I still have a case for MechWarrior and the Ghost Bear expansion, and all the Tex Murphy games.
They're not cool. They're taking up room in my fucking basement, and they can't be played without mucking about on a PC to make them work with current OSes.
I need to throw them away, honestly.
I'm perfectly happy playing a game and then not owning it anymore.
After all, that's exactly what going to any live event it like. You enjoy it, and it is gone forever. That's not some new thing.

No, NOAA has no apps.
There are a ton of apps using NOAA/NWS data. Almost every weather app uses NOAA data, but they're not in the app business, and DO NOT charge for apps. They're a tax-supported service of the US Government.

The entire point is to give the user an indication of the validity of the sender *before* opening.
If they're not loading the images before the user opens, it's not meeting the objective.
I don't disagree that it may be useful for tracking deliveries, and therefore have some negative privacy implications, but it shouldn't behave any differently on opening than any other images are handled by your email client. If you have remote load images disabled already, they're still disabled.

How does it track opens when it is being loaded while the email is in your inbox?
It could track deliveries, but not opens.

I'm running iOS 13.5, and I just asked Siri for the time in London.

She gave me the time in London, KY.

I'm in Indiana, about 170 miles from London, KY.

So, in summary:
1. It is still an issue (not fixed)
2. It is a thing.

After years of hearing "That person would end up OWNING that company after they sued them!" for whatever evil a corporation has done, I've yet to hear any heartwarming stories of victim ownership of a corporation.
Typically, they pay enough "fuck you" money to the victim that they walk away happy and it is less than a rounding error on the bottom line.

If you're using RFC 1918 space, you have to NAT everything.
It is quite common to have links between universities, say from CalTech to MIT. If you're using public IP addresses, devices can communicate directly without NAT.
Once you start NATing things, you've added a level of complexity that adds time and expense when you have a lot of people that need two-way communications.
The real answer is moving to IPv6.
Also important to note: some large companies have run out of RFC 1918 space. All of the IPs in 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 only add up to 17,891,322.
Let's assume everyone had a laptop, smart phone, smart watch, and streaming TV device. That means you can service just under 4.5 million people.
Stuffing everything behind NAT no longer works.

They don't.
Speaking from experience in dealing with networks like this, the IP addresses are not all used up by hosts, they're used up by subnetting.

When you're designing a network, there are good reasons to have logical segments divided up. For example, at MIT, I would imagine a single building with 150 computers, 200 wireless devices, 30 cameras, 150 phones, 10 servers and maybe 300 other "IoT" devices doesn't put all of these devices on a single /22, even though that would hold all of them.
They likely use a /21 or /20, and then put those 150 computers on a /24 that can handle growth, same with the phones. This way security and QoS is easier.
If you build the network only big enough to handle a certain load, then you have to spend a TON of time, money, and downtime to redo it.
The common solution is to over-build the subnets so you don't have to touch them again, but that means a lot of wasted addresses.

GE sold their 3.0.0.0/8 block to Amazon. That had to be worth a ton of cash.
MIT sold a /9 to Amazon as well.
https://gist.github.com/simons...

While I share your concern, so many people are now full-time indoor dwellers that keep their windows shut year-round.
My neighbors *never* open their windows. They switch directly from heat to air conditioning and back to heat.

As long as the noise isn't loud enough to be heard inside over the sound of the electronic devices people are using indoors, I think there won't be much pushback.

You correctly qualified "earthbound".

SpaceX is selling a problem and selling a solution. With much lower costs to orbit, space-based astronomy will become far more practical.

I do agree that it is unfortunate that earthbound radio (and optical) astronomy will suffer, as it will always be the lowest cost and lowest barrier to entry, but I think the ability to have quality Internet all over the globe is worth it.

If you're in the scenario of a pandemic and borders are closed, the only thing you're using ground troops for is evacuating all of the border towns, and implementing a no-man's-land in the larger border cities like Detroit or El Paso. Perhaps 5 miles from the border.

The Air Force and Navy will be doing the border security at that point, and simply killing anything between the actual border and the quarantine border.

The people of Puerto Rico would like to talk to you.

You're missing the point.
It isn't about thermal energy from the sun, it is measuring what happens when we have a major solar electromagnetic storm.
The last time we had one was over 100 years ago (lookup the Carrington Event), and we didn't use computers back then.
If it knocks out all power to the Western Hemisphere, millions will die.
Even after we rebuild the supersized transformers that take months to build, on the other side of the world that wasn't hit, just restarting the power plants is a major undertaking. Coal, nuclear, and natural gas plants need electricity to power up. We have to divert hydro, wind, and solar power just to get the big plants going again, and carefully manage the grids until all of the plants are running again.
In the meantime, we can't even pump water.
Millions will die.

I have. The conclusion to things like "all power in the region is out for days/weeks" or "no running water for days/weeks" has been "We're fucked. Even if we had backup power and water, there is no way we can shelter our employees here, so they're either going to move away until the crisis is over, or die."