Of course, the only command line in OS 9 was the MPW Shell.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Every week or two, I backup my data to an 8T drive. Every year or so, I take the 8T drive off site.

Right to repair is great. Of course, 99% of us will end up bricking our phone if we tried to replace the screen or battery.

I have a soft bricked Xiaomi phone with a locked bootloader. I haven't seen any need to unlock it, because I was fine with its OS (It is an AndroidOne phone with stock Android). One day the phone froze while I was listening to music, and upon a forced restart, it stuck on bootloop. An issue that should have been fairly easy to fix with a reset, or at worst with a reflash of the original ROM. But turned out that I could not do any of those with a locked bootloader. Later I've found out that Android phones have an "Emergency Download Mode" (EDL) that you can access by short-circuiting 2 test points on motherboard. Since I couldn't find a better option, I've opened my phone and tried to flash "the original", Xiaomi released ROM, but blocked yet again from doing so, because Xiaomi also locked the EDL mode. Only authorized Xiaomi personnel can flash "their" phones through EDL mode. I didn't know any of that when I bought my phone, there was zero mention for bootloaders on user manual, EDL lock was added after a software update (which I've learned years later, as it wasn't mentioned on release notes). So, my phone is waiting for benevolent hackers to find "exploits" in its bootloader to be usable again.

We would like the right to take our phones to independent specialists to have them repair them with equivalent parts to the original where possible.

It's the case that in the EU and UK (for now) that we can take our cars to qualified independent service centres without invalidating our warrantees.

We want the same for our phones and other devices.

That's FUD

My observation is that climate activists would much prefer a new coal plant to a new nuclear plant.

This was downvoted but the reality in Germany is that this is literally happening. I'm in some Fridays for Future chats and coal gets them going, but nuclear is worse. There's a reason Germany phases out nuclear fission before fossil fuels. It blows my mind and my german colleagues are in favor of continuing to decommission nuclear plants. When pressed specifically, they do concede that perhaps it's not the best idea to do it in this order, but they're not against the plans either.

Meanwhile 92% of Germany's energy consumption is still fossil fuels, but at least it won't be nuclear!

Most important keystroke when working on a spreadsheet, cntl-z, Undo.

I agree with you regarding the tabloid journalism aspect of the ArsTechnica story.

The old 1970s era Star Trek game is available on iOS; command line interface replaced with a few buttons. It is called Old Trek.

How many of us actually come to a complete, full, zero-mph stop at a stop sign if nobody is around (or we are in a hurry).

That doesn’t alway matter. Last time I was pulled over I stopped and counted to five cause the cop was sitting in the median. He pulled me over anyway to check if I was drunk (it was midnight) admitted I had stopped and let me go. But I’d still rather deal with a cop who bends the rules than a traffic enforcement company behind fifteen layers of corruption and government chaff.

On the other hand, ThePirateBay seems to be able to stay up.

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (‪@brokep‬) 1/10/21, 03:05

"The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.

The most ironic thing is that TPBs enemies include not just the US government but also many European and the Russian one. Compared to gab/parlor which is supported by the current president of the US and probably liked by the Russian one too.

First time tpb got shut down was because a Mexican gang wanted some cash. Took a day to move. Second time was when the USG forced Sweden to send 50 cops and even arrest the lawyer. Took 3 days to get back online, 1.5 days was spent to get drunk and party."

It's probably easier to host a website serving a bunch of .torrent files. There's dozens of those around.

Or just magnet links.

Sounds good, except that it will never happen.