The problem is that maintaining Firefox is not just mantaining a browser but also a web engine. Mozilla seem to be the only ones left not using a browser engine derived somehow from WebKit. Even Microsoft ditched their own engine.
We might argue whether having different engines is worthwhile (I think so) but the fact is that that alone is surely costing them many millions of $ a year.

This doesn't reflect my personal experience: My current phone is 4 years old. It's still plenty fast for everything I do on it (just social media, browsing and some calls). The battery it's still in pretty good shape (I tend to keep it between 20 and 80%) but if the battery were to degrade or die I would still replace it before buying a new phone.
Granted, it's an Android and it's OS will eventually too far behind the curve to be my main device, but if it still works I'm sure I'll be able to find valid uses for it.
Modern midrange or better phones are so overpowered that, if they don't break, they can be useful for a very long time

Not sure. I think it's an in-house one.

LO is definitely *NOT* Java based. It used to use Java for something minor, IIRC it was for a database component. That has long since been eliminated and also, the vast majority of the code has always been C++. We can argue about its performance but in any case, any faults there are not due to Java

Well, obviously Google is profiting in some ways: More personal data gathering, more people using their services, I suppose schools pay some money to use Google's services. Lenovo can stop making them if they think it doesn't benefit them

Yup, I wouldn't like to see Mozilla harmed for losing this revenue stream. In recent versions of Firefox they show you sponsored links when you open a new tab. That annoys me way more than having Google as a default search engine.

Providing a default does not eliminate choice. Yes, it makes an initial choice on your behalf and you might not find that ideal but it doesn't prevent you from switching defaults.
I might agree on forcing that no default is set and having the user choose on the first use. But, if that were to be done, it should be done on every software where different providers exist for a particular service or function

At least Microsoft are being honest about it. That's just about the only good thing I can say about anything having to do with Win 11.

AFAIK a is not true but b is: Men's and women's average intelligence is about the same but there's many more outliers among men (both in the upper and lower portions). So there's more men among the extremelly intelligent people. That might explain part of it. c) Might also be true.

Valve has a pretty good track record regarding support for their hardware so I wouldn't be too worried about that. I have a Steam Link and it's been having firmware updates years after they last sold the last unit.

Yup. I have how many services has been walled behind a smartphone app. The ones I use ocasionally on my phone I just use the web interface. And I will avoid as much as possible those that can only be used through an app

Yup. I haven't been to many concerts lately but, more often than not, you have vinyls for sale along with the usual merchandise. CDs may or may not be there. I've seen vinyls being sold at a fast rate and I'm sure many of the people buying them don't even own a record player

The leak of a recent version of Far Cry might hurt the owners and the franchise somehow, the leak of the very first version I doubt. That code is ancient by videogame standards. I doubt there's anything in there that could help other game studios.

I mostly agree with this law but that's because I tend to keep my hardware until it breaks and hate forced obsolescence but you're right in that there're legitimate advantages to having non-removable batteries.
Hopefully the law will include some kind of provision for special cases (although right now I can't imagine a way that wouldn't allow a loophole to render the law useless).
I believe the prior laws forcing all phones to support standard charge ports (Micro USB in the begging, later USB-C) were a success and a net positive.

You're right in many things but Windows 10 doesn't have many of the problems of 11. It's stable and performant and has some features that have been removed from 11 (worse Start Menu, worse taskbar). But yeah, the only definitive solution is stop using it completely