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We have finite resources on this planet. At a certain point we're gonna have a hard time finding the materials needed for things. Putting those resources into shared infrastructure like public transit means a more efficient use of those materials to benefit more people. A city bus can hold 42 people and uses far less resources and street space than 42 personal vehicles.
So much this! Electric cars also take up the same amount of space and don't solve traffic. Plus they use so much more resources with less efficiency of moving people. Making them self driving and fast comes into conflict with pedestrians and cyclists in dense urban environments. Would rather see high speed electric trains for long distances and trolleys, light rail, busses, and bike lanes for getting around the city.
This specific issue has been there for years, long before covid. So not sure why you're jumping on covid being the cause here. The erosion of civil liberties specific to covid are mostly temporary emergency powers, which again aren't even at play here.
Also this Microsoft press release has a lot more information in it than the Rueters article https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/06/30/the-nee... "We have reviewed the number of secrecy orders that federal law enforcement agencies have presented to us from 2016 to the present, a period that spans the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. We found that while the number has increased some, federal law enforcement has consistently presented us with 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders each year, or 7-10 per day, representing one-quarter to one-third of all the legal demands we received. These are just the demands that Microsoft, just one cloud service provider, received. "
I was so frustrated that reporting spam was desktop only. To add insult to injury if you try to go to the web app on your Android phone in a desktop tab it still opens the Android app instead. Since I was at work (and I don't login to any personal accounts on my work laptop) I had to use Firefox mobile to mark them all as spam.
That's not a very good analogy, Apple makes it impossible to run your own app store in their ecosystem. Ford isn't doing anything to stop others from servicing your vehicle, they still provide parts, training, etc to competing third parties.
A year ago Target pledged to increase it's starting hourly wage to $15/hr by 2020. Currently starting pay is $12/hr
Source: https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/09/minimum-hourly-...
Haven't they ever heard of a UUID? Or if they are worried about potential collisions at least make the number 128bit (since you have an obscenely large max value to increment to).
The power drain could also be from poorly optimized supporting chips/shipsets like microcontrolers, WiFi Cards, and other periphery devices.