Wait, solar panels are hard to use? When did they fuck that up?

“Let them eat ram”

Also likely also counts for the mag strip readers. Looks like carbon paper rubbing is back on the menu!

What an odd thing to say. I do think that california based projects/products will try to follow (at least show an attempt) as you say but as big a market cali is there just is no reason for a OS (more so a donation funded linux one) to pander to one state.

1798.503(b) An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user’s age range or any conduct by a developer that receives a signal indicating a user’s age range.

OR instead of having to collect that info at all you just put “OS not for cali” on the user agreement and just not deal with the risk.

Well its stupid broad, but I don’t think they can even pretend to do things to non commercial products (as in not a product). I think this will just end up like the cancer warnings, companies will just put the label on everything.

The law’s definition for operating system provider includes “general purpose computing device” so no, your toaster, microwave, and fridge are not included. (please remember that legal definitions do not always match how we would use the term in everyday conversation)

That does mean (by legal definitions in California) your toaster, microwave and fridge.

And really the choice of “pulling” support from areas with issue laws is the way, this law is not enforceable as written and is likely the easiest way for any OS to avoid legal issues. Just putting in a line that the OS is not supported in the state will not stop the OS being used but will stop legal issues from said state.

Naw, crime is legal now.

Oh neat, just one step away from having AI buy the game for me as well.

Great timing then, just as the states becomes a global pariah making every one else on earth have to reevaluate any business done with american based firms. Nations are worried about massive instability and war, no one has the appetite to gamble big on unproven tech dreams.

Yes and like IBM they are in the business of getting out of business, and business is good!

There is no way the states is a real place. That’s beyond crooked and clearly trying to push people into using a 3rd party product.

My local store can not even get a reliable source of staple foods (the distributor often shorts them milk, meat or whatever), there is no way this:

A) Works

B) Is adopted by any non large store

C) Is accepted as anything but a hated cash grab

I will buy that for a dollar. (no really lettuce for a $1 is worth the hack)

Oh yeah, the states is like that right… I meant for filing and claming tax benefits.

Tax filing?

Ah shit, this is all for child porn again… Can the fucking tech industry just not do this every few months?!

Maybe for a space based population a data center in space would work. This is just taking off site hosting too far.

Yes

Youre complaining that they attempt to advance technology to acquire marketshare?

Yes, it is a colossal industry wide issue of “needing” a new product in a rapidly decreasing window regardless of the utility of the product.