Generally, anything that isn’t a Tesla because politics aside, Teslas are built terribly and are reportedly already falling apart, so not only is the Tesla brand saddled with baggage, but the cars themselves are built like crap.

Performance-wise if you’re filthy rich, the Rimac Nevera is one of the fastest EVs in existence and snatched performance records left and right when it launched.

If you have mech and electrical skills, you could also build your own out of something like a Geo or an older Civic by swapping the gas drivetrain for the drivetrain out of a wrecked EV, although you’d need a custom controller for it.

Think of how Wyse thin clients are typically ridiculously locked down, these are basically a newer version of those.

Assuming they’re not ridiculously locked down, which they probably are.

Plus laws going after alternative OSes, no doubt lobbied for by MS to eliminate competition for Windows, are starting to creep in now, see Cali and Colorado.

Next step will be mandating SecureBoot and limiting OS selection to a short list of approved options.

And the end game will be thin clients connected to the cloud.

DVD actually still holds up for 2D animation, as 2D animation is probably the only medium that holds up well upscaled from 480p, there’s just not a lot of detail to lose in the upscaling process compared to live action or even 3D animation to some extent.

Think about mp3 CDs…

• …Or worse, ATRAC CDs, which thankfully also never caught on because had they caught on, given ATRAC is a proprietary Sony codec, they would’ve only been able to be played back on Sony CD players which supported the ATRAC codec.

Given all the attempts at eroding tech freedom, this might end up being future computing, but the cloud is state-controlled.

Assuming the bootloader is not super locked down or even nonexistent, think Wyse thin client levels of locked down.

Changed it to the YT link.

I can’t believe we’re at the point where entire OSes are blocking whole areas now. What’s next, Cali and anyone else who pushes this will ban building custom PCs because they don’t ship with a pre-approved OS by default? Will companies like System76, Framework, Tuxedo, and Valve stop selling their hardware because they either don’t ship with Windows by default or give you the option to provide your own OS entirely?

Already answered by @[email protected] .

They’re teleprompters.

Not yet, but surely AOSP distros are in the crosshairs next if they’re not already.

If you ever wanna play 4K BDs on PC, you’ll need a 4K-compatible drive that’s been hacked with LibreDrive though, otherwise you’re stuck using a dedicated set-top player for those.

1080p discs can at least be handled by libaacs and libbdplus /w the necessary files, and don’t necessarily need a hacked drive to play back.

Sad to say, but YT’s quickly going down the tubes lately for anything with any kind of substance as slop content is promoted over anything actually good nowadays.

I thought Fuchsia was proprietary.

Are they going to check people’s PCs at the state borders as they move in then?

Goodbye tech ownership in Colorado if this passes. We’re moving one step closer to the government issuing out thin clients that only they control.

Plus Windows already tried blocking sideloading with S Mode. What’s stopping them from permanently enacting that for the Home SKU at some point down the road given their recent track record of implementing unpopular things regardless of public outcry?

Also, what’s stopping Google from just completely rewriting Android as a Windows-style closed-source OS that they have complete control over at some point?

How soon before Windows copies this, given they already tried this sorta lockdown with S Mode?

Also, couldn’t Ubuntu hypothetically lock down the Snap store like this?