Don’t they hate the government meddling in their affairs?

Yes. They love it when it meddles in other people's affairs though. Demand it in fact.

More like going from Slashdot post to Java. Truthy sounding but incorrect proofs that suck up people's time aren't just an AI thing. Mathematicians have been arguing for 15 years whether the ABC conjecture has been proven or not.

Internet says yes:

https://www.msmosquito.org/mos...

That's fine, and you now have a button to choose.

it is my device, i decide what do do.

This is pretty silly though. There are a whole bunch of decisions in any non-trivial bit of electronics that you have nothing to do with. Would you like the processor not to thermal throttle either? Perhaps you'd like to choose whether the power supplies switch from PWM to PFM mode?

It's not even Adafruit's side of the story. They said they got a nasty lawyer letter, that's it. Everything else is speculation.

The bit about a server misconfiguration making some information public that shouldn't have been might hint that the truth is more interesting.

I don't think there's anything in an Apple laptop to make it non-compliant. You need a torx screwdriver, and a spudger is kind of handy. If you want your speakers to not rattle afterward you also want a bit of double sided tape.

Pretty much every phone is already mostly compliant, with the exception of little things like Apple's nice heat release glue.

Earbuds are generally not compliant because they're ultrasonically welded shut. They're really where improvements need to be made, but of course they're also the place where improvements are the hardest.

Apple in fact did the opposite of what the OP claims. They reduced power draw on old batteries to extend the useful life of the device.

It looks like it's just some Phillips screws to get it open and a standard lithium polymer battery with a JST connector. I found a video of a guy changing out the battery using his Swiss army knife. That's very user replaceable by the EU standard.

What were you expecting? Being any kind of waterproof requires a sealed device and replaceable parts directly conflict with that.

"Replaceable" in this context seems to basically mean it isn't glued in. You can certainly make waterproof devices with replaceable batteries. Watchmakers have been doing it for a century. Actually, a century this year. If you don't have a certified professional do the replacement then it's not certified waterproof anymore though. And if you do it yourself there's a good chance it actually isn't.

(someone recheck my math)

Okay. You're off by only three or four orders of magnitude. Not bad considering the roundabout tour through weird units.

There are about 28 million square feet in a square mile, not 5280.

The actual size of a modern acre doesn't seem to be very well defined, even in the US, but the traditional definition should be close enough: an acre is one chain by one furlong, which is 10 square chains, or 1/640th of a square mile. 2400 of those is 3.75 square miles.

Meanwhile, X.AI has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 100 million hyperfecund pesticide-resistant male mosquitoes in California and New York over two years to own the libs.

Yes, it's funny. There are different kinds of x-rays though. Even the US isn't crazy enough to make everyone go through a hard x-ray scanner, and they've even eliminated the soft backscatter ones that only look through clothing.

As someone else described it (can't remember who), Google discovered a hose out of which money pours. Ever since they've been looking for another one.

Biotech is often seen as the next revolution after computing. Google started a life sciences research division around 2010. They bought a company that makes spoons for Parkinson's patients and another that makes clinical trial management software, and have dabbled in lots of stuff from robotic surgery, and climate change resistant crop modification, to contact lenses and health insurance.

Education does vary regionally.