It proves you already had a tablet with replaceable batteries…

What if code should also be shared freely?

You need to own both Skyrim and Oblivion for the mod to work, that might keep them safe.

Sadly they were too optimistic and their leaders listened to smart people unlike ours.

Smart != benevolent

but at that point the courts might decide either way and litigation costs money.

It also sets a precedent which makes it easier for Nintendo and other companies to sue open source developers. It would have been bad for everyone in the emulation community if they went to court and lost.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law

They keep doing it because they know they’ll probably get away with it, and if they get caught they’ll get a slap on the wrist. Martha Stewart went to jail for perjury, not insider trading. If she hadn’t lied she probably would have just paid a fine instead of going to jail.

You can also use the standard android CLI tools to lock and unlock the bootloader, but that web app is really convenient.

Edit: and for anyone wondering, you can re-lock it with any ROM, or after rooting (you don’t lose root). I’m running grapheneos with a locked bootloader. Only difference between this and the stock ROM is a message that’s displayed when you boot that warns you the phone isn’t stock.

I’m also glad I’ve kept my quest isolated from the internet once I enabled dev mode (for oculess). I’ve noticed it tries to connect to IP addresses owned by Meta (according to whois), without any dns queries involved. Your pihole won’t be able to block that… I went a few steps farther and set up a dedicated wifi network that only allows local traffic. Then I set up a http proxy (squid) that only allows connections to certain websites. I mostly use the quest for PCVR though, so the proxy doesn’t get much use.

And thanks for sharing oculuskiller! I’ve been looking for something like that for a while.