It depends of the type of the dog. I agree having a pedigree dog it's expensive and normally owned by affluent people. Getting a mixed race puppy from friends is free. Vaccinations and vet are an expense, but apart that, especially small dogs are low maintenance.
I've seen people having small dogs like yorkshire terriers or the like even in social housing apartments with tiny balconies, an of course normally gutter punks and squatters are dog lovers.

Nah, they're going to standardise on a miniature fused BS 546 plug. USB-C to BS 546 miniature adapters will be sold.

Lead-Acid batteries are totally recycled to get back the raw materials and make other batteries. This could be done for automotive lithium batteries and even consumer grade ones to get back the raw materials. The biggest problem is that cobalt and nickel are recycled because they are expensive as raw materials, but for now the lithium isn't worth recycling.
Besides an automotive battery that has lost some capacity could be upcycled to be a static battery and used in an UPS and with solar panels, a bit like refurbishing tyres to stay on automotive consumables.

I remember, more than 20 years ago that we got some lectures about this newfangled thing, IPv6, got one of the authors of RFC 3053 talking about it. It was crystal clear that the only solution was to transition to IPv6.
At the university the network was born as DECNET one, because there were a lot of Vaxen, but they added TCP/IP networking because there was use for it. A transition to IPv6 should have been stared years ago: trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel isn't going to solve the problem, but only postponing it for a little timespan.

The failure of Commodore and following this the Amiga was mainly caused by terrible management and the fact that MOS technologies hadn't the resource to use more advance silicon technologies. So at a certain point VGA cards and IBM compatible PC become better and faster to play games.
Commodore built IBM compatible machines, putting the eggs on more than one basket, so the failure was of the Commodore management and not of the Amiga itself.
On the other hand Apple biult an Amiga killer the Apple IIgs, but because people preferred it to the Macintosh line, especially because was almost totally compatible with Apple II games and software and was easily expandable, was stopped.

Near me there's a skyscraper that was full of offices. Was buiult in the '60s and for the 60s standard it' very posh, and still now is because all th moder art sculptures in the hall, marble everywhere and so on. IT's being converted nov on in a de luxe condo, after getting rid of all the absestos that was used to insulate the wall.
Friend of mine lives in a flat that was designed to be an office complex but was partially converted on the fly to homes. The HOA is basically half house owners and half office renting landlord and now with half the office space empty there are a lot of problems with HVAC maintenance and other condo stuff. The people living there hope that the offie candlord will convert some unused office space to apartments to rent.

Star Trek Voyager fans?

Carmaker are planning to transition on full electric drivetrains already, because EU regulations on ICE. Developing Euro 7 compliant engines is more expensive compared to develop a full electric vehicle.
The base model of electric Fiat 500 is £ 23,835/â 24.800 and is so base that doesn't have a car radio. Petrol base model is £ 14,235/â 14.695 and LPG base model is â 15.740 (but has the car radio installed and isn't sold in UK).
On a small city car now the price to go full electric is big, and it's partially displaced by the lower taxes and fuel costs, but the price difference is big, ten times the difference with LPG version. But if one goes with more expensive versions and trims the motor ifferece goes less noticeable.

For the same reason that margarine or vegetable-based fats are used in industrial products instead of butter. Is going to be cheaper and more straightforward to use in an industrial food factory.

TYT MD-UV380 Anytone AT-D878UVII are, for instance a cheap Chinese-brand DMR handheld with AES-256 optional encryption.
Motorola, Kenwood and Hytera have more expensive DMR radios, with other encryption modes and are more rugged, but if the chaper radios are programmed with a suitable codeplug they could work ok.
Of course you need to have these radio preprogrammed before the action: An analog FM handheld, or ever some of these could be field programmed partially with the keyboard, but you lose the encryption keys.

I don't have an EV but I could see where charging station are, and in most places are in places with something else nearby like shops and malls, even countryside they are inside the towns, simply because they are normally near a transformer.

I've looked at the photos, and there was a Commodore SX64, that isn't that common. But in another photo there are some ZX Spectrum, together with some soviet-era clones that are quite rare. Not to mention the original Soviet computers like the Mikroska and the BK-01.
Also some beige box computer were actually red box computers and were made in East Germany or Czechoslovakia.

Basically they have resumed to '80s hard drive style setup, where the hard drive was dumb and a controller card did most of the work. I remember that the Apple // had an optional hard drive unit, but was impossible to swap the hard disc mechanic with a similar hard drive designed for IBM and compatible PC. And even on IBM and compatibles changing the hard drive meant low level formatting, with the need to insert drive types and bad sector maps.

What happen is also that car dealers, to sell new car are accepting old bangers ten or more years old. Because antipollution laws especially old diesels can't be driven in some areas or hours, so decent vans and cars haven't very much market, but they have more value if sold overseas.
These car are loaded on ships and sold in bulk, without plates, in third world countries and then could be resold againg without any control from the original owner or dealer.

A battery powered bus has the advantage compared to a trolleybus that doesn't need infrastructure on the road. But if one has to use a new infrastructure to recharge them, explain why putting the proven ad effective overhead wire solution it's a bad idea.
If you want some hi tech idea, you could use a computer vision system to reseat the trolley on the wires if the bus got detached from the line, instead of rely on the driver.