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Run browser and/or mpv directly on hardware? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzRf8B-oDk

Would it be possible to run mpv and a browser directly on hardware somehow? Perhaps in an environment that doesn't classify as an operating system according to the definition in those California codes?

I know that an operating system distributes workloads and facilitates communication between various hardware components, but would it be possible to build a Linux kernel that is "only" an interface to the CPU, a GPU, a sound card and a keyboard? One that can take commands to run for instance a browser^[Nowadays, a browser feels like a container that can run most things a physical computer would: stream media, serve as a word processor, play simple games, what have you.] and mpv? Having the user manually - through commands of physical switches - handle the inter component communication? Or perhaps by being a kernel it already falls under the definition of an OS?

I'm just spitballing here. Barely know what I'm talking about, so please enlighten me! :D

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[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right. Would you say then, that trying to preemptively circumvent a yet untested law is a waste of resources and time? As in, it's better to wait and see how authorities and courts will handle and implement the law?

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For users yes - for developers, as much as it saddens me, no.

Ubuntu for example started the discussion about what they need to do to show their the demanded effort was being put into.

It's the devs that are put at risk here - and I dare say by design. If this just correlates or is caused by the support from the big OS corporations one can only speculate. My speculation is: at the very least strongly influenced.