Live channels were added in Canada last year. There is only one live news network included with the base prime subscription, everything else gets added via bundles with additional monthly fees. I've personally have the 'StackTV' bundle which includes Global, Food Network Canada, HGTV Canada, W Network, History, Adult Swim, Slice, Showcase, National Geographic, Teletoon, Treehouse and YTV. There are something like 15 other addon options, some of which are more live channels, others are streaming services you can subscribe through prime so all of the content appears in one place. Big ones like Netflix and Disney+ are not on board, but things like Britbox and Hayu are. I honestly kind of wish everything was available through it so I didn't have to keep changing apps to search for a movie or show in all of the different ones until I find it.

As a bonus, you can enjoy an endless supply of new memory foam stink that comes off of the mattresses in the first couple of weeks you have them! Together with the hassle of constantly having to waste your life dealing with customer service, this sounds like a delightful way to live your life! As an additional hack... why not consider stubbing your toe on the corner of the bed each morning to give you a good jolt awake. Think of all the money you could save on coffee!

I don't think this is an issue of too much concern. As much a climate change is an issue for many different types of infrastructure, I think it is of far less concern for internet infrastructure, simply because of how quickly it is already being replaced due to obsolescence. A dike or dam may be in place for many decades, or even centuries and suffer from unforeseen problems due to climate change over the length its lifetime, but most digital infrastructure needs to be replaced by the two decade mark anyway, and so its replacements can easily account for the new realities of the world. Climate change simply doesn't act on a short enough timescale to be an existential threat to this portion of our infrastructure. There is certainly an environmental cost associated with all of this, especially from an e-waste pollution point of view, but because of the short life of the equipment, this industry is often quicker to react to changing environmental realities, and quicker to adopt newer, greener solutions from a carbon emission point of view as well.

Even if NAT itself had no security benefit (and it does have a little, even if weak), NAT coming into existance improved the average home network security by a LOT. In the earlier days of the internet, when address scarcity was a not yet a huge concern, ISPs provided multiple IP addresses to their customers. This allowed users with more than one machine on their home network to have nothing but a switch at the edge of their network (or more likely a hub, because they were cheaper at the time). Very, very few people had routers or dedicated hardware firewalls. The depletion of IP addresses, and the advent of NAT necessitated a level 3 device at the edge of most home networks. Having that device in place that was level 3 allowed device manufacturers to add firewall options as features to attract customers to their device, and since consumers now HAD to purchase the device anyway to make everything work, they happily picked options that also advertised extra security. Part of security is making it easy for the average consumer to make a good decision. Not everyone is a security concious individual that will buy, or find and install supplemental security software or hardware if they aren't nudged in that direction in some way.

Mmmm, my cell phone (android) has been able to read barcodes for quite some time now... why exactly do they feel that you need to have a special barcode for that?