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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no.

From the law text:

(c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered.

It's way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Definitely broad and "just trust us bro" energy.

I'm looking for orgs fighting the Colorado one. I got "replaced" by AI recently, so I have all the time in the world to write letters, make calls, and go to town halls. I just don't want to do it alone.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cool, then neither is my desktop pc. i get all my software on 5 1/4" floppies.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The quote is that it can download an application though

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

it can't.

try to disprove me.

[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

I forgot to include nm and wpa supplicant to my arch install before I committed it to disk and am now stuck installing everything from offline pacman caches carried to my via local homeless people in the form of random USB sticks found in parking lots. Prove me wrong.