I just sold my 4 year old desktop for almost the same price I had bought it for. And I don't believe I ripped anyone off. That's how crazy the hardware market is.

> I only buy a new phone when the old phone breaks

Yes, but that wasn't my point.
My point is that phones will get expensive to the point where the cost of upgrading them will be prohibitive, even as a status symbol.
Right now we're at the diminishing returns inflection.

> users who don't have deep pockets are putting off upgrading their [product]

Hasn't the same thing happened to cars?
Next up are phones.

git-filter-branch, or https://github.com/newren/git-... I don't remember the specifics, it's been years since I needed this.

> strict security policies that block the exploit

Which policies block this exploit? The only mention of security policies mitigating this flaw is from grapheneOS : https://discuss.grapheneos.org...

People have been working on identifying this problem for 3 decades.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m...
https://elifesciences.org/arti...
https://www.politico.com/agend...

Yes, our fields are basically growing hydroponics now, but even when grown in healthy soils, you'll grow junkier food than a century ago. Both are a problem, it compounds into mass silent malnutrition.

Doesn't work anymore : physical media contain the first released version of the game, which usually has bugs, so for some games the updates are critical. Thinking of Cyberpunk 2077...

  Downloading, updating and storing installers is IMO the only way now.

Casual gaming on PS5 is already a major PITA. Turn console on once every few months: You've been disconnected from PS account, update firmware, update controller firmware. Sometimes it even wants 2fa. Now it won't let me play until I update? Screw that.

FFS it's a console, those exist so that I just push a button and play. Honestly, at this point using GOG+ Lutris on Linux is a better experience.

For example :
Letting companies use the software without allowing the end user to modify it.
Anti-tivoization clause which prevents a unalterable chain of trust managed by the vendor for every binary on the device.
Requiring service providers to provide sources to software not even running on the user's device. (AGPL) /s - just to be sure

V2L, V2H, V2G, this is getting complex.

If I have a solar system (grid connected) that is capable of feeding my home even when the grid goes out (not just an EPS circuit, and not an island system), which one of the above is able to cooperate with the inverter to pull power from the EV in case of a blackout, with no manual intervention necessary?

iOS Safari in private browsing works around local network blackholing. At least on my network it does.

EVs don't replace cargo ships and trucks. Without those running, we starve.

> 1. It’s not quite this simple, but to a fairly good approximation, the US-Iran war has frozen or knocked offline around 20 percent of the worlds oil and gas. If the war gets bad, the number could climb to 40 percent.

How it's not simple :

It gets a lot more complicated if instead of barrels you count available net energy (how much energy do I get to use from using a barrel of oil to extract a barrel of oil) . The Gulf production is the energetically cheapest in the world, so in net energy terms, it may be more than 20%.

Another point is that exports are usually "overproduction", and many other parts of the world simply can't ramp up production anymore. So when exports disappear, non-producing areas get hit hard and fast.

Finally : Diesel. With current infrastructure, a lot of diesel is produced from what is pumped in the Gulf. Without diesel, movement stops.

> This is not negotiable. Not optional. No amount of prayer, good thoughts, hard work or social media spin will change this. For every barrel of oil we had last year, this year we will have 0.8 barrels or less. You can’t burn fuel that you physically don’t have.

But but but... economics!? If something is lacking, prices increase and a substitute is found! Economics 101.
Planes and tractors will keep running on cheaper $SUBSTITUTE. Or pixie dust.

> Meanwhile on DeutschBahn you are lucky if the train shows up at all and if the heating and a/c are working.

My favourite experience is a broken A/C, but they couldn't shut it off. So outside 30C+, and in the carriage we were freezing our asses off in 15C (Train was completely full).

I haven't followed the developments for a while now: does V2H finally work, is it available in most EVs?