From TFA: "Tc 400 K, 127 C". Unless your room is a furnace, it's a very practical room temperature.

I came to tell a similar story, but from my country. We had a similar situation years ago, where like 3 or 4 big telcos dominated the market. In the day places like Europe, South Korea and some American areas were long enjoying blazing fast FTTH, we had monopolized, slow, unstable and overpriced ADSL, if we're lucky.
And we did learn that in SK the secret for such high quality internet was competition. In big cities there were dozens of internet companies.
And by some sort of miracle, our politicians, in a strike of good sense never seen before in our land, decided to decrease red tape in the land internet business, to improve competition.
Soon, many smol guys fiber companies appeared, offering triple the speed, single digit ping, nice stability and benefits like included streaming subscriptions, for half, even one third the price the Big Telco were extorting us.
TLDR: in my small and rural city of a (barely) developing country, where there was only 1 crappy expensive option, now we have like 5 good options for affordable prices, thanks to less regulation.
Oh and all the Big Telcos are now in financial trouble, some already broke and were absorbed by some of the others.
For me all of them deserve to crash and burn, good riddance to them.

Magpies are starting to outsmart humans.
Give them enough time and they're surpass us, and we'll have a Planet of the Corvids, specially given the recent de-evolution of the human intellect.
Oh well, anyway. I, for one, welcome our new feathered overlords.

I don't see this working for small, particular cars. People just won't swap their brand new batteries for possibly worn ones. Not to mention in some models battery packs are now structural and cannot be retrofitted for swapping.
But I think battery swap can have its uses. Bus and truck companies could use battery swap in their fleet with no issues, since themselves will control battery quality.

Soon the VGA will become the de facto motherboard, beside the meme.
Think of a motherboard but with an embedded VGA on it, with all the heat sinks, fans, etc. Or a VGA with a motherboard embedded on it.

Trains are already pretty efficient and green, per ton transported. Looks like CA is barking up the wrong tree.

Maybe not even so sophisticated. A photo of the previous owner. Or a digital made of gelatin. Or a zap from a taser. Or a friggin magnet.
Did you ever watch LockpickingLawyer videos? Dude opens smart locks using magnets. Open gun safes with a fork or a piece of juice bottle.
I'm really waiting for the video where he gets to mess with one of these smart guns. He'd probably find a way to make the gun fire using a thin slice of a soda can, or something like that.

that is.

Yeah... that was the boomer in me talking. I put a little more thought on it and reached the same conclusion of yours.
What's the problem if they want to use flip-phones? Whatever floats their boat on helping self-control, give them a break.

And we berate them for their lack of self-control, but if you thing about it, were we at their age mature enough to have self-control to use our gadgets in a healthy way? Weren't (or aren't) we playing videogames all night long?
Actually, resorting to a flip phone to stay away of (anti)social media is just a way they found of doing a good thing for themselves. This shows they are being surprisingly self-aware of their tech addiction and if this method works for them, what's the problem?
It's even kinda nice of them rediscover our once beloved gadgets and actually love them as much as we did at the time, I for one feel honored. Let them be.

No, and maybe that's the point. Someone having to resort to a method used by alcoholics to stay away of the object of addiction, it says a lot about their lack of self-control.

Do you want zombies? Because that's how you get zombies.

Or people would just buy an Android phone.

iOS ecosystem is a walled garden. You trade freedom for convenience. Trying to do "freedom stuff" on an Apple phone just make no sense.

I was meant to be generic, not specific to databases.

BUT, as said by a AC comment below, PostgreSQL is the answer. I'd say it's the obvious choice nowadays in matter of relational databases. It's free, it's fast, it's robust, it's powerful. It has a giant community support. Why in the heavens someone today would pay to be locked in the Oracle's leash?

The only "vendor lock-in" in PostgreSQL is just the way it works, like the functions it supports, and not a stringent and punitive contract. You can run it the way you want it, no legal issues.

In my job, we use it in a handful of high-performance applications. Not meant to do any slashvertisement here, but we even use AWS Aurora (it's based on PostgreSQL, and has all it's benefits) and AFAIK no harsh vendor lock-in, we can migrate our data back to our PostgreSQL servers if we will. So far we are pretty happy with it.

Aquamen.