I agree with this so much. Imo a lot of the far right's argument is based on reducing "waste" Which they promptly redefine as "profit" and now everything is fixed.
not ipads, those are locked down. Macs though, they have an open bootloader and so far M1 and M2 chips have pretty good linux support, fully reverse-engineered:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
Entitled mods... you mean the people who work for free to make reddit work? I'm not a mod and I don't have very strong opinion of reddit moderators one way or another (many do), but I think reddit would do well not to make mods angry. They are an unpaid work force.
Anyone who has run a forum knows that mods are paid, usually with ego or duty or power, but they certainly get something from it. Else hundreds of people wouldn't want to be moderators of small phpbb forums much less thousands of people on reddit.
Either way, I don't think compensation swivels the "entitled, power-tripping reddit mod" trope where they ban from their subreddit if you make a comment they disagree with. It's one of reddit's biggest problems.
As far as I can tell, the business model of modern social media is to make money by selling advertisers access to children, gamblers, addicts, and profligates. The content and moderation that people think is the purpose of social media doesn't actually make any money and never has.
Yeah, I've read in the past some busts of big drug submarines, but I think having some small drone subs would make much more sense:
1. Unlike air drones, relatively small sub drones would be much more difficult to spot and intercept. The ocean is already filled with a lot of stuff like fish, so it seems like it would be relatively easy to camouflage.
2. One lost drone is a relatively small loss vs. having a big sub get intercepted and lose millions worth of product.
3. Now sure how big of a battery you'd need. Curious how long, say, a 2 mile long swim by a small sub would require in kWh.
The issue is range, as you hint at with your last point. Because of how hydrodynamics works, big ships/subs are more efficient than small ones, and so it's relatively hard to make a small sub with enough range to be useful (or even enough thrust to reliably make progress in the open ocean).
A dead golden goose containing one last giant golden egg. They don't care if it's dead, so long as they can cash out on the archived data that can be sold for training.
