If my laptop is offline can I just not use it because it can’t confirm my id?

Yes. The powers at be will stop at nothing to take more, and more, and more power away from you. This is human nature.

In a way, science is just a formal way of recording things, obvious or not, in a way that the crap can be vetted out. Would you prefer podcasts to be our recorded history?

Do nothing about school shootings. Destroy hobbies and manufacturing instead. America is rotting from the inside.