I'm sure there will be common sense regulations so only the government is allowed access to uncrippled models for security use.

Aside from all the middle men nibbling at artist take, its also a symptom of trading on fundamentally un-scarce resources. A better business model is selling access to the scarce things like the artist themselves. Trying to maintain stranglehold on a particular order of zeros and ones is always going to be tough.

That’s part of the reason that artists have made a bigger push toward selling merch as a means of making a living. But that feels so arbitrary and unsustainable to me.

Why should I buy a tshirt from somebody because I like their music? Fashion design is its own unrelated art form.

That car analogy seems really weak. It might make sense, but only if we replace Ford, Chevy, et al with Enterprise or Hertz etc.

All due respect to your mother, but a pro photographer would certainly achieve better results. Your mom may recognize something is not right but be unable to articulate it clearly to the tool. Same problem that's always been. The bar has been lowered, not removed.

He explicitly said they would get different results.

The comment said different results with a camera but _not_ with AI.

Its been pretty well documented that LLMs can be social engineered as easily as a toddler. Equating the risk to that of a human employee seems wrong. I'm sure the safeguards will improve, but for now the risk is still there.

Or just use a separate user?

That's another option. Or containers. Or cloud hosts. Point is to stop doing bidirectional syncing of directories when you're trying to do isolation.

"please raise my children for me. Somebody should..."

Not to mention doesn't aviation fuel still make heavy (heh) use of lead?

I think thats only true for propeller planes, which use leaded gasoline. Jet fuel is just kerosene

Pistons, rather than all propellers. Basically imagine a really old car engine, because simplicity is crucial for reliability and ease of maintenance so all those "fancy" features your car had by the 1990s aren't available, however instead of turning wheels the piston engine turns a propeller. Like really old car engines these piston engines tend to be designed for leaded fuel. Because this is relatively cheap to do, all the cheapest planes aimed at GA (General Aviation, ie you just like flying a plane, not for pay) are like this.

Propellers are a very common means to make aeroplanes work though, instead of a piston engine, which is cheap to make but relatively unreliable and expensive to run, you can use turbine engines, which run on JetA aka kerosene, and the rotary motion of the turbine drives the propeller making a turboprop. In the US you won't see that many turboprop engines for passenger service, but in the rest of the world that's a very common choice for medium distance aeroplane routes, while the turbofan planes common everywhere in the US would in most places be focused on longer distances between bigger airfields because they deliver peak efficiency when they spend longer up in the sky.

JetA, whether for a turbofan or turboprop does not have lead in it, so to a first approximation no actual $$$ commercial flights spew lead. They're bad for the climate, but they don't spew lead into the atmosphere.

You did all those repairs to your iphone yourself? I imagine that was significantly more technically difficult than repairing a Fairphone, which is made to be _user_ serviceable.

Original iPhone SE is relatively easy to work on, two pentalobe screws and a suction cup will get you into it. It’s not waterproof so there’s no glue seals to warm and melt, it’s still mostly screwed together inside, only the battery has glue strips holding it in.

From there I’ve swapped the battery, moved the logic board and home button to a new chassis, taken the camera module out and tried to clean it, had the screen+top chassis off. It’s not for everyone but it’s not technically complex with many specialist tools, it just needs a battery replacement kit, tiny screwdrivers, workspace, and patience.

Interesting! So I shouldn't expect a similar experience fixing a 13 mini when the time comes?

I've never tried, but the original SE I'm talking about is contemporaneous with the iPhone 5 chassis and iPhone 6 internals. The 13 is 5-6 generations and years newer, and likely more hostile or complex in at least some ways.

No, I went to a local electronics shop. I don't have a pile of decommissioned phones in my house, nor the eyesight or hand-steadiness for fixing things that small. User-serviceable is definitely a distinction, but I suspect family members would expect me to be their technician anyway, and I'd point them to the electronics shop due to physical issues above, and fear of bricking their devices.

If your family members ever had to mount an ikea furniture or equivalent, they'll probably have an as easy or easier time replacing a part on a fairphone. Especially for the battery. At least for version 3 and older. I don't know for later models. If you know how to swap batteries in a tv remote, you know how on this phone.

Ever more complex systems/technology are fine for some and not for others. Some people care about simplicity and the ability to maintain and repair the system themselves.