Only because your jurisdiction has crap privacy laws. Vizeo is a US brand that doesn't sell into Europe, because if they did this would be a massive GDPR violation and they would be looking at a hefty fine.

People have reported that simply removing the WiFi modem from LG sets has no ill effects.

Google Calendar and Outlook both seem to handle getting things like meeting requests in different timezones. They adjust to UTC when displaying on my machine, or JST when I'm travelling.

And if Trump hadn't previously withdrawn from an agreement that would have limited Iran's nuclear program, the war would probably not have happened either.

I have. With additional complexities, namely moving airplanes. You are clearly a clueless idiot full of yourself. Not everything that people like you find "very hard" actually is very hard. It just takes somebody with an actual clue (you do not qualify) to do it.

If you see that as a mistake, you are a moron and ignoring reality.

Reality is this: Many of the latest "LLM discovered" security bugs would have been found with entirely non-AI conventional tools. These tools were not used. And, incidentally, non-LLM "AI" does basically play no role in software security.

Not to mention that cellular works because the cells are relatively small. With satellite cell service, each vehicle serves a much larger area, but the radio spectrum is the same and can only service a limited number of devices.

If an area becomes overloaded a terrestrial provider can just add more cell towers and reduce the cell size. If a large area covered by one satellite becomes overloaded, SpaceX is screwed.

Recently they have been introducing limits on their "unlimited" satellite internet product, because it is getting over-subscribed. So you are absolutely right, they have already hit their capacity limits in some areas and are trying to wring as much revenue out of them as possible by enshittifying the service now.

Windows does support UTC. I use it myself. You can set it in the GUI, or with Powershell:
Set-TimeZone -Id "UTC"

Because it's cheaper to suffer some cyber attacks than it is to employ people to go and manually adjust the temperature. The supermarkets save a lot of money with these automatic controls, because they pay the spot price for electricity. The prices are announced 24 hours in advance, so they drop the thermostat a degree or two when electricity is cheap, and then up a degree or two when it's expensive, to keep within the legal limits.

This loss is insured and will cost them far, far less than they save.

Car manufacturing is massively subsidized in the West too.

The Chinese are winning at manufacturing because they just do it better. Their supply chains are unrivalled, and that makes them extremely agile.

We can compete in Europe. Manufacturers here are now starting to offer cars that compete with Chinese models on price, which suggests that they were just ripping us off before.

I wouldn't buy a Liberty Phone because I'm European, but we do have Fairphone and I wouldn't buy one of those either because I need top tier cameras. I know a couple of people who have them and they are pretty good, except for the cameras which are mid tier at best.

The Model Y isn't a very good car anyway. No physical controls for most functions, including things like gear selection and headlights. The automatic systems don't work very well (they don't in most cars, e.g. the auto high beams tend to blind other people because they react too slowly, and Teslas are some of the worst for it). It's uncomfortable and you have to deal with frequent software updates and in-car monetization.

Right, we can learn about longer term habitation on other worlds in low gravity, and about collecting resources. The Moon has water and H3 and other stuff.

This time the effort of getting there will probably be more sustainable, because China is unlikely to give up even if the US somehow gets back there first, and because the whole industry is more sustainable now.

Yes to both questions about people, but both are engineers. I do not think technical illiteracy is getting larger. It was always very large, with brief periods where more people had basic knowledge about some specific tech as the alternative was simply no or no meaningful access to that technology.

It is bot historically and currently true that most people are incompetent and suck at risk management.

By far not "every possible", but enough to massively increase the pool of attackers with a newly discovered vulnerability. And since most software is missing redundant security (because most software does not qualify as a product of professional engineering) this is far too easy. All engineering disciplines had to eventually accept that the thing that protects you is redundancy, because mistakes cannot be brough down enough. IT is not there at all, but it will not have a choice now.