Hopefully now this has been proven to work, we can accelerate the process.

The issue is political. A lot of people in London and the wider are poor, and can't afford a new car or even a used EV when petrol bangers are as little as a few hundred quid. At least sales of new ones are increasing steadily, and the Chinese manufacturers are offering them at reasonable prices. That competition seems to have driven down prices from European, Japanese, and Korean manufacturers too.

If they just popped out they could be reused cheaply. Most of them are going to be fine, ready to re-use without any more than a simple test. Some people collect them and build their own home batteries out of discarded vapes.

We could do with an EU level rule that such batteries must be removable without tools and use a standard JST connector.

In this case it's an open source driver that is the problem. Specifically this one: https://www.highrez.co.uk/Down...

The maintainer abandoned it, but everyone kept using it because it's the only real option for apps (including open source ones like Open Hardware Monitor) to access the motherboard SMBUS which controls fans and RGB lighting, among other things.

It's not clear exactly what the cause of the crash is, but it may be related to anti-cheat tech which basically rootkits Windows and then panics when it sees certain drivers installed.

If you believe that Iranians saying that stuff is a statement of actual intent and makes peace impossible, then you should also believe the same about statements made by the Israeli government and its genocidal intent to create a Greater Israel.

Well, Linux is European, and we are at least less hostile than the US.

China has domestic hardware for government computers.

For example, they have multiple domestic CPU designs. RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, and even some licensed AMD Epyc cores with the random number generators replaced by domestic designs.

Richard Stalman used to have one of the MIPS CPUs IIRC, until it got stolen. Reason being that it was the freest laptop available at the time, running almost entirely open source software.

Cloning the data won't help. The data on any half decent phone is encrypted. The encryption key is kept insecure a secure memory, which requires the password to unlock.

When you use the duress password, it doesn't overwrite the data on the flash memory, instead that key is wiped. The secure memory has an integrated processor that generates a new key.

Merely having a copy of the data is useless, because unless there is a flaw in the key generation there is no way you can decrypt it. If there is a flaw, a mere border agent probably isn't going to have access to that information, it's the sort of thing that the NSA keeps to itself.

If you don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons, disarm Israel. They have at least 100 nukes, and multiple ways to deliver them. Stop the settler state sponsored terrorism too.

Take away the reason why Iran thinks it needs nukes to secure its existence.

If they find water it will certainly put them at the forefront of moon science.

By the way, those articles seem fine. The first two are well established history at this point.

Just because it is sold cheap doesn't mean it isn't valuable. It may just be that people who value it don't know it exists, or it isn't available due to international shipping, or they won't start looking for years to come.

That's why I get scanned books onto the Internet Archive. Maybe nobody will care, but maybe someone will 10 or 100 years from now.

Competition is usually good. YouTube has been rapidly enshittifying, and there isn't really any alternative.

You can have both physical controls and a big screen. I like having a big screen for Android Auto, but wouldn't give up the buttons for other functions either.

Some of that stuff is good. Autopilot systems that actually work are great for long distance driving. You need some compute power for Android Auto/Carplay, and having a built in sat nav can be useful too. Remote management of air conditioning and charging are very nice to have.

Of course BMW's ads and other bullshit would be enough for me to return the car. My car has physical buttons for key functions too.