Usually no permit required if its not connected to the grid 🙂

I do some small-scale solar installs and the rate of pricing decline is insane. Even in a world where everything is getting more expensive, solar panels, electronics, and batteries all continue to rapidly fall in price.

Advertising doesn’t have to be the way it is.

Unrelated note:

We finally have the technology

We had the technology in like 1998. RSS doesn’t solve this problem because publications stopped offering full articles a long time ago. You still have to open the site to read them.

On another note, the author left out that PC gamer hijacks your browser history to show more articles when you try to back out of the site.

…it is?

Interlocks are for people who have had a DUI

Yes I am actually aware, thanks.

ankle monitors should not be able to be accessed remotely.

Ankle monitors monitor location. Interlock devices monitor intoxication levels, and locally send a signal to the vehicle about whether it’s ok to drive. The difference should be obvious.

Of course I am?

I don’t understand what your point is. No one is saying it’s going to happen tomorrow. The point is that fines themselves aren’t the problem. The problem is corruption and cronyism. Fines are totally effective when implemented properly.

If it knows it’s been tampered with, it doesn’t need to phone home, it can be disabled locally…

If you want to circumvent it, it’s as simple as disconnecting it. Source: I’ve done it (professionally)

Since disabling the vehicle remotely is kinda the express intention of this device

Uhhh nope, there’s no reason for a remote connection.

Nothing but lip service. MS did not “analyze your feedback” because it was never about what you wanted, they analyzed their income (most likely from enterprise customers) and realized they may have boiled the frog too quickly. Windows will never improve because they do not want it to improve, they want it to make as much money as humanly possible, and they will eternally push that envelope to find out just how much bullshit their customers will tolerate.

Believe it or not, everyone who you disagree with or misunderstand is not “trolling”.

There is no reason they couldn’t assess fines a different way…

Certainly the fines were sufficiently sized in the 90s era when they dropped the hammer on Microsoft.

“Wake me” when anything at all happens…? The point is, they have the power.

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Just because they’re currently assessed that way doesn’t mean they can’t be assessed a different way…

…not assessed what way?

Not necessarily, the fine just needs to be a sufficient size.

So it doesn’t apply when I click the big button which says ‘Install’ on F-Droid app on my phone?

Please note the use of quotes. I was using “installing software” the way you were, as in literally any software. Whereas this does not apply to apps in the Google Play Store. That’s why the distinction is important.

Just like installing software from the ‘secure’ Google Play store.

Yes, just like that, except a higher level of risk, because potentially no one is verifying the validity of said software. And as I already explained, there’s no technological way for the OS to differentiate a legitimate source like FDroid from a random sketchy website on the internet.

Installing software is installing software, no matter where you get that software from

Except it’s not, because sideloading is different, as you know, if you actually read the OP, and if you actually read my comments where I already explained how it’s different.

Now I’m done repeating myself over and over, so unless you have something new to contribute to the discussion, I’m out. Have a nice day!

To me that implies it’s somehow different than just installing software.

That’s because it is, as I’ve just finished explaining. Again, see the “advanced flow” in OP? This does not apply to “installing software”. It only applies to sideloading. I’m not sure why this is so difficult to understand.

You could say ‘install from play store’ or ‘install from f-droid’ if you need to specify which app repository you should use

That’s true, if you were referring to a specific repository, but the term “sideloading” does not refer to any specific repository, as you know.

From the article:

None of this says “sideloading” or refers specifically to the term, it refers to the practice.

Google tries to twist that to mean something only ‘power users’ do and it comes with a ‘educated risk’.

You’re incredibly naive if you think anyone other than “power users” are sideloading.

And it does come with risk, because it might come from a reputable source like FDroid or it might be a random app from some unverified (by anyone) sketchy website, and the system has no technological means to tell the difference.