After XP, though, the work in the core OS was basically done
There were a lot of big things happening in computer hardware: migration to 64-bit instruction sets and memory addressing, multicore processors, the rise of the GPU. The security paradigm also shifted to less trust between programs, with a lot of implementation details on encryption and permissions.
So I'd argue that Windows has some pretty different things going on under the hood from what it was 20 years ago.
Oh damn, just read about these baseband exploits. Ok, you've changed my mind.
Yeah, Spotify is trying to force the same thing with a similarly muddled interface.
YouTube Music is still worse, though, in that it's also tied to YouTube the video hosting service, plus a music streaming service, plus a podcast streaming service.
We just all got lazy and decided to congregate around pre built platforms.
It's not just laziness. The economies of scale can potentially be worth huge cost savings, and higher reliability, in addition to a significantly less burdensome workload to maintain. Especially for smaller sites.
I mean even when I was running my own homelab for years, the FOSS software I relied on was in many ways "pre-built platforms." From the Linux kernel to a distro package manager (and all the maintained packages), I was always standing on the shoulder of giants anyway.
We're starting to see it in some cameras, mostly for still photography, but I don't see why the basic concept wouldn't extend to video files, too. Leica released a camera last year that signs the photo, including the timestamp and location data, and Canon, Nikon, Sony, Adobe, and Getty have various implementations of the technique.
Once the major photo software editing workflows support it, we'll probably see some kind of chain of custody authentication support from camera to publication.
Of course, that doesn't prevent fakes in the sense of staged productions, but the timestamp and location data would go a long way.
Stingrays don't do shit for this. That's mostly real time location data focused in by tricking your phone into reporting its location to a fake cell tower controlled by an adversary. That doesn't get into the data in your phone, and even if someone used the fake tower to man in the middle, by default pretty much all of a phone's Internet traffic is encrypted from the ISP.
The world of breaking disk encryption on devices is a completely different line of technology, tools, and techniques.
Who determines whats reasonable?
The government decides that, and then if the requestor doesn't like it, they can kick it to a court for review.
Weight distribution and jiggle control is something I can't relate to though
It's not hard. Put on a really heavy backpack and leave the straps super loose, and go try to move around, maybe a few athletic moves that involve changing speed or direction. Compare to a tight backpack with a waistband and shoulder straps properly strapped to your body, and try to move around again. The straps help control the extra motion so that you're in better control.
Or run around in shoes 5 sizes too big. Or go for a run with your arms loose and intentionally left limp, swinging around like pendulums.
The whole world has a million examples of why providing bracing and support makes for more efficient and comfortable movement.
The weight itself is an engineering challenge.
With passenger vehicles, the problems have largely been solved. With motorcycles, there are still some tradeoffs on range (especially highway). With large cargo trucks, the weight causes issues with range, weight capacity, and charging times. With aircraft, there's not really competition on the horizon.
And electrification of heat production itself for climate control, cooking, hot water, industrial processes, etc. is coming along, too, on an application by application basis. (But note that the energy "lost" to heat is less of a factor for these uses.)
Yeah, so you have to divide it by a factor of 5. Which still makes gasoline roughly 5 times as energy dense than this prototype battery, instead of 25 times.
There's no such thing as "ASAP" for nuclear power
Sure there is. It's just that the P stands for "20 years from now."
Doesn't this formula assume that electricity costs the same everywhere at that particular moment? The wholesale price of electricity can vary significantly across different parts of national grids, and certainly can vary significantly between countries, especially countries whose electricity prices are denominated in different currencies.
And then the actual end user price of the electricity can be hedged with futures and other options/contracts/securities, to where two people using power from the same grid are paying very different prices. And once you introduce financial instruments, the bottom line cost might depend on stuff like interest rates or other financial/economic conditions local to that place.