It was worth a go, but it was always a long shot. You could interpret the current rules as requiring some of this stuff, but it's a hard case to make. Either way, it was probably necessary to demonstrate that the current rules are inadequate.
But to your point, yeah, it sounds like this petition was doomed to fail because they brought it to the wrong body. If you want new laws, go to the people who write them, not the people who don't.
But too many of the reports precede the drone technology needed for what you describe, which may still not be there (they'd have to be too small to have the battery life to get in place). A similar effect could be achieved with clouds of chaff, perhaps created by exploding cannisters on parachutes dropped by a cargo plane - or radios, or your drones. But the Navy would have noticed if a Chinese plane was flying overhead before the sighting. Clouds of charged particles surging along magnetic fields seems likely to me. Throwing chunks of metal through magnetic fields creates a charge, and what's a plane but a chunk of metal flying through a magnetic field?
Maybe you should get a better computer instead of being poor.
Learn to read, troll.
Moto phones bought direct have no unremovable crapware.
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.
How many weeks are there in a light year?