Yea I don't doubt that capitalist greed goes into it too.

And in the case of true fear of liability lawsuits, even that also has capitalist greed undertones:

Imagine you're building random-iot-device-with-a-lithium-battery. You could:

1. Build the whole thing so it's easily hackable

Your lawyers point out prior art in liability cases around exploding/burning lithium-powered-devices and won't really approve release without some precautionary measures

2. Properly isolate and test the battery and related systems, ensure they can't possibly overheat even in the face of arbitrary input from the rest of the system, if modified. Lock down the battery parts, leave everything else open.

3. Do some testing on the whole-ass system to assuage your lawyers, and then lock the whole thing down

3 is typically cheaper, a lot of companies then open door 3 instead of 2.

Capitalism and liability lawsuits tag teaming here imo

Side note, the reason we have a litigious society imo is because most companies reach for door #4

4. Yolo, release unsafe product even with company's own firmware, fires and explosions ensue, people are maimed and die, lawsuits follow. Because lawsuits are the only recourse, we don't hold the companies criminally liable or anything.

Idk what the word for it is

Hackintosh typically refers to running not-MacOS on apple hardware? Imo this project of removing almost all of the inner guts and using effectively a Frankenstein'd collection of things to reconstitute it into laptop needs a different word.

If it were me I would choose

Franekntosh

And sadly it's only going to get harder and harder. More stuff is going to get locked down - not just PCs and PC-adjacent stuff like PS/XBox/etc.

It's already somewhat involved to get new firmware on a lot of network connected home devices you buy, but it'll become even more difficult.

3D printers are about to get pushed over the edge via legislation.

Tractors.... gestures wildly at Deere

You can't fix software problems in your dishwasher or fridge.

Liability lawsuits drive a lot of this :/

Ok I will endeavor to be more precise when I'm talking about modern/practical rifles, and not just like literally any gun at all.

The relevant point is that the line for gun ownership pushed by the Democrats (at least where I am) is way far away from the line for gun ownership pushed by Republicans.

And when stating that line, it strikes me as an odd position to take when I'm also simultaneously being told that Republicans are going to go even farther hard right / authoritarian/ take-over / w/e, while also keeping the fairly pro-Republican police armed to the teeth (again, with modern rifles).

Trump supporting red flag laws or not seems kinda like a distraction. Trump supporters saying they can shoot protestors is exactly what I'm pointing out - if that is what we're scared the future will hold, why push for giving up modern rifles?

Ah yea sorry, I meant literally my guns, as in the ones I use for service rifle competition. Those guns specifically, like the practical ones, are definitely on the docket. In fact if I moved to my current state today, I wouldn't be able to bring my guns.

Yes they will allow me to have a deer rifle with a 5-10rd capacity.