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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

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EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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Week 9 - 10 (5th Company Interview)

Techno Blast Computer Trading

This business is situated at Rizal street and owned by Sir Jose, it was opened in 2013 this business operates to 8 hours in a day. At the moment, the company has 26 employees and one branch only. They include repair of personal computers and selling of new full sets of personal computer, spare parts of personal computers and other computer related accessories. The have business permits such as the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). They supply the public which always require PC part or Pc repairs they have usual customers including dealers from the Cagayan de Oro (CDO). They are direct competitors to other stores that sell computer repair and computer parts within the same market area. One of the issues is added expenses are paid in case in building or repairing Pcs the wrong thing was done.

Ferma

Ferma Printing Station owned by Shienna Maramba is limed in Corrales Extension in front of Capitol University. Their main services are printing as well as photocopying, more so targeting students since they are close to a school. Corona Agencies Limited started in 2010 and is licensed and operates with all necessary permits.

Gadget Pro Repair Services

Gadget Pro is under Sir Argo and situated at Corrales Street near Nuda and opens from 8 to 10 hours in a day. Founded in 2022 but the former is a different division with a business partner for some reasons, they decided to go different ways and Sir Argo is the sole owner of Gadget Pro and has an additional branch in Uptown. Currently, they are using 4 employees and provide services in gadget repair, particularly targeting iOS gadgets. They all possess legal documents and legal procedures, and have the necessary certificates. Even though they do not serve any niche market, they have the ever green ‘suki’ clientele.

Borj Buko House

This business is owned by Boborgs, started eight years ago and is having a numbers of branches mostly situated in campuses such as MOGCHS and Kauswagan High school and Villa School. Selling their most requested buko juice for just 10 pesos per cup, they have their own special branding. They carry all legal papers that could be needed. Big competitors are nearby the Divisoria area where other vendors also sell buko juice. An important weakness is that their offices are located in new areas, rent costs a lot of money and customers are not numerous initially in the new outlets.

Always Coffe

Owned by Justin Schwartz and Metzti Amaya branch near in Xavier University, with 24 hour operation through 12 hour shift of the employee. Basically their main revenue stream is beverages and more so beverages that include coffee. They have many competitors in their area since majority of the pabayo st is composed of coffe/milktea shop. They also have the legal documents though as much as I would have loved to take a picture of it, I couldn’t. The owner also has a vision that the business will still expand, the problem that the business has faced is that the customer felt that, it bitter and not sweet enough.

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sacabin · 7 months ago

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BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Always Coffee

Owned by Justin Schwartz and Metzti Amaya, Always Coffee is located near Xavier University and operates 24 hours a day with employees working 12-hour shifts. Their main offering is coffee and various drinks, though they face stiff competition from other coffee and milk tea shops on Pabayo Street. Despite holding all the necessary legal documents, the owners have faced feedback that their coffee is often described as too bitter and not sweet enough. They are optimistic about expanding their business and continuing to grow, although competition remains a significant challenge.

Borj Buko House

Founded by Boborgs 8 years ago, Borj Buko House has multiple branches, mainly inside school campuses like MOGCHS, Kauswagan High School, and Villa School. Their primary product is buko juice, which costs just 10 pesos per cup. While they have all required legal documentation, they face competition from other buko juice vendors, particularly near Divisoria. A key challenge is the high cost of rent when opening new branches, which can slow the sales of new locations until they gain traction.

Gadget Pro Repair Services

Gadget Pro, located on Corrales Street near Nuda, was established in 2022 and is owned by Sir Argo. Although the business originally started under a different name with a business partner, issues led to the partnership dissolving, and Sir Argo now runs the business independently. Gadget Pro specializes in repairing iOS devices and has a second branch in Uptown. With four employees, they do not have a specific target market but have a loyal customer base ("suki"). The business holds complete legal documentation and operates between 8-10 hours daily.

Ferma Printing Station

Ferma Printing Station, owned by Shaina Maramba, is located on Corrales Extension near Capitol University. Established in 2010, the business offers printing and xerox services, primarily catering to students due to its proximity to schools. They have all the necessary business permits and continue to operate as a reliable service provider for students needing copies and prints.

Techno Blast Computer Trading

Techno Blast, located on Rizal Street and owned by Sir Jose, has been in operation since 2013. With 26 employees, it offers PC repairs, sales of PC sets, and related computer parts. Although they do not target a specific customer group, they serve a wide range of individuals and dealers, particularly those needing computer repairs or parts. Despite having all required legal documentation, Techno Blast faces competition from similar businesses in the area. One of their main challenges is dealing with mistakes in PC builds or repairs, which can result in unexpected additional costs.

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harvie27 · 8 months ago

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Week 9 (5th Company Interview)

Always Coffee

owned by Justin Schwartz and Metzti Amaya branch near in Xavier University, which operates for 24 hours with 12 hour shifts of employee. The primary product they sell is drinks and especially coffees. They have a lot of competitors in their area because most of the pabayo st is full of coffe/milktea shop. They also have the legal documents but unfortunately I don't have a picture of it. The owner also has a vision that the business will still expand, most of the challenges that they encounter is that the customer will say that its bitter and not sweet enough.

Borj Buko House

owned by Boborgs, established last 8 years and has other branches and mostly inside the campus like mogchs, kauswagan highschool, villa school. The primary product that they offer is the buko juice that cost only 10 pesos per cup, they also have legal documents, and also the competitors around their area is near divisiora which also sells buko like them. The biggest challenges they face is that when they add a new branch because the rent is expensive and the product wont sell that quickly because it is new.

Gadget Pro Repair Services

can be located in Corrales st. near nuda, owned by sir Argo, they operate around 8-10 hours daily. It was established around 2022 but they have a previous branch but the name was changed because it was supposed to be a business partner but got some issues and both decided to split up so this one right here the Gadget Pro is now oned by sir Argo and also has another branch in uptown. They have 4 employees. The main services that they offer is repair on gadget primarily on IOS devices. They also have legal documents and it was complete. They dont have specific target market and also have a customer who is their "suki".

Ferma

Ferma printing station, the daughters owner, Shaina Maramba. Located in Corrales Extension near Capitol University, their main service is that they print and xerox copy and the target market of them is mostly students since they are near in school. Established around way back 2010, they also have the business permits.

Techno Blast Computer Trading

can be located in Rizal St. owned by Sir Jose, they operate around 8 hours daily, it was established in 2013. They have overall 26 employees and as of the moment it is the only branch that they have right now. The primary offer that they have is repair pc and also sell pc sets and pc parts and other related computer stuff. They also have like business permits like bir. They dont have an specific customers, they are open to all who needs an pc parts and repairs to the pc. They also have a repeater client and mostly dealers around cdo. The competitors around their area is other store that are similar to them. The challenges that they face is like when theres an mistake in building pc or repairing pc that cost them extra money.

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superitsolutions · 1 year ago

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lizseyi · 1 year ago

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Dust Testing At Cranage EMC And Safety – Cranage

What adverse impacts does dust ingress have on electronic products?

In today’s world, it is customary for domestic, public, and commercial spaces alike to be heavily populated with electronic products.

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krishnaservice · 1 year ago

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dawesautomotiveservice · 2 years ago

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Car Service in Glenorchy

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Tassie Automotive

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chubbycaucasianchristiancloseted · 2 years ago

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Remember this is what a peaceful transition of power looks like!

Remember this is what a peaceful transition of power looks like! $14,000 in damages of federal property by the blameless and righteous Democratic administration, who then said “The real scandal” “is how much time and money” was spent during the investigation.

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an investigative arm of Congress, said today that ''damage, theft, vandalism and pranks did occur in the White House complex'' in the presidential transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush. The agency put the cost at $13,000 to $14,000, including $4,850 to replace computer keyboards

Glue was smeared on desk drawers. Messages disparaging President Bush were left on signs and in telephone voice mail. A few of the messages used profane or obscene language.

Six White House employees told investigators that they had seen graffiti derogatory to Mr. Bush on the wall of a stall in a men's room.

''Any intentional damage at the White House complex, which is a national treasure, is both inappropriate and a serious matter,'' the report said. ''The theft of or willful damage to government property would constitute a criminal act.''

Bush officials said they had found offices full of trash, broken furniture and filthy carpets. Clinton administration officials insisted that the dirt and damage reflected normal wear and tear.

The accounting office confirmed that $9,324 had been spent to repair or replace various items and to clean offices. That included $4,850 for 62 keyboards, $2,040 for 26 cellphones and $1,150 for professional cleaning. In addition, the White House and the General Services Administration estimated that it cost $3,750 to $4,675 to replace missing doorknobs, medallions and office signs and the large presidential seal, the accounting office said.

'The real scandal here,'' Ms. Palmieri said, ''is how much time and money the Republicans have wasted in a vendetta against the Clinton administration. It's troubling that the White House cooperated so enthusiastically with this investigation, but refused to provide the G.A.O. with records of the energy task force headed by Vice President Cheney.''

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shoshanews · 7 months ago

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