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So, I am a man. I do identify as a man. What does that have to do with anything?

I hate idiots who need dangerous toys to feel manly, because they have nothing else that would make them a man.

If a gun is the only thing that makes you a man, then you are no man, but just a little boy who never grew up.

Tag along, kiddo. Maybe one day you'll understand what a man is.

I did post an exact description a bit higher above, but you focussed on the one detail that really doesn't matter in this equation (ARM vs x86, even though it's exactly the same in that regard, and there are also x86 Android devices) and neither read nor understood the rest of my answer.

And you used that missing knowledge on your side to invalidate my answer without even understanding what it was about.

And you could, very big revelation, also just google before posting nonsense.

u/EatYouWell responded exactly the right way.

Have you heard of Android running on x86?

I had an x86 Android tablet and that was exactly as locked-down as an ARM Android device.

But anyhow: I can lock down a x86 laptop or PC the way I was describing within a very short time.

So again:

• Put a password on the BIOS
• Set Secure Boot on
• Wipe all Secure Boot keys and put your own in there
• Encrypt the disk so that you can't just plop the drive into another PC and modify its content
• Set the root user to "Can only login with private key" and don't give the key to the customers
• Remove all users from sudoers
• Use chown root:root and chmod 700 on anything you don't want the user to touch

And if a company was doing this to their products (e.g. the Steam Deck), they'd replace the first 3 steps with a custom BIOS which just doesn't let you change anything in regards to Secure Boot and Secure Boot keys. That way, removing the BIOS battery won't help.

There are countless embedded devices using an x86 PC at their core, where they did exactly that. (E.g. ATMs or medical devices)

Also Chromebooks are exactly that.

And the Playstation 5 does the same thing, only it's based on FreeBSD.

The thing is, what use case can benefit from a blockchain?

Scamming, gambling, crime and speculation benefited from the lack of regulation, but barely cared about the underlying concept of a bitcoin.

But for anything real, much better solutions have existed for decades or centuries.

Blockchain is a solution without a problem and has been that for 25 years now.

If you have a solution that hasn't found a problem in 25 years, chances are that there will never be an actual problem that solution would solve.

So the killer apps of blockchain remain scamming, gambling, speculation and crime. Until there are more stringent regulations, then they'll go back to Western Union and Paysafe cards.

Tieing down a Linux installation is actually pretty easy.

• Lock the BIOS down so that it can only boot a Valve-signed OS
• Remove root access on the OS
• chown root:root on anything you don't want the users to touch

It's pretty much the same as Android device vendors are doing.

Happy to help!

Btw, check out Netguard (either the F-Droid version or the one from Github, since these two versions allow system-wide adblocking).

And Newpipe.

If you don't know these apps yet, they will change how you use your Android device.

Do you think pulling a gun against a cop will help you get home safely?

(I am not argueing against your point that there are bad cops. I just don't think pulling a gun against a cop will help you stay safe.)

No. You know your argument is not appropriate. I don't need to tell you that.

You argueing that way, because you want your guns and have to find a moral excuse so that it doesn't look like your only argument is "Boom Boom Manly Man Boom".

You are argueing in bad faith, so no need to engage in that argumentation.

No. Just no.

I think that emulates anarchism pretty well.

dd if=/dev/random of=anarchism bs=1024 count=1024;chmod 755 anarchism;./anarchism

I hope you don't use a sword for the same purpouse as a penis.