Bc someone managed to find a bootrom exploit very early in the consoles life, which is fairly (and increasingly) uncommon (to find at all, let alone early). Still worth searching of course and still theoretically possible always but not something to count on
I feel like this would be counterproductive in that it would ultimately be turned against the hacker group and used as fuel to increase control of devices when said group bricks 500,000+ phones or whatever. At least in the us the media and government will always side with corporations and that takes a huge amount of the population along with them
The 3ds free shop debacle with titlekeys being easily reused was pretty bad too. Like I suppose it could happen to anyone but if that happened to MS or Sony you know it would be patched in a matter of days (or hours, even) whereas the free shop worked for almost 2 full years. It is absolutely unimaginable in the modern context to think that a modern gaming company would allow an exploit that allowed you to simply download any game or update you wanted from their cdn and have your console immediately see it as legit. To think that such a thing would go on for years is mind blowing nowadays (and partially explains why the switch 2 is draconian, though it doesn’t excuse it. Just do better at security)
What kind of phone, laptop, game console, car, iot devices, etc do you have? I guarantee you support this stuff somewhere in your life. It’s inescapable.
But to answer you more directly apathy and consumerism. Why do people buy the switch 2 despite extremely anti consumer practices? Because they want to play slightly better Mario kart. Why do people buy a macbook? Because they want a computer that largely “just works”.
With phones it’s a bit different though. The choices are slowly being taken from you. It’s still possible right this second to buy something with an open bootloader but in 2030? Maybe not so much unless you’re cool with going back to a flip phone
Sometimes it’s a cryptographic key thing, if the bootloader doesn’t see an image signed with a trusted key it won’t boot.
Sometimes it’s a flag set in storage that is secure and not writable. Bootloader checks the flag, if it’s set then it enforces signature verification.
Sometimes it’s a hardware thing. Newer chips can come with programmable fuses that can be set to pop. This literally severs an electrical connection within the soc or cpu or whatever and then that is the flag. The nintendo switch’s tegra used this to prevent downgrading; if you upgraded legitimately you’d “burn fuses” and then would be locked on that firmware permanently. downgrading could potentially brick the system. (Maybe someone’s figured out a way around this now, I haven’t fucked with switch stuff since tears of the kingdom came out).
There’s other ways too.
Defeating these methods is generally quite difficult. Sometimes you get lucky and a glaring bootloader exploit is found early on (fusee gelee for the switch) or one that applies to many generations of hardware (checkm8, unpatchable bootrom exploit for iphone 4s-iphone x) but at the same time companies have learned to harden their shit as much as possible and throw money at people who do find these exploits. Even nintendo, who has been notoriously laughably bad at this kind of thing seems to have come much harder at the switch 2. The only thing released to date is a minor userland exploit and even if something more substantial is released they’ll just brick your console for finding/running it
That’s frankly been the case for a while now unless you’re a AAA gamer or 3d rendering or doing LLMs or something. I used a laptop from 2012 until 2022 then replaced it with a 2019 laptop (i9, Radeon 5600) which I’m using now and plan to use until at least 2030. For the vast majority of us that just browse, watch videos, use office software, teleconference, compile small projects, and the occasional indie game/emulator old hardware is fine. Consumerism makes you think it’s not.
“Following the Eastern Idaho Critical Incident Task Force investigation, the Attorney General’s Office conducted 15 additional interviews. The officers involved in the shooting spoke with the task force but declined to be interviewed by AG investigators.
“Instead, they provided audio recordings and transcripts of interviews they completed with a third party,” Nye wrote.”
Well I hope if I’m ever involved in a controversial shooting and the AG asks to interview me I can just be like “no thanks bro, here’s a tape of my friend asking me about it” and that’s the end of it
A class action just passes the money from one elite class (corporations) to another (class action lawyers). Consumers will get a virtual prepaid debit card for $1.97 in 5 years that can’t be spent anywhere because it can’t be used online and it costs $5 to have them mail you a physical card
Separate the media portions of these companies as well; apple and amazon music, tv, streaming into separate entities.
Don’t simply allow them to be purchased by another huge conglomerate or corporation like perplexity or openai, split them into their own entities. Stop companies purchasing each other to avoid this mess from repeating and avoid monopolies
Or just nationalize these companies. Trump already started the process with intel
There are many good things about this, American consumerism is out of control
We discuss climate change and how “companies are the worst offenders” but what drives those companies? American consumerism
Importing fast fashion, cheap plastic bullshit, other nonsense in plastic packaging, etc (much of it produced in countries that still utilize very dirty fossil fuel chains) ultimately funds and drives significant demand to keep it going and expand.
Also puts huge demand on fuel for international shipping of dumb bullshit.
Next thing to do would be to further reduce fuel demands by limiting air travel and consumer fuel usage but Trump isn’t going to invest in public transport, obviously. This is only a byproduct of his idiocy. After that would be to address concrete and other building material demand/suburban sprawl. Although the time to do this was 20 years ago
No more Lego pick a brick! Way more money for temu bullshit, if they even still ship here! Etc
This is where American consumerism will really start to feel the squeeze. The prices of all that stuff had gone up because of tariffs related to manufacturing costs but now direct tariffs on shipments will either block it or cost consumers.
“He could be a rock star if he hid who he was briefly to win the election then went back to serving corporate interests, souring people on the democratic side even more and sending them to the republicans or to not voting at all”
Like listen to yourself. You sound like the victim of domestic abuse. “It’s going to be different this time!”. He’s not going to change honey, you gotta leave and find someone that’s actually good for you
He’s been “doing this” for years dude. He dresses it up with fancy language but homeless camp sweeps have been happening in CA for a long time and have been ordered by him through executive order, driven by his rich NIMBY donors.
Despite surveys in 2023 showing sweeps resulted in police citations as of often as offers for housing he continued with criminalizing homelessness, encouraging local governments to create anti camping ordinances in 2024 (aka criminalizing homelessness)
Flip sides of the same coin. He can play the part because he is basically trump with decorum and slightly different masters. Trump sold out to the extreme right white nationalist fascist crowd, Newsom sold out to the corporate world fascist crowd. If Silicon Valley decides that lgbt support is bad for business Newsom will flip flop (see his appearance on the charlie kirk podcast, testing the waters). He will always back things that fuck over workers and benefit the corporate class.
vote blue no matter who though. Unless it’s someone from the dsa or psl that actually represents your interests of course, then of course the democrat leadership can’t possibly endorse the candidate and will split the vote because they’d rather potentially hand the election to a republican than give you a candidate that serves your interests instead of their donors. But remember, if you don’t vote for them you’re a fucking tankie piece of shit
He’s really committing to the bit with going on right wing podcasts and saying anti trans rhetoric. He even got on trumps “criminalize homelessness” bullshit like a full year before trump was re-elected, that’s crazy good acting
They had some lgbt hires and dei stuff a few years ago and the ceo and is a woman so the new logo is clearly the end result of all that woke (reading: anything not catering to straight white males) nonsense
Bc someone managed to find a bootrom exploit very early in the consoles life, which is fairly (and increasingly) uncommon (to find at all, let alone early). Still worth searching of course and still theoretically possible always but not something to count on