My thoughts exactly. We're probably witnessing the beginning of the end of linux users being able to run their own kernels. Soon:

- your bank won't let you log in from an "insecure" device.

- you won't be able to play videos on an "insecure" device.

- you won't be able to play video games on an "insecure" device.

And so on, and so forth.

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dijit 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unfortunately the parent commenter is completely right.

The attestation portion of those systems is happening on locked down devices, and if you gain ownership of the devices they no longer attest themselves.

This is the curse of the duopoly of iOS and Android.

BankID in Sweden will only run with one of these devices, they used to offer a card system but getting one seems to be impossible these days. So you're really stuck with a mobile device as your primary means of identification for banking and such.

There's a reason that general purpose computers are locked to 720p on Netflix and Disney+; yet AppleTV's are not.

	▲	yxhuvud an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Afaik bankid will actually run as long as you can install play store (IE the device don't need Google certificate), which isn't great but a little bit better than what it could have been.

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seba_dos1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is already the world we live in when it comes to the most popular personal computing devices running Linux out there.