I mention two separate issues.

ISPs are absolutely on the hook for forcing crap hardware onto (non technical) users.

Users are to blame for installing crapware.

Can you tell them apart now?

ISPs should be held liable for the crap they sell – they’d start taking security seriously.

As for users, depends on the motives, but educating them to the risks (and not in a you wouldn’t download a car way).

We already have studies outside of AI on how bad not doing the critical thinking for oneself is.

Yup, we built an entire country for that study, it’s turning 250 and does not compute all too well.

Residential routers have crappy security 'cos no-one bothers to punish ISPs for crap security practices.

Also some free VPNs come at a malware cost.

Right, cishet white men, the root of all evil.
Everyone else not in that category is just fine and dandy, a worthy human being.

55%… wow… what a landslide… /slowclap

I’ve posted a TL;DR somewhere on the thread already and I don’t recall Alec mentioning “capacity factor”, but maybe he referred to the same concept by a different name.

This particular youtuber is know to be “slow”, but thorough in the topics he covers.
This particular video has an “extra” 30m, you can stick to just the first hour.
The TL;DR is that solar makes more sense than coal in the murican Midwest.

You watch ads?

Really? You don’t know youtube or how to copy a link without clicking on it? Wow!
If you’re 5 you probably shouldn’t be using the internet but i can ELI5 you on how to, although i don’t think the topic will interest you.

Tell me you didn’t watch the video(s) without telling me you didn’t watch the video.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology

It’s what i have and works just fine.

The replacement component often requires programming, coding, calibration, or authentication before the vehicle will recognize it.

A simple windshield replacement can trigger calibration requirements for cameras and radar sensors. A battery replacement may require registration procedures.

The main issue is built-in obsolescence.

Wouldn’t it be better to have them underground with vents?

I too have a hard time seeing management as human,

Easier to control if your employee is actually at the office instead of working from home.
It’s not like the pandemic proved most office jobs could actually be done remotely…

Ok troll.

postmarketOS has been making strides ever since Google announced they’d kill sideloading installing 3^rd party apps.

Neither device are to be connected together in any way.

Then make sure not to have them on at the same time in the same place.

This is exactly what Orwell feared TVs would become when he envisioned telescreens.

Especially considering how some smartphones already have under-display cameras.