Is there an up-to-date list of their phones which allow bootloader unlocking? Not all of them do..

Motorola? Is there an up-to-date list of devices where they're "so kind" as to allow bootloader unlocking? Because it's a lottery to me..

It's always a hit or miss with Motorola, but this should up your chances:

https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...

And then they completely removed bootloader unlocking with OneUI 8, in many cases increasing the anti-rollback version so you can't even downgrade.. I can't wait for them to go out of business..

> But foreign labs that illicitly distill American models can remove safeguards

I hope so, I don't need their "safeguards".

Unfortunately current answer is capital owners = owners of the means of production..

Does capitalism work without human labor? What is the economic model for an automated society?

Feudalism : The nobility held lands and means of production from the Crown in exchange for service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's offices, factories and give him homage and labour, in exchange for protection.

If the people running these things are doomers, there's no need for capitalism to work beyond what it takes them to build their compounds and bunkers right now.

And since a large number of them seem to be building compounds and bunkers...

Capitalism can only sort of work when there is balance between the classes. Inevitably, one wins over the other, which leads to fascism or communism, and later a big reset. If the proletariat (i.e. those who depend on a salary to survive) aren't able to sell their work anymore, the owner class won't need them anymore. I personally see three outcomes:

* Apocalyptic but unlikely: the bourgeoisie gets rid of the proletariat and goes on to enjoy boundless luxury.

* Awful but likely: the bourgeoisie throws just enough to the proletariat that they won't rebel, and goes on to enjoy boundless luxury.

* Utopic: the machines' output is democratically decided and evenly distributed among the entire human population.

Keep in mind that the scenario in which machines are able to replace all human labor is still very remote, and won't happen suddenly. I'm sure many things will occur between now and then that will completely invalidate my simplistic predictions.

Nothing to install, no json to edit, no login req.. oh wait no, not that one..

I understand that you need an account to save/publish stuff on their servers, but I would really love a "guest mode" where I can just try it out, maybe even save to LocalStorage.

Exactly my thoughts.

"Forget about everything the gives you power and pay some rent to use this abstraction instead!!"

If this was the internet back when I started using a personal computer, I would put it down and do something else.

They publish local development tools too, this is just another option if you want it.

Are these lawmakers funded by Apple and Google?

Android was never open. User apps are limited, only system apps can do X which means third party apps can't compete with Google and this is not a coincidence.

Let's focus on making it possible to use really open Linux systems on smartphones.

There are some functionality limited to google play services, but it really is not too much in my opinion.

The amount of open stuff that was migrated into the Play Services closed source blob over the years just keeps growing.

I still can't comprehend why they implemented FIDO/WebAuthn support in Play Services. Passkeys are extremely difficult to support in apps that don't depend on Play Services client libraries.

Because they don't want you using Google-free Android

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I was talking about the whole permissions system where the user is a third class citizen. Device manufacturers are second class citizens (restricted by Google via CDD/CTS) and the only true winner on that system is Google.

Regarding some concrete examples - Google can deeply integrate Gemini, but a competitor can't do this and users get no final say here either. Competitors are restricted by the permission system, Google is not restricted at all.

While rooting can alleviate this to some extent, Play Integrity is there to make sure the user regrets that decision to break free..

They're losing money on this $200 plan and they're essentially paying you to make you dependent on Claude Code so they can exploit this (somehow) in the future.

It's a bizarre plan because nobody is 'dependent' on Claude Code; we're begging to use alternatives. It's the model we want!

You’re not really paying for the model, you’re paying for the tool, the ecosystem, and the application layer around it.

Sonnet 4.6 in CC doesn’t behave the same way as Sonnet 4.6 in Antigravity.

Skills is a generic construct. System prompt is generic as well. Subagents, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md etc. these are generic, "please care for my instruction" kind of constructs without any real guarantee to close gaps.

Tool is generic (CC vs OpenCode) Ecosystem is already same everywhere.

I don't understand what's the point.

The point is that wrappers matter. Orchestration, tool calls, reasoning loops, system prompts, agentic capabilities. Output is different, quality is different.

This is the moat for AI frontier companies.

And it's their 'ecosystem' they want to sell you.

When using Claude Code, it's possible to opt out of having one's sessions be used for training. But is that opt out for everything? Or only message content, such that there could remain sufficient metadata to derive useful insight from?

This confirms they're selling those subscriptions at a loss which is simply not sustainable.

They probably are but I don’t think that’s what this confirms. Most consumer flat rate priced services restrict usage outside of the first party apps, because 3rd party and scripted users can generate orders of magnitude more usage than a single user using the app can.

So it makes sense to offer simple flat pricing for first party apps, and usage priced apis for other usage. It’s like the difference between Google Drive and S3.

I get your point - they might count on the user not using their full quota they're officially allowed to use (and if that's the case, Anthropic is not losing money). But then still - IF the user used the whole quota, Anthropic loses.. so what's advertised is not actually honest.

For me, flat rates are simply unfair either ways - if I'm not using the product much, I'm overpaying (and they're ok with that), otherwise it magically turns out that it's no longer ok when I actually want to utilize what I paid for :)

At any rate, they offer the option to be billed exactly on your usage via the API. But if you tell the average person the service costs $x/million tokens they will have no idea how much that actually costs, they won't know what a token is or how much their employees are likely to use. While $30/user/month is something they can easily budget for and get approved.