VLC is currently in FDroid, though perhaps there was a time when it had been removed.
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There's two main suggestions in science-fiction. Utility Fog and Uploading. The one with the hardest limits to reach is the second one. It has them all the same. Nevertheless, both allow for a degree of ability to disregard your world's limitations.
The awareness of incapacity due to physical or other limitations is part of normal disillusionment and disappointment with reality.
More variation will not lead to some magical environment that works for all. If one gets oneself modified to survive unaided on say... Mars or Europa, there's significant chances one is not easily compatible with other environments.
tl;dr physical reality sucks, virtualize all the things
Or, and I realize this is a long shot, we could come to the realization that "intellectual property" is an oxymoron.
Small hope, I know.
Copyright getting in the way of knowledge and sharing is not new, and purely-digital copies doesn't solve the problem.
Some might be interested: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
> Can easily put the same amount of effort to ensure that phone isn't tampered with
You put a proprietary app on your phone. You presumably did this for other "secure" companies too. You no longer have a way to know who did or didn't tamper with it.
Now books, easily copied?
When's the last time you tried to share a copy of a book with a friend? Or did you buy a blank and copy it by hand? While that's a laudable example of dedication it's not exactly easy nor convenient.
Cheapness is likewise debatable, printing out a 300-pages book is fairly expensive.
Most other concerns are concerns only if you use broken-by-design sources.
I'd like to highlight that synthesizers are very easily available now. As for physical instruments... it hasn't really improved or worsened significantly in the last few decades.
There being less easily available music wouldn't lead to more people learning how to make it. Just people coping without it.
Are we now assuming PKI is fundamentally broken or that one were dumb enough to download an apk from a plain http site?
I'm not going to address the rest of the comment as I don't feel like it, but they'd have to know in the first place.
Nowhere in my contract was "dying for my employer" written, so I would rather not.
This relies on what should be a reasonable assumption that the latex source is provided.
Guess what libraries provide? Free book and computer access. Nothing changes.
For bonus points, simply distribute the latex file so that the users can convert and read it in whatever alternative format they prefer besides html.
Or basically, semantic focus rather than presentation.
Or you could parity-pad your backups so even 20% corruption is still recoverable and periodically renew them. Several orders of magnitude cheaper.
Yes and no. It may lead to dangerous expressions, but plain chemical testing and analysis prior to commercial release should ensure nothing toxic makes it into people's food.
If your apples suddenly start producing magnitudes more cyanide after modifying something, just don't sell them.
Of course, if you bother shielding the building, you don't even need jammers, because there's no signal going through anyway.
Ideally that's what we would do.
There's an ethical and moral aspect here you're ignoring.
So screen-reader usability is still a thing. The fact it's not using a proper standard open protocol is a problem.