Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

Ask Texas how that’s goin.

https://www.statista.com/chart/6780/only-5-countries-have-a-bigger-gdp-than-california/

It’s gdp is more that france

Honestly, so long as people keep buying their phones they really don’t care about this kind of stuff. Sure, it was a way to drive up margins for a while, but they will just move onto their next bag of tricks to make it hard to leave.

This can be handled a few different ways.

• You can boot from a HDD and then just not ever write data back to it. This would be the most trivial solution, and it’s something people do with their Pi’s a lot to avoid SD card failure.
• You could network boot, pull the OS from the network at startup. Fun fact, this is how some rockets fly! No onboard persistent storage needed. Everything boots into and runs from ram the whole 10 ish minutes of operation.
• You COULD do a ROM as you suggested, but that’s a LOT of ROM. Seems odd to do imho.

I think he stopped because the show gave us his ending and he knows everyone hates it.

RIP

Provided the pressure is maintained from the outside, mine would work fine with a match.

Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

What’s the watts-per-search of google?

Right? Let’s see this pass rigorous muster first.