In theory. In practice even with a valid US passport in hand you won't pass KYC without proof of address. To get an address costs either money to get a place or lots of time spent with social workers, assuming they're even accessible, to get the legally valid evidence of a homeless shelter as your address.
Additionally, when I was living in poverty at least I often was living in legally precarious housing with no mail access and landlords that didn't want any "on-the-record" evidence and thus no proof of my address. KYC is a big expensive burden on the poor that blocks banking access.
Tell that to people who spent years unbanked, cashing their paychecks at a van that would pull into the factory parking lot on payday, like me 20 years ago.
The only asterisk to that statement would be if OP was a Mac user. Using Firefox for reddit and youtube nets me 4 hours of battery life on a 2020 13 inch MacBook Pro, while safari will get my 6.5-8 hours with the same usage.
Some years ago Firefox was near-unusable on MacBooks because it started spinning fans like crazy after a few minutes, eating battery in 30 minutes. But it had improved immensely since that time.
Speaking of Safari, maybe it's a matter of preference or habit, but for me it's has a very weird UX
I also think that leasing or buying used negates the car-rental argument. The costs of owning a used sedan are very low, and the on-demand convenience imho beats renting a car for $8/hr. Leasing enables one to have a new car without taking the depreciation hit.
> Leasing enables one to have a new car without taking the depreciation hit.
That's not accurate. With a lease you're just paying for the depreciation directly, at a predetermined rate.
It can definitely make sense, though. I leased a Bolt for my wife for $6K for three years. Even if she only drove it once every week or so it would be hard to do on-demand rental for less.
I bought my HomePod mainly for its value as a speaker first -- at $199 I don't think any Sonos or Harman competitor can produce such high-fidelity sound.
I also put more trust into Apple/Siri than I do with Alexa or Google. Their differential privacy and anonymized Siri requests have limited the speaker to few features which in my experience work well with the latest 13.x OS.
There is a team taking advantage (jailbreaking on iOS) of the security flaw in all A-series chips up to A11 in the hardware-level bootloader. The T2 in your 2018 or newer Mac is a variant of the A10.
The bootROM flaw allows for an exploit that can only be executed with physical access, another Mac and DFU mode. It's not persistent.
The main use of this exploit was to install unsigned code on iOS devices (jailbreaking.) The team is doing it for free, however many contributors take advantage of Apple's bug bounty program for income, therefore making newer devices more secure.
I would say it is persistent enough to be malicious. The T2 does not reboot, with the exception occuring during a DFU restore, extremely drained battery, or firmware update. With that in mind, a party intending harm would have more than enough time.
