I can tell you I have 0 investment in Tesla. In fact I am one of the first subscribers to /r/RealTesla. If you want to be a dumbass and not actually try the car out, then be my guest. I have driven all the competitors cars. Its a pretty decent car all things considered.
Quite pricey for what you get but its a BMW, its better put together than most. To be fair, with the number of models coming out I am seeing a lot of familiarity but nothing that truly stands out(I even hinted above that the Tesla is a decent car, not a perfect car: there are problems with it).
I am a Mazda fan so I lean towards their design philosophy. Once they release a true competitive EV, I will likely be happy enough to just buy it and be done. But until then it is looking like I am deciding between staying with another gas Mazda for a few years until they release a proper EV or picking something less than ideal and learning to live with it. My comment a few level up talks about buying my next 15+ year car so I am taking this very seriously. No perfect options for me in this transition period where the industry is still moving from mainly Gas to EV.
A satellite constellation is only half of a network. And a system that nobody can actually use is not a useful or functional system. Approximately nobody has a receiver for this network today. The receivers won't fall out of the sky tomorrow if war breaks out.
And even if everyone did have receivers, commercial satellites are highly regulated by most nations, likely will be targeted during any future major war, and there's no guarantee they won't be coopted for other uses by their host nations. Blockstream is a tiny company and doesn't even own or operate any of these satellites. You might as well just use viasat or iridium.
If people need to put in that much work, it won't be of much use to buy groceries with it, as the kid at the grocery store can't even spell SDR. If it were me, I'd spend my effort rebuilding terrestrial IP networks over copper instead. It would be more useful.
This is why Bitcoin maxis are ultimately delusional. They think the world revolves around them and, no matter what happens, they will always be at the top.
Fiat currency is a scam (including the USD) anybody treating it otherwise is overly credulous or in on the scam. Maybe it started out with better intentions but it is irredeemable.
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ChromeOS puts Chrome in a nice safe sandbox (in addition to the sandboxing of Chrome tabs that happens on all OSes) that used selinux and other technologies. This requires modifications to Chrome. Replicating that for another browser might be harder than modifying ChromeOS to add something like this.
If you have to use it for work “whether you like it or not” then you’re extremely unlikely to have the permissions to install your own root certificate, which is a lot more sensitive operation than running Firefox.
Well then they’re able to install and run Firefox.
My point is the only situations where you have no control over browser installs are when the machine is locked down in such a way that you also cannot install root certificates.
Not necessarily. And there’s plenty of browser based software/services that do not work with Firefox or have a limited functionality with Firefox that are required for work.
I know back when I did more freelancing with podcast clients this was a constant problem. The OS folks were using could reek havoc if it wasn’t safari, edge, or chrome 90% of the time.
But again, you’d then just use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal browsing.
As it happens I lived through this in the early 00s with IE but back then I used Opera for personal browsing and IE for work.
Even in the very remote possibility that you can somehow make changes to root certificates but cannot install a second browser (and I’m being charitable here because there are literally zero reasons that would ever happen), it would still make more sense to update your local hosts files with a pihole-list block list rather than installing your own root cert and using a 3rd party tool to MITM all your web traffic.
I do get the appeal of this tool. I honestly do. But there are so many safer ways to solve this same problem.
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