Heh no worries I think I did that in a lot of my comments on here today too!

I feel like that’s sort of dodging the spirit of the question in favor of discouraging a common layman complaint? A modern car has hundreds if not thousands of ICs beyond the 2 or 3 required to run a cat so “You’ll die of asthma without a catalytic converter” isn’t really a terribly applicable response to the “Why is my VW a tangled mess of parallel plugs, sensors, and shockingly often general purpose CPUs?” that was the energy of my [I thought rhetorical] question.

I do cede, we need at least some of them to keep these clunkers from immediately obliterating our environments and themselves. It’s just that almost all of them need not be more complex than “24 transistors in a plastic shell” that almost any nation has the capability to fab. I guess a rephrasing of my gist is “We shouldn’t rely world elite microscopic lithography facilities to make an automobile”.

A monthlong standoff between China and the Netherlands over Nexperia has prompted carmakers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan to warn of possible production problems due to chip shortages. Although the chips Nexperia makes are very basic, they are used in large numbers in the electronic systems of cars.

Man I dunno maybe stop turning cars into computers?

So you mean android-compatible devices with a supported method for unlocking? Because you can also jailbreak most locked bootloaders through unsupported means.

I wasn’t actually aware that OnePlus have a supported route and that they were the only other brand who do. I jailbroke my own OnePlus :P

Do you mean android-compatible? Because there are a lot of android-compatible device manufacturers with unlockable bootloaders outside of Google themselves. Like the OnePlus I’m currently using.

“Nothing could ever make me want to gouge my eyes out with a ballpoint pen”, I said to myself just before reading this comment.

Speak for yourself!

I technically disagree, most periods human history had “good times” and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.

How long did it last this time? Two days?

Not sure. What do you mean by that?

There’s only one kind of violence: The kind where a party uses power to deprive another party of a current or potential freedom. We tend to conflate violence with physical force, and much of it is that, but it isn’t limited to that nor are the means of the nation state.

(To be clear the user above conflated capitalism with fiat currency, this answer works for both)

I do think the entirety of capitalism is dumb. Hierarchies that obscure, enable, and aggrandize violence are lame.

nation state trust

violence

You say that as if you don’t think the entirety of capitalism is dumb.

Maybe she should read her emails in case her intern has to inform her of a sick day.

Seems to me like the wrong way to address the problem. But I guess it’s easier to ban people with no political voice from a vital tool for social connectivity than it is to hold the large companies hosting those tools accountable for socially-damaging practices.

Is this loss?

Yeah, it’s the part where the US military is summarily executing civilians right at his country’s doorstep.

Many of these people literally, honestly believe they’re building Roko’s basilisk.