The European Commission is the EU's civil service. Petitioning it was always a long shot, because for them to act you have to convince them that there is a good case within existing EU rules. They aren't there to make new rules, they are there to enforce the existing ones.

They have effectively said that existing consumer protection rules don't extend far enough to force publishers to make offline patches and server code available, but in their opinion do offer some of the things being asked for already and so the petitioners should contact their state consumer rights body.

To get a change in the rules, it needs to go through the European Parliament and the elected MEPs. That's how democracy works. Elected officials make the rules, civil servants enforce them.

On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

FF on Android doesn't crash for me. It used to, but it's come a long way. The main issue at the moment is the crappy UI for tab handling.

Obviously they didn't make this phone, it's rebadged. There are lots of flip phones you can buy direct from China if you want that form factor. Software wise, Android lets you uninstall or disable even built in apps, or install your own OS.

Like their FPGA based C64, you are paying for convenience and having a common platform with support. It's like how there are cheaper SBCs than the Raspberry Pi, but it's very well supported and understood by the community.

"This isn't hard to look up"
Doesn't look it up, instead asks Elon Musk's shitty Nazi AI.

To be fair, if they don't advertise it, it's probably because it's a part of the silicon that they won't discard a CPU for if it doesn't work. Same with ECC support. Maybe it works 99% of the time, but if you get one in the 1% that failed, it's not a warranty issue.

Motherboard manufacturers and RAM manufacturers are the same. ECC works with Ryzen, but it's not officially supported so if your particular combo doesn't work, too bad I'm afraid.

Wow, that sounds like a fairly old laptop. Certainly pre Ryzen.

Presumably you can boot a CD, to install an OS. Or at least a floppy.

I wasn't suggesting that a failed rocket couldn't cause a Kessler event, I was saying that nobody has rockets that can safely de-orbit themselves in the event of a catastrophic failure. Hopefully it happens at low enough altitude for that to happen naturally, but if propulsion is lost or it disintegrates higher up, it can't really be helped.

Not really to any extent more than in the US, for example. In some ways perhaps less so, e.g. there is no actual law requiring you to wear clothes and due to juries not convicting nudists it is a somewhat open question if you can walk down the road naked.

In this case the rocket failed on the way up, and there isn't much anyone can do about that.