A 3rd party sensor would be incredibly expensive for inspection stations to purchase as it would need to meter the air and fuel which enter the engine (assuming we aren't going to trust the car's computer which already knows these figures) as well as to measure the emissions out of the tail pipe. This is economically unrealistic to implement without a dramatic price increase in the cost of regular emissions testing.

Trusting the computer is the economical and realistically widely implementable solution. But yes, it has it's blind spots.

Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems. But it will take time to repair their reputation in the PC market.

I’m sure the same kind of thing would be possible using Prusa’s documented methods with a little extra work.

Smaller quants for the model start to fall off but more importantly, smaller KV-cache quants fall off much faster so avoid less than Q8 there.

The TPM is used for measured boot, the post process to understand what actually was booted and if the right set of things were booted then to allow unlocking of specific items like keys.

Both are important but they are not the same thing.

The existing secure boot mechanisms aren't bad, but allowing for more than one public key hash in OTP would be nice, too.

These kinds of things are expected to be on modern embedded SOCs and SOMs now.

Generally, unless a similar license or legal terms are required to be agreed to by the end user, nothing stops the end user from reversing said binary blobs. But before you attempt this, be sure you fully understand every legal document which was presented to you by the device vendor. Click-through EULAs included.

If you need to know it’s been persisted to non-volatile storage then you need to own the full stack of every piece of software between the OS and the actual physical memory.

Every managed flash drive is going to have layers and layers of complexity and caching and things you simply can’t easily control or really understand. Don’t trust it unless you know exactly how it works all the way down.

NVIDIA gross margins lately are like 75%, so it's more like you give me $100 to buy something from me that cost me $25 to produce, hence I end up with $100 worth of stock in your company and it only cost me $25.