if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

That’s not how boiling works. The water heats up to its boiling point where it stops and boils. While boiling the temperature does not increase, it stays exactly at the boiling point. This is called “Latent Heat”, at its boiling point water will absorb heat without increasing in temperature until it has absorbed enough for its phase to change.

There is an exception to this called superheating

100F is a fever; if you’re experiencing those regularly you should go see a doctor.

It’s an apples to oranges comparison. FPS bots are not playing the same game: they have perfect information in an imperfect information game.

The only one I’ve seen is the VW “e-up!”.

There’s vulnerabilities like the recent iMessage exploit that are executed remotely through no interaction by the user. In combination with the ability to self-spread you get mass exploits like WannaCry which spread to 300k+ computers in 7 hours. All you need is a network connection.

So you push digital goods to a robust public platform like IPFS and tie decryption to a signed, non-revokable, rights token that you own on a block chain.

What you describe is fundamentally impossible. In order to decrypt something you need a decryption key. Put that on the blockchain and anyone can decrypt it.

Even if you can, pirates would only need to buy a single decryption key and suddenly your movie might as well be freely available to download. Pirates never pay hosting fees because it’s using the same infrastructure as customers and they can’t be taken down because they’re indistinguishable from customers.

Adding blockchain into the mix changes nothing. Whether your digital ownership is stored in their centralized database or a distributed database, they still have control over everything because they’re the ones streaming it to you. They can just as well block your access & block resale.

The only way to actually digitally own something is to have a full DRM-free copy of it (ianal though this still might not be enough to allow resale).

My experience with Apple issue reporting is that you’re speaking into a void.

In recent memory I’ve had both a microphone driver bug in Linux and one in macOS with specific hardware. Only one of them was fixed with an update.

Apple still uses intel chips in all their macs, just not for the CPU. The M1 Macbook for instances uses an Intel JHL8040R thunderbolt 4 chip.

I don’t see how that’s related at all. Having deterministic builds only matters if you’re building a binary from source, if you’re working with some distributed binary you’ll be applying the patch to identical binaries anyway. And if a new binary is distributed, that’s going to be because something in the source was changed; deterministic builds will still give you a different binary if the source changes.

Binary patching is still common, both for getting around DRM and for software updates.

For a phone who’s ethos is sustainability buying a 2nd device just for music is antithetical. When my FP3 eventually goes out of support I’ll have to look elsewhere.

AMDGPU is open source: https://github.com/radeonopencompute/rock-kernel-driver/, it’s also upstreamed into Linux. The firmware is a binary blob though.

You say that like Apple would have to put in a ton of work for that. Android can already run on iPhones. It’s just an ARM computer. Project Sandcastle already exists. All they have to do is allow unlocking the bootloader just like they do on macs.

AVX-2 has been in pretty much every CPU since 2011. For AVX512 intel’s been shipping that to consumers since Ice Lake 2019.

At least it’s transparent and often doesn’t require root, unlike say a debian package.

USB-PD 3.1 standardized EPR in 2021; it hasn’t been draft for a while.

They’re handing out magic beans with the selling point being that they can’t take them away from you once you get them.

And that’s not even true in any practical sense. If reddit decides that the token in your crypto wallet is invalid, then it’ll stop working on reddit. And since they’re the only issuer every possible use is going to be tied to reddit in some sense.