I would guess a swappable battery would be separated from the vehicle, similar to a gas bottle for a grill.

The battery would be rented for a small deposit and on swapping you only pay the energy + service fee.

I guess you could also buy one to own, but then could not swap that.

That’s how it would make sense, at least.

Back in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?

The option to use TOTP is already well hidden. It’s not like someone who does not know what he is looking for and uses an Authenticator already will accidentally select it.

I mean, other file sync apps upload everything to a third party while you’re working with the device.
Then, when you use another device the first one can be turned off.

Solaar usually works well enough. Not sure if the gestures part is supported on MacOS.

I usually avoid depending on “hardware support” software for reasons like this. Once the software is no longer supported or as seen here, introduces some dumb “feature”, it becomes annoying.

Then why does the kernel have a crypto API?

Checkmate, Satoshi Torvalds!

Most x86 EFIs are, so the comparison is not really fair.

That’s Canonical building Mir 2.

Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.

That’s wrong, data is still usually encrypted.

A locked bootloader ‘just’ prevents tampering with the OS. You’re only pwned when using the phone after it has been manipulated.

That’s not how any of this works.

First of all, stripping passwords is never okay. You can reject the password and let the user choose a new one, but never just modify it on your own.

Then, if your system is at risk of code injection by certain characters in user input, please just shut it down and never turn it on again.

Stripping characters from passwords, great idea! Right up there with truncating passwords that are too long.

Free is a loaded word and in FOSS it means “free as in freedom” as opposed to “free as in free beer”.

That’s not even free, and more importantly not free and open source.