You meant, "remember that THERE are latency...."

"Their" is the possessive.

It's not because the system has been leveraged, it's that getting everyone to agree on new rules is harder than telling people what they will be.

Basically, you figured out the one upside of a dictatorship.

I'm sorry, but an EU nation complaining about someone else's privacy rules being too burdensome?

That's laughable.

It's also stupid. Two whole taps? God forbid.

My counterargument would be that the users have already granted the first consent to Apple during the setup process, so the same number of consent prompts occur for both 1st and 3rd party applications.

Well, those words don't make any sense in that order, but let's see if I can guess at your meaning. Are you concerned that the CCP will siphon data from the cars and weaponize it against the British people? You should be, they will.

Or were you concerned that the CCP would be able to steal Waymo's tech? Again, you should be, they will.

Or did you mean it the other way around, with Waymo being able to access Chinese self-driving know how? Because, no, that won't be happening. If it did, Waymo would see how much Baidu has already stolen from them.

I tried using a microwave but couldn't get it to drive me to work. Ended up getting fired.

And I know the UK likes having a domestic auto industry, so why they would allow predatorially priced Chinese cars anywhere near their borders is a mystery to me.

My best guess would be the failure of the Parliamentary system to recognize the fact that legislators make horrible executives. Which isn't really my best guess, it's just my snarkiest. My actual best guess is that either someone important is incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt. Potentially both.

I'm genuinely worried about the course the UK has embarked upon. To the point where I'm starting to wonder if the King should start acting like one.

I was unaware of Tata's ownership, but the company is still headquartered in the UK, still builds in the UK, and still provides thousands of jobs in the UK.

If it must be owned by a non-UK parent company, then one based in another democratic nation (and China foe) is almost as good.

I want the UK to do things that benefit the British people instead of the CCP. I see Waymo using Jaguars in the US, and don't understand why they would use a Chinese car in the UK. I don't understand why the UK would allow this. They could be making themselves stronger and more independent, but instead are making themselves weaker and more dependent upon an adversary.

And this is before considering the potential weaponization of the platform.

Okay Xi, good job not being able to read English.

And we'll fight this fight every year until Linux wins or dies!

I can't help but be reminded of who the original "Trust Buster" was.

Aww, geez. This is why I worry about you.
Ok, for one, Bill Gates is a major Democrat donor. He has considerable influence there, so don't assume the party is on your side.

But more importantly, this is not a political issue!

Please know that when I tell you this, it comes from a place of genuine affection and concern. You're letting politics dominate your life and it makes you unhappy. For the most part, politics is out of your control. You have a vote and the ability to complain, but your control over politics is sharply limited. But that shouldn't be a problem, because politics doesn't actually affect your daily life.

Stop. I can hear you objecting already, you're wrong. Politics does not affect your daily life, unless you let it (or you work in it). You're letting something outside of your control infest the things that are under your control. You don't have to do that. When you do it, it makes you unhappy. It is psychologically crippling. When you let something outside of your control dominate your life, you surrender to it the things you can control. The end result is that everything seems wrong all of the time and so you're always unhappy.
It doesn't have to be that way. Try completely disconnecting from politics for a while and focus on living your life instead. Nothing bad will happen because you stop watching. Good things will happen because you will be living your life instead of letting pundits, politicians, and other professional liars tell you how to feel.

It is possible to manage Linux with Group Policy (there are several approaches) and InTune. InTune looks like it only supports Ubuntu and RHEL, but those are the two you're most likely to see in an enterprise.

Shift+F10 isn't "nearly impossible" to press. They keep talking about removing oobe\bypassnro, but haven't. It'd be ok if they did, that just sets a registry value. And if you're doing that anyhow, also adding the values for automatic login isn't tricky. Or grab Autologon from sysinternals.

My personal desktop boots right to the logged in desktop, I only use the password for remote access.

I've never had to compile a kernel, but I do deploy DuoMFA auth proxies that have to be compiled from source. A minor hassle, though I always forget to install GCC first.