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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • Exactly.

    What the attestation system would do is give some government agency de facto control over which OSs could be installed on phones.

    Right now, using GrapheneOS and being outside of corporate attestation chains just means that you can’t use the NFC payment system. It could very well be that every major commercial service would deny you access if you couldn’t pass an attestation verification via some browser API.

    An example would be if age verification were a thing, they could ‘think of the children’ argue their way into only allowing OSs with age verification systems which are approved by the government to access social media or any website that would be considered 18+.

    EU countries have already tried attacking GrapheneOS as a tool of criminals. It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to see how they would refuse to allow ‘the criminal OS’ to be part of their attestation chain. Or if chat control passes, only devices that implement the mass surveillance spyware would be allowed to be attested. The government wouldn’t allow non-compliant operating systems to pass their tests.

    The point of an attestation chain is to provide control over which devices are allowed to be verified and to use that verification status to gate access to services.











  • To add to this, the big thing you get when using Gentoo is to setup your compiler to use all of the optimizations for your exact CPU/other hardware.

    The binaries for arch are built for generic x86-64, while your Gentoo system could bet setup to include AMD-specific optimizations or to remove code paths that you would never used based on your hardware.

    The result will be that the binaries will typically be smaller and optimized specifically for your hardware.

    The downside is that a system update will take you half a day of churning your CPU on compiling.







  • I haven’t tested this, but fairly sure you could just install vortex, mo2 or whatever other modmanager to same prefix as where the game is.

    Yeah, you can use protontricks to execute any executable inside the WINE environment. You can take the command used to do that and put it in a .desktop file so you can run the program from a desktop icon or launcher.

    Installing mods mostly considered a ‘problem’ by the standard of gaming on Steam where you just press play and let Proton take the wheel. If you were running games through WINE prior to Proton, it is much easier now.