Volume is definitely an issue. I went from a Pixel 4a to a 9a and now I can't get the volume loud enough on Bluetooth headphones. When walking, traffic noise is enough to overwhelm my headphones so that I can't hear a podcast or phone call. I have read that this is a deliberate choice to stop people damaging their hearing, but I don't think it is going to be loud enough for use on a plane.

It's so bad that there are apps to increase volume:
https://play.google.com/store/...

The reason may be even more stupid

As in, the justification for the lower speed limit, enforced by the average speed cameras, is bullshit.

The cameras are there to drive traffic onto the M6 Toll, not for safety.

Some of these are bullshit. For example, the A446 sprouted an average speed check after the M6 Toll opened with a stretch parallel to the A446.

You have to stop people swapping lanes, because that has a dramatic effect on highway capacity. Thus, slowing down the traffic in all lanes to a value that is slower than most drivers would normally go at keeps all the lanes identical, reducing the motivation to swap lanes.

That book must have sent waves of panic in the secret parts of the UK government. During WWII, a highly secret site built early computers to break the German Lorentz cipher. The existence of these was kept secret until the mid '70s.

That someone would write a book about a fictional computer called "Colossus" would have lots of people wondering if the name was a coincidence, of if there had been a leak.

That something else does not exist and will never exist, because the big Internet companies won't let it exist. SMTP email exists and can be used outside the control of the big companies.

Protocols like Jabber would suffer from the same issues that you claim email has if it were adopted as a replacement for SMTP. .

What you are really proposing is, in effect, that instead of email, people should just use the plethora of proprietary messaging services.

A quick win for Ukraine would not have weakened Russia the way the current war has.

What about Micron?

It's just like the gold rush. The profits were made by those selling equipment and supplies, not those panning for gold.

CIA is supposed to deal with external threats. Is this rule rigidly adhered to? Given what we have seen from the Wyden Siren, I seriously doubt that the CIA is holding to this rule.

Google makes money by selling adverts and information. It's not actually in Google's interests to allow random websites to mine their customers' data.

The referenced Washington Post article is based on US government statistics, and if you believe those statistics, I have a bridge to sell you. The

Civil servants have been fired for delivering "bad" numbers. You think the remaining staffers are going to look for things that might make the numbers look bad?

One more thing this administration has corrupted: economic statistics.

Google already charges for Gmail, if you go over your storage quota.

My primary account has 17GB of free storage.

And thanks to extensive use of a Pixel 4a, I have over 100GB of photos stored in this account.

I personally went from dial-up to cable modem. No DSL or ISDN in between.