I think they just mean they should have control over the modem. They are all locked down and proprietary with known backdoors throughout history, effectively bypassing any OS level security.

It’s just a minor convenience, not sure why that’s confusing.

I can set the temperature from anywhere, that’s nice.

Learning more languages always helps understanding ime. I’d recommend learning C.

Cars separate core functionality from the infotainment system. I’d fully expect foss infotainment to be significantly higher quality.

Software is often terrible and the only person who was going to fix it was myself. Of course that was only possible because I enjoyed the type of logic puzzles that entailed. I also found community within a few software projects that motivated me.

YouTube is insanely large in size and scope but…

The key is just a platform that actually pays creators.

Nebula is one I expect to succeed for its niche.

Something like Floatplane with direct subscriptions is an option too.

Linux APIs are 8bit, instead of 16bit, however the filesystem encoding can be anything if the user wants.

In practice we all use UTF-8 but correct software has to encode to the correct one just in case.

There is also still a max path length, but it’s longer like 4096.