> incredibly over priced snake oil.

Military grade snake oil?

When I see "military grade" I assume overpriced $30,000 hammer

> This is expensive, but I found it to be the only viable solution to this problem.

Is it really? £150 on backmarket for a phone which will last 10 years doesn't feel expensive.

Makes sense to me to run any banking on a secure device anyway.

How is a pixel with grapheneos not a secure device?

Ps no it's not rooted but it won't pass full play integrity so it will usually be treated as such.

Also, a properly configured root is not a weakness just like having a computer where you don't log in as admin unless you really need to can be just fine.

A £150 back market phone is not a secure device. It probably stopped receiving security patches a month after its release.

The iPhone SE 2022 I am speaking of above came 150 EUR used. It will receive updates till ~2032.

I did NY to Miami in 2024, I was working in NY one week and Miami the next, made sense to me to have Sat morning down town in New York, then sit in a private hotel room with great food for 24 hours before arriving in New York Sunday evening in time for work the following day.

Could have flown Saturday evening and had an extra day in a hotel room in Miami instead, but I spend enough time in chain hotels

I see a lot of mentions of great food. On the train from DC to NYC, the dining car is like a little league concession stand. Is it better on longer routes?

"centrist dad" is apparently an insult

The only positive quality to centrists and moderates is their endurance of sledgehammer attacks.

The inner pane (isn't it plastic?) is far easier to replace when some annoying kid devices to scratch their tag into it with a nail file.

> The inner pane (isn't it plastic?) is far easier to replace

That's the scratch pane you are referring to.

Yes, it is made of cheap plastic and serves no structural or other purpose other than to protect the real stuff from annoying kids. ;)

We've seen that some open source licenses make way for American money to steal the monetisation -- Elasticsearch found this to their peril when Amazon swooped in and offered it as a service

The other problem is the ability for American companies and funds to just buy European companies.

If Europe wants to stop this is needs to be very aware of the licensing agreements, and to pass laws to limit foreign investment - like China, India etc do.

No, it needs first to encourage local investment. Companies who seek investors or who get sold do not do it by pleasure, but as a last resort before dying. And in the EU you don't get any offer to save a company that has a limited commercial activity. Many companies die every day by lack of money. It turns our that US etc are willing to take much more risk and invest sufficient money to transform such fragile companies into durable ones. And in the case of software it's great, because software is sold all over the world, and the income serves to hire more local people, so in the end it's a way to really develop EU sales to the rest of the world. It would clearly be better if the investors were EU-based, but at least it's better than nothing that some investors are willing to risk their money on such companies.

He had dementia that bad at 57?

Ouch, that's not nice. My grandmother has been in care since 2020 and no idea who anyone is (forgot kids, husbands, etc), but at least she was in her 90s when it started going bad.

n ipv4 /32 is roughly equivalent to an ipv6 /56 or /64

You'd typically block an AS - i.e. every IP originating from AS12345. That's just as easy on v6 as v4.

Only legacy address space is frequently bought and sold, so it moves between AS#s a lot and is also heavily fragmented.

With v6 this is not the case, a given AS# will typically have a single large allocation and can make it larger if they need to, it won't be sold and moved and an entity can't trade it in to get a different allocation.