Electricity. I'm a field electrician studying the engineering side.
Electricity is all about guiding voltage and current in a preferred direction as to do some form of work, whether it's producing light, turning a motor, or integrating into logic circuits to make your computer do tricks.
To keep yourself in the clear, don't touch the shiny bits.
Shit I haven't had a vacation in 3 years since my honeymoon, and mainly because 1) money, 2) time. I make decent money doing my own thing as an electrician, but costs have spiraled so far out of control that I'm working my ass off just to keep us afloat. I've been contemplating hanging that up and getting a job just to get healthcare and retirement, of which I can't afford if I want to stay competitive in my pricing.
There is no guaranteed paid time off here in the states, it's a "benefit" of whatever company someone works at (including federal holidays). And even then, many people are guilted into not taking their allocated time off for fear of very real reprisal (missing out on promotions, etc).
It's really fucked up and I don't wanna play anymore.
the first thing I'd do would be login (cause it's necessary), enable adb, disconnect the internet, block firmware updates, and restrict dns then reconnect to the internet.
You have to realize maybe a small handful of people that own these devices will do any of that. They'll just plug in and go. Sure they may know how to side load, but they aren't taking any other preventative measures as you suggest, nor do they have the know-how to do so.
I'd imagine Amazon initiated these via firmware updates that just about anyone would blindly install. The updates probably included scripts to uninstall any "unauthorized" APKs, disable developer options, restore factory system settings, lock the user profile from modifying the system, etc.
I suspect that oil companies have CA over a barrel. Part of what makes fuel in CA so expensive is that CA requires a special blend be sold here, much of which is refined locally. That all said, I suspect that should the state actually impose these fines, the refiners would simply refuse to produce or artificially limit supply, sending prices and CA into a frenzy, the anger of which would be directed at the state. The refiners know this, and therefore the state has limited options to keep the peace.
I'd love to see humanity collectively rise up and tell the wealthy and powerful where to stick it, but it's important to remember that some small group of dickheads have been vying for control and domination of everyone else at some point for pretty much the entire existence of humanity. This is merely just the next iteration of that.
But it'd be fucking rad if we could finally break that cycle.
It also took quite a while for consequences to appear. It'd really be nice to nip this in the bud now than have to go some 15 years before we can see the light.
If honestly be curious how that would work out. CA tends to know the value of immigration, and i couldn't really see them holding a policy of closed borders, at least not in the long run.
Californian here, bye Felicia. I'm fucking done with my hard earned money going towards ungrateful backwoods idiots that actively hate me, my state, and my neighbors because they're told to by thuh teevee, yet don't realize it. I'm done subsiding hatred for the sake of it, because "it's the right thing to do." I'm done being at the political whim of people that can't spell potato. I have a lot of heart for my countrymen, but considering far too many of them hate us for reasons they don't even understand, I don't see the point anymore.
The only thing they give a shit about is sending a message that the privileged class is untouchable and not to be messed with. Look no further than how lax they're treating the guy that popped those Minnesota congresspeople, the rich are in a different league and must be revered as such.
That's a key thing to remember here. The assholes of the world are still human at the end of the day, and have the same mortality as the rest of us. The only thing they have on any of us individually is access to resources, but as was said, there's more of us than them, thus why they keep us fighting amongst ourselves.
And this is how you end up with multiple freezers lol