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I've had a Withings Steel HR (was briefly owned by Nokia) for 5 years and would recommend it to anyone. About £150 new, still achieves a month plus battery and in that time all I've done is change the band a few times.

I would admit that it would take many years to make a dent, but there's no rush to it. Windows seems a sitting duck. Nobody, including Microsoft, seems to care about it.

Microsoft are too busy making money on Azure and M365 subscriptions for the hundreds of thousands of companies heavily invested in Microsoft apps. Windows is just one platform to get users to those apps. Microsoft are pushing Intune/MEM so organisations can push Microsoft apps to all devices including Apple ones. They don't care about the OS because it's not important.

I know people that don't think raising the minimum wage basically just causes inflation. They're just wondering why apartments in undesirable areas became 3x more expensive when minimum wage went from $5 to $15.

That's a pretty poor example though as there are many factors that contribute to property prices and there isn't just a mechanical link between wages and house prices.

Sadly closed my Monzo account down recently after applying for a joint account with my partner and being denied with no explanation (both long term users, good credit etc). Apparently a common story. Opened a Starling account and got one straight away. It's a shame because the Monzo user interface is miles better.

Perhaps you don't but these are critical features in many businesses. The company I work for does government contracts where we have 3000 line cost models that are shared by 6+ organisations and maintained by 20+ people with daily updates. Without having them accessible by everyone at once, people would be creating daily copies which would need to get reconciled.

It could also be because the on paper rental value is higher than the actual market rate of rental. By renting out you decrease the on paper value which limits your ability to use it in collateral for further property loans. It's why in some city's some commercial property will sit vacant for years without the owner decreasing the rate to get tenants in.

Insider trading prevents information from being available to all parties by definition. That argument essentially essentially means that a certain amount of people should be allowed be defrauded to find the correct market price.

Real estate is an especially bad example too because when selling a house you have to disclose any information about the property that may affect it's future value or risk legal action - but still real estate fraud continues.

I work for an MSP who uses the MFA function of a password manager to access customer accounts, this means 2FA codes can be shared across teams of people and offers significant protection against credentials being stolen as they can't be used once access is revoked to the password manager. We turn off exporting the MFA codes so that also can't be stolen.