If I were selling a new technology, I'd definitely tell everyone that obvious problems won't be an issue.

Kinda the plot of some of the trashy eco-punk, solar-punk, and post-apocalypse books I read.

Same. I'm happy with installers that I can backup offline, random bits of bonus material like manuals, and native Linux.
I do like cloud sync of save games with a client like Steam (I assume Galaxy does it too). And while Proton is nice for compatibility for companies not willing to put the effort in for native Linux support, I feel like a middle ground of a Wine-like wrapper could be made available to all game developers without having to let Steam manage everything. Maybe some day when I retire I'll take a crack at it.

I'm working on a fantasy emulator that only plays floppy-sized games. It's an artistic choice (or autistic?)

Yea millennials are old enough to have worked in a photo center at a pharmacy where both film and digital processing was done. High quality pictures that can be scaled up to large prints was really only affordable as film for a very long time.

Watching whatever you want when you want to, down to the narrowest interest niche. Versus, watching major productions, marketed to certain audiences and shown at certain times.

As gen X, I think we spit it both ways. But certainly back in the day local and public access shows could get a cult following. Because there was this sense of authenticity even if the production values were low. Certainly Seinfeld, X-Files, 90210, Lois & Clark, and all that were watched back in the day by my generation, we certainly consumed traditional TV in massive quantities. But it was always nice to have something a little quirky and a little homegrown.

As for content length, it's what the algorithm prefers, not necessarily what the audience prefers. Back in the day when gen X was watching mass-marketed commercial television, it's not that we necessarily wanted it, but that there wasn't a lot else on (even with 50 channels of cable). I think the same goes for gen Z. They are watching TikTok because there is SOME aspect of the content that they enjoy, even if it isn't exactly what they would watch if they had better options.

I for one think that a 25-100 episode story arc in 20-minute videos would do very well with gen Z and Millennials, but it would not suit YT or TT algorithms for keeping people engaged. The trick they plan on you is they want you to click on videos, one after another, from various content producers. Rather than riding a playlist like it is a 5 hour long Netflix binge-watch.

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
(it's next year)

Let's run un-auditable algorithms on hardware subjected to periods of intense radiation.

America has long used distractions of creating new external problems instead of solving our internal problems.

Politicians in general are experts at patting themselves on the back for "solving" problems they created in the first place.

Believers are made when God answers prayers.

Never underestimate the value of shifting responsibility onto someone else. If an individual manager at a bank had to make the call in order to approve a loan, it would be too much pressure and most of them would fail at doing it. But if they can pay some self-described expert to distill the decision into a simple metric, then if it doesn't work out the banking management can just shrug and point at it being bad luck. Because they used the industry-accepted expert, so now nobody is to blame.

Regulating markets is a never ending process. At no point can a government just set it and forget it when dealing with capitalism and profit motive.

I mean in the general case, where police officers do a bad job or violate a person's rights.

I bought a toaster oven with wifi. I never set up the wifi but a year later I found out it was listed as having some horrible backdoors and customers found the model being used to probe home networks.

I really don't need this Internet-of-Things. At least not until it is essential mandatory for products to be open and audited properly, ideally certified on some trustworthy way. (Like a UL listed style of certification for network safety)

Sure sue them, that's about the only recourse you have. But also write or call your representatives in the state legislature. Maybe see if anyone at the local news media will pick it up as a story, especially if the details are juicy. Embarrassing the officer publicly, especially after they lose a civil lawsuit can at least make it harder for them to escape their past