I can imagine a dystopian future, where only few hardcopies/offline copies of literature survive. All art/media is only available on the cloud, which is constantly changed as per the agenda of the day.
All communication has to go through the cloud for authenticated. The police state is constantly scanning people if they have any sort of external storage device. USB ports are banned from being manufactured. Radio is banned.
Few people, the rebels, hoard the last bit of art and music in the form of LPs/cassettes,/canvas but it's shared among people like contraband.
But I cannot help but wonder if a line of simple, less advanced ICE cars promoted on their ease of maintenance wouldn’t get popular with, for example, rural folks. After all, being able to fix the beast yourself would lover your costs a lot
No car company will make a car which is maintainable by a common man because it affects their bottom line. We can dream of alternate concepts (open-source car design/metal 3D printing) but government regulations and lobbying will kill such concepts. We have to focus on the current scenario.
But if I wanted to hit the relatively nearby lake or beach, getting there by foot is another story
The majority of the anti-car people are not saying "destroy all cars. Nobody should have cars". We are just saying "please don't make our entire lives car-dependent. Please design cities/governments/social life in such a way so that it's accessible to non-car folks."
I also have a car, but I only use it for going to places which are not reachable by public transport. For traveling to work, I use public transport 5 days a week. Cars should be (IMO) a recreational mode of transport.
Author also forgot that these companies won’t fail, because these are not “one and only” of each in the world
I agree with you; they won't fail. However, they surely can make our lives hell if they want to. This is a power that I don't want them to have over me.
this anti cheat is the most privacy invasive kind, controlling and monitoring everything on your computer
Avg gamer: Woah that's really bad.
Me: So you'll uninstall the game now, right?
Avg gamer: What? Heck no. I'm Diamond in Valorant. And all my friends are playing it
They will understand what you said. But changing habit is way harder on a mass scale. It's well known for years that Vanguard is a rootkit but the game is as popular as ever. If you tell this on any gaming community, you'll be responded with "Oh and switch to LinSux and play decade old games?"
Take 100 random gamers. How many of them will know what ring 0/kernel level anti-cheat even means? They don't care. They will happily accept whatever the publisher puts inside the game.
The only exception to this is Denuvo because it was affecting performance.
Learn Docker even if you have a single app. I do the same with a Minecraft server.
You will save a huge amount of time managing your app.
PS: I would like to give a shout out to podman as the rootless version of Docker