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by jwrallie 239 days ago
As long as common PCs can boot an iso we should be good to go.
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Only as long as Google doesn't force Web Environment Integrity through. Running a custom OS won't help if important websites refuse to load unless they're running in an approved browser with a set of approved extensions, on an approved OS, on top of approved hardware.
I've been beating the drum that we need mobile drivers licenses and pairwise pseudonyms. It is a path to beating spam and bots in a way that doesn't hand control over to private entities.

Some folks don't like digital identity controlled by government, but it seems like the alternative is digital identity controlled by oligopoly.