Ah ha! I had searched the article to see if there was a way to do that. Because while it would be awesome to have a file like this, creating it sounded like a pain.
I worked at company_name when the .xxx top level domain became available, and my boss was sure that we should buy company_name.xxx. I talked them out of it. Luckily no one has maliciously registered company_name.xxx all these years later. I guess it could happen any day now.
Capital oriented companies can lead to the correct outcome if the consumer has enough information to distinguish the superior product. One solution to this problem that capitalism has found is UL Listing (Underwriters Laboratories.) Of course you could say they are just outsourcing what should be done by the government. It comes down to who do you trust to not fall into corruption.
They didn't say constant maintenance, they said endless maintenance. 20 minutes a month is a never ending commitment of time. They have better things to think about.
In Richard Feynman's book, "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" he tells the story of his exploits in safe cracking. And the eventual "solution" that the bosses come up with... not to make their safes safer, but to ban Feynman.
_those are for playing MP3s off a flash drive._
I am reminded of the workaround people used to use for inputting streamed audio to their old car stereos through a cassette tape adapter. Could the computer emulate a flash drive somehow?
In ETL work I often come across a nightly job that is harder to implement than most for some snowflakey reason, and I just start my day doing it manually, which might just take a minute. At some point I will get so annoyed that I will take the time to figure it out properly.
The article mentions Chrome OS Flex, which is a version that doesn't require the Google security chip so it runs on a regular Intel PC.
That is "de-Googled" I suppose, though I am not sure about the security implications that you mention.