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Oh no, they are bastards. Extra big bastards in a sea of bastards. I blame regulators. The hope is the right to repair because law in more and more places in more and more market areas.

Without the EU regulators, Apple would never have gone USB C.

Why? Anti-features aren't just Apple. All big tech do it to users.

Edit: And automotive, white goods companies, etc, etc

You looked at the Berlingo? A lot cheaper....

FPTP is going to give us a Farage reich with less than a third of the vote.

The voting system desperately needs changing. The left needs this more than the right as it's always more split. It's more idealistic, less comprising. Reform/UKIP/Brexit has been the right's split from the Conservatives, but Labour has LibDem, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens and now more.

What's more important? Stopping people cheating at games via technology or digital freedom to prevent all kinds power abuse? (Forced obsolescence, surveillance, anti-features, etc)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

I don't care that much about games to be honest. If they get caught cheating, how about just legal action?

So I've finished rereading the first one. Your right! It's head is "generic human". The joints for arms and legs are a mix of organic and nonorganic, but to pass, it needs a long shirt and trousers. Less human in looks than in the TV series, who we see in the nude to make it clear he is not a sex bot.

Edit:

In the second book: "I don't know if there are any augmented human with enough implants to resemble a SecUnit. It seams unlikely a human would want that many implants, or would survive whatever catastrophic injury might make them necessary."

So yes, the TV series has the body wrong even head is acceptable.

So we dont buy US military kit. It's got kill switches and hard to keep running without their support. It's increasing looking like they aren't aligned with the free world.

The consumer can only really be expected to do so much. Fail of governments / regulators can't really be fixed by consumer action. Realistically, you can't get many to understand and care. We need to pressure governments to do their job. Now the problem isn't academic. It's national security and the tax money and control lost to American big tech is now a political problem. Be a lot easier if they hadn't been a sleep on the job and ignoring digital rights and competition experts, but we are where we are.

Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc

It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.

Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.

If they use means more funding to foundations & projects, this helps everyone. You can see a feedback loop were more and more things hit critical mass. This is a nightmare scenario for the big closed source houses.

Can't talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don't see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.

The series is the next book on my list, and I flew from them first time. Looking forwards to rereading (I never normally reread). :-)