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The real answer to your question is that the vast majority of people don’t have the time, inclination or skills to manage it themselves.

The techy answer is that unless you are writing or reviewing every line of the firmware/OS yourself, and also securing them with certificates you’ve self signed with hardware/software that you’ve already reviewed or written yourself, you’re still trusting something to a third party.

Also your statement here is pretty backwards to me:

This is sold as security, but security means nothing if only one party controls the locks.

You may not trust Apple or whomever, but a lock with only one key holder is definitely more secure than a lock with many. Maybe just the wrong metaphor?

Ultimately, I think the real point is that Apple is a commercial entity driven by a profit motive, so will act in its own interest to that end. It never stated that iPhone was a device where you could roll your own secure boot or change firmware or whatever - it sold a mass market product to mass market consumers who largely don’t care about any of this stuff. In this regard at least, Apple’s secure boot is more secure than nothing.

I do, however, agree that you can’t necessarily trust this particular gatekeeper, so buyer beware.

Haha why is this news

Quick tempered pappardelle

I went to Japan for my honeymoon and so did the obligatory ‘learn the basics’ that I try to do before any trip to a new country.

Getting to a polite level so you can order food, find a train station and so on is relatively easy - probably a week’s effort if you really go for it.

Getting to a conversational level is a whole extra jump from there, however. Definitely a bigger leap than the equivalent in Spanish, for example. Based on this, I’d think that getting to a level where you can follow native speakers doing the exaggerated anime over-acting dialogue would be a hell of a slog and a very commendable achievement.

As everyone else is saying, the written language is very hard to learn, especially if you’re new to non-Latin alphabets. Japanese has three of the damned things and they mix and match seemingly at random (to the eye of the uneducated).

Edit: forgot to say - I like Duolingo for ease of access and I also bought a little phrase book.

My opinion: if you have an interest and an excuse, go for it! Learning more is never the wrong answer.

Just fyi, the song is called “No Time For Caution” and it slaps in every possible way

Cars on PCP finance. Very expensive way to not own your car.

I’ve been bbq-ing since mid January for various events we’ve hosted, but I’d say the first proper British BBQ day was yesterday for where we are.

Now that I’ve invited people over for this proper first-bbq-of-the-year shindig, the sun has decided to go all shy.

This was incredibly nerdy and I loved every second of it

When I make my own pizza I use the spare sauce as a dip. Bit of olive oil and fresh basil over the whole thing makes the crust pretty much as nice as the rest.

Also for the stuffed I think you have to do more of a burrito roll type thing so that the edge is trapped by the weight of the stuffing.

So the answers in this post are mostly that people are downvoting the bot because it is often wrong and then others defending it by saying “it’s not wrong it’s just based on American politics”.

If the bot reported from a range of sources that reflect a number of different political perspectives I’m sure it’d be more useful outside of the scope of American politics, and therefore wouldn’t get downvoted.

As far as I’m concerned the vote system is working as intended.

The internet is not American. There are no nations on lemmy ✌️

The BBC have long since forgotten the universally important, and ever relevant, Rule 1:

Don’t fuck the kids