While they are at it restore the standard ways of creating a local user at initial setup. Almost no one wants to be forced into creating a MS account just to use there computer.

We use Privacy, one card per vendor that is locked to them on first use plus flexable spend limits and quick pausing/closing of cards.

Great! I really need another year of worthless credit monitoring.

And herein is the problem. None of the sites mentioned run off of a single server, they run in server farms typically called CDNs (Content Data Networks). So you can whitelist slashdot but without also whitelisting each of its CDNs slashload won't load. To make matters even worse most CDNs are dynamic meaning your traffic may hit CDN01 to start with and the next request it hits CDN02 and so on. Oh by the way, the same CDNs hosting slashdot could also be hosting the trackers from what ever site so if you do decide to whitelist a particular CDN you've also white listed the tracker. This is just scratching the surface of how complicated the underlying infrastructure is.

Oneplus has consistently put out devices that are a great value but preform really well. They do have some pretty aggressive power mgmt but its easy enough to disable it per app. I'm currently on a 12r that has been fantastic.

It takes skill to write a scientific paper that is easy to understand yet maintain the meaning of the topic being presented. Its not impossible but exceeding difficult the more esoteric the topic is. That being said, it seems more and more published papers seem to be short on actual information and instead are filled with enough stuff to make it appear to be worthwhile.

For those looking for a good messenger not owned by one of the big 5, take a look at Signal. Its Open source and fully end to end encrypted including the metadata. https://signal.org/

This sounds like there is a data leak in ATT systems ( or contractor ) handing the allocation and shipping of these. Pubic tracking info is typically generic enough to prevent knowing what is in a package.

A lot of your thoughts were the same as mine. We are considering a plugin hybrid to make up for the current shortfalls, lack of charging infrastructure, range anxiety and you introduce a new concept I hadn't thought of endurance. In an ICE vehicle we still have to consider range but with a full EV range now gets coupled with endurance. The more miles put on the vehicle causes the max to decrease. I agree that today's battery tech seems constrained, but look 5 - 10 years in the past and the developments and improvements have been staggering. Looking at what is "in the lab" there are some more major leaps to be had.