Agree with all your points.

It's possible I might have missed these, but they're also major considerations with COVID:

1. It causes scarring of tissue, especially heart tissue. That's why COVID sufferers often had severe blood clots in their bloodstream. Scarring of the heart increases risk of heart attacks, but there's obviously not much data on by how much, from COVID. Yet.

2. It causes brain damage in all who have been infected. Again, we have very little idea of how much, but from what I've read, there may be an increased risk of strokes in later life.

3. Viral load is known to cause fossil viruses in DNA to reactivate silenced portions. This can lead to cancer. Viral load has also been linked to multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, but it's possible COVID was the wrong sort of virus. These things can take decades to develop.

I would expect a drop in life expectancy, sometimes in the 2040-2050 timeframe, from life-shortening damage from COVID, but the probability depends on how much damage even mild sufferers sustained and what medicine can do to mitigate it by then. The first, as far as I know, has not been looked at nearly as much as long COVID has - which is fair. The second is obviously unknowable.

I'm hoping I'm being overly anxious, my worry is that I might not be anxious enough.

Or mandate prominent ratings displayed on products - similar to the energy ratings.

None of the cinemas around here have such high quality equipment. Maybe they do elsewhere in the world but then catching a flight to see a movie that's better than what i can see at home isn't really a sound economic proposition.

Exactly this... Nowadays everyone already has a portable device capable of reading up to date content anytime anyplace. Buying a paper magazine or newspaper from the few places that still sell them and then carrying it around is massively less convenient. The only people doing this are generally the elderly who dont know how to use the newer technology, and obviously those people become fewer every year.

No i have a smaller room so i sit closer, so i have no need for such a large screen.
Plus i can sit in exactly the ideal location for the sound system and screen, whereas most of the theatre audience are sitting outside of the optimal seats.

Also theatre experiences differ significantly. Some of them have much smaller screens, lousy sound systems, dirty, smelly, crowds of kids, uncomfortable seating etc. There isn't a decent one around here, i have to travel a significant distance for a decent theatre experience.

My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

Not really, both wechat and alipay have a tourist card option that you can top up with a foreign debit card. It has a 3% fee i believe but then you can pay for things the same way the locals do.

Modern end user devices are designed that way, as you simply cannot rely on a perimeter to protect portable devices that will be connected to all kinds of public wifi networks that you have absolutely no control over.

You can always add more wires, you can't invent new radio frequencies.

A company will be allocated a /48 or larger, and will allocate /64 blocks to VLANs themselves, so you do have a hierarchy.

It's the same in a lot of places - legacy traffic is through CGNAT unless you pay (sometimes a LOT) extra. If you want any kind of home server you have to do it over v6. Also makes it much easier if you have more than one device since you can access them directly rather than having to mess with non standard ports or proxies etc.

Vodafone are a mixed bag - depends what country you're in. They have v6 in india, portugal, germany etc while in some other countries they don't.

Only if you're relying on perimeter security rather than a zero trust model.

With a perimeter model the printer could be the access vector that gets you behind the perimeter.

Unless you want to physically go to the printer and plug in a cable, you'll probably network it, not that it's a huge problem really because you have to go to it to collect the paper anyway.

Creating an isolated airgapped network for the printer means you have to disconnect from your existing network first.

Putting the printer into its own isolated VLAN with limited access from wherever your user devices are works, but is more complex to set up.

If you're operating a perimeter based security model where you rely on perimeter security rather than each individual host then any compromised device inside the perimeter can be a serious problem. A printer will have an embedded computer and there's nothing stopping an advanced attacker from loading new firmware containing additional functionality.

So the problem is users having default passwords. A default which is generated from the serial number is a really half assed approach and only slightly better than the old admin/admin.
Serial numbers are sequential/predictable, so you could easily brute force if you know the algorithm.

For something like a printer there is a much better approach:

1) Listen only on the IPv6 link-local address by default - so there's no way to access it without being on the same VLAN.
2) Disable remote functionality unless a physical control on the printer is set.
3) Keep the admin account locked by default - require the user to press a physical control on the printer to temporarily unlock the account. You could even have it generate and display a random password to the user - either on an inbuilt display which most of these printers have, or by printing it.
4) Force the password to be changed the first time the user logs in.
5) Tie management to the first device used to access the printer, again requiring a physical action to reset.

Cisco hasn't made legacy-only equipment for a long time. Pretty much everything they have supports v6, and anything that doesn't is long past EOL.