Usually no permit required if its not connected to the grid 🙂

I do some small-scale solar installs and the rate of pricing decline is insane. Even in a world where everything is getting more expensive, solar panels, electronics, and batteries all continue to rapidly fall in price.

Advertising doesn’t have to be the way it is.

Unrelated note:

We finally have the technology

We had the technology in like 1998. RSS doesn’t solve this problem because publications stopped offering full articles a long time ago. You still have to open the site to read them.

On another note, the author left out that PC gamer hijacks your browser history to show more articles when you try to back out of the site.

Many distros are run by large companies that don’t care. RedHat, Canonical, etc.

…it is?

Interlocks are for people who have had a DUI

Yes I am actually aware, thanks.

ankle monitors should not be able to be accessed remotely.

Ankle monitors monitor location. Interlock devices monitor intoxication levels, and locally send a signal to the vehicle about whether it’s ok to drive. The difference should be obvious.

Of course I am?

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I don’t understand what your point is. No one is saying it’s going to happen tomorrow. The point is that fines themselves aren’t the problem. The problem is corruption and cronyism. Fines are totally effective when implemented properly.

If it knows it’s been tampered with, it doesn’t need to phone home, it can be disabled locally…

If you want to circumvent it, it’s as simple as disconnecting it. Source: I’ve done it (professionally)

Since disabling the vehicle remotely is kinda the express intention of this device

Uhhh nope, there’s no reason for a remote connection.

Nothing but lip service. MS did not “analyze your feedback” because it was never about what you wanted, they analyzed their income (most likely from enterprise customers) and realized they may have boiled the frog too quickly. Windows will never improve because they do not want it to improve, they want it to make as much money as humanly possible, and they will eternally push that envelope to find out just how much bullshit their customers will tolerate.

Believe it or not, everyone who you disagree with or misunderstand is not “trolling”.

There is no reason they couldn’t assess fines a different way…

Certainly the fines were sufficiently sized in the 90s era when they dropped the hammer on Microsoft.

Your link is broken

What “concerning stories” are you referring to?

Signal’s running costs were primarily funded by Brian Acton.

You can bag up whoever you want, they can’t give you info they don’t have. That’s the entire point.

Knowing who you’re talking to and when and how often is all Meta needs to make WhatsApp wildly profitable.

I’ve gotten into it with tankies time and time again over Signal. They point to all this hypothetical nonsense repeatedly and then refuse to provide evidence. Signal, on the other hand, has proven that they either don’t have this info or don’t provide it over and over again through publicly-disclosed subpoenas, but the tankies continue to push this propaganda, which one can only reasonably conclude that they’re bad-faith actors and just “haters” of all things American.