform into existence into locked-down black boxes fully controlled by Google if AluminumOS actually succeeds, and Google’s positioning it in a way that it might just succeed, positioning it in between Win10 getting deprecated and Win11’s continuing enshittification, Google could just severely undercut the cheapest Win11 PCs and the Macbook Neo and gain marketshare by selling AluminumOS devices as a significantly cheaper option than Win11 PCs or Macs. If that happens, and that tactic actually works and PCs and Macs get overtaken in the desktop market by AluminumOS devices, it’s game over for desktops as an open platform.

If AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows and Mac marketshare, desktops are headed in the same direction as mobiles.

More like we’re known for a lot of petty crimes among other things, like, someone’s going to steal anything that isn’t tied down in your yard, and in some cases even when it’s tied down, someone will just cut the chain or cable and make off with it.

Lawton, OK: We’re not called the ‘Shady 580’ for no reason.

Thanks!

Mainly doodling and art in general.

Next step, you won’t own your devices anymore, and the end game is a state intranet on government thin clients.

All lobbied for by Meta.

This is gonna kill the Fediverse and that is the intention.

Too bad this sorta thing is trying to go federal now.