Locked bootloaders should be illegal. Manufacturers should have to provide enough specs that third parties can write code that runs on the hardware.
Yes, but not to the same degree.
Smoking cigarettes
Expiration dates on packaged food are almost always about how enjoyable the food is to eat, not safety. Donating expired packaged food with legal protection from liability would be good for the world.
The headline is a little misleading. The actual ruling is that police can obtain warrants to install surveillance malware on phones when they have evidence the owner is using it to communicate about crimes.
Locked bootloaders
From what I can tell, all the karma thresholds are dynamic and probably only knowable by admins. If nearly 1000 isn't enough to avoid rate limiting then they sound pretty aggressive.
From my perspective HN's approach seems to do pretty well at mitigating bad behavior, but might be a little too hard on newcomers and casual users.
Low-karma accounts are rate-limited. I don't know what the threshold is, but that goes away after you gain some karma.
What killed it?
I don't think there's a single correct size for a phone. Different people want different things; many want huge phones with screens over 7" while some of us think the Pixel 4a is too big.
My phone got an update on July 18. LineageOS is great.
That's only "tiny" because phones today are huge. The Pixel 4a, which passes for small today at 144x69mm has a 3140 mAh battery.
The Jelly Max is 129x63mm, smaller than the iPhone 12 Mini's 132x64mm. That phone has a 2227 mAh battery.
"Security" as an excuse for self-serving bullshit isn't new.
Sure, there's a risk of breaking things. I can do that with a hacksaw and a soldering iron too, and it's widely recognized that it isn't up to the manufacturer of the thing to keep me from breaking it. We need the same understanding for devices that depend on software.