It also allows your favorite bogeyman (Government, Deep State, Facist Regime, whatever floats your boat) to knock a site off the internet faster. Poof, this domain is blacklisted, can't renew SSL... now the site looks like a black sheep to ... uh... the sheep.

I'm sure there will be no abuse.

... over at https://www.underhanded-c.org/

Taught me more about C than most [single] books.

I wish that kept going, or could be handed to someone who could reboot it.

Sigh

The thought of a closed source firmware phone in this day and age is so much a non-starter. I won't touch a phone without an unlockable bootloader, at least unofficial support for one of the AOSP variants, and optimally a relockable bootloader. Bonus points for EDL support.

They don't share their EDL keys. Without that, you can still lock yourself out via an AFU flash.

They are also really hard to get in 'Murica.

It's a great attempt, but they fail to stick the landing.

Having cut my driving teeth on manual transmissions over 30 years ago, I came to say the same thing. I am happier with the "connection" I have with an EV than any automatic transmission I have ever driven. As the EV always has the torque I want at any speed, I don't need to move the RPM into the right range to accelerate or engine brake. Oh, and aggressive regenerative breaking so feels like engine braking.

Though I will always be nostalgic for the "whole body experience" that clutch, break/accelerator, transmission lever, and steering wheel provided, I am "satisfied" with the improved connectivity I feel driving an EV vs. an automatic transmission or CVT.

^^THIS^^

No mod points to give, sorry. Just like Mozilla/Thunderbird... too many religious wars to "advance" to something new, even if "new" is less functional than its predecessors.

But yeah, wish someone would back-port OAuth2 et al. Y'know, like actually ADDING new stuff as the world demands it.

If you want a cell phone that supports US cell bands (meaning, no internationals that only do like 1 out of 5 a US carrier may use) and has an easily unlockable bootloader, there aren't a lot of options. The Google phones, OnePlus, and *SOME* Motorolas are all I know of other than some very rare and expensive outliers (like the Asus ROG).

Most of the phones still have proprietary radio code and other hidden partitions of unknown makeup (other than to maybe government agencies) that even a AOSP overwrite won't fix... and running without security updates to those can be... concerning.

If you want it FOSS, try Koler off of F-Droid. I like it better than Simple tools.

For those of us too lazy to spend half the day looking, do you have a recommendation for one of these that allows a US address, reasonable SMS, voice and data while "roaming" on US carriers? In my travels in Europe, most countries wanted a passport or similar absurd amount of paperwork to associate with a SIM- the Netherlands was the only one where EUR20 got a sim card from a vending machine in the airport with no questions asked.

Real question here, couldn't the site just switch to a cryptocurrency to get around this?

It may not be as easy as dollars, euro, or whatever it is operating in now, but wouldn't that work? What am I missing as a finance novice?

Much of the world's economy relies on consumption. In the US much of that consumption happens in the last three months of the year. US shipping is expecting to have between a 4.7 and 5 million packages per day deficit. If retailers can not get goods in stock in October they can not "demand shape" to try to get people to order/buy before the expected shipping peak in November. Long story short, there are going to be some unhappy people that feel they need a gift at Christmas this year. Retailers can't get stock, and once they finally get it they can't ship much of it. This is going to affect the bottom line for many retailers. It could be enough to push some out of business. Causing some people to lose jobs they have had for years. Hopefully, the labor shortage means they will be able to find better-paying jobs quickly.

The most important question is, of course, if it comes with an unlocked or unlockable (without any drama) bootloader. Everything else is water under the bridge without that.

No big deal. Plenty of space in the physical pipeline between refinery and consumption that the electricity replaces to put a HV powerline. Just replace the refinery with whatever, and the end of the pipeline with an electric substation.