> unnecessary backwards compatibility.

Unnecessary?
https://www.skoda-auto.com/con...

Do not underestimate the amount of devices still relying on 2G/3G, not every industry has a turnaround of 5 years.

Nobody is immune, survival is about planning, and a bit of luck :
In 2017 Maersk almost got destroyed: notPetya wiped their systems, including domain controllers. Luckily a power outage in ghana kicked the local DC offline during the attack, and thus the sole remaining copy was perserved. Talk about luck.

https://www.wired.com/story/no...

They are being given an offer they cannot refuse of a new and exciting opportunity to go up and forward in their professional lives.

I only use bluray for movies, got a PS5 for that.

> old hardware just got replaced, all without drives

I felt that coming...
Years back a friend's laptop died, I scavenged the DVD drive. I bought an enclosure for it and since then it's been serving as an external drive. Now it's the only drive I have. And man am I happy to have it, since I once again buy music CDs, to be ripped and added to player library.

I suggest you watch Louis Rossmann's documenting of how raising the issue before his council went. I don't remember the details, but the council kept changing the meeting topics at the last minute (only the flock related ones), and surprisingly the flock representatives were aware of it. Then the discussion was moved into non-public parts of meetings.

The feeling with this is that you can't win by just raising the issue with the council, you also need to play dirty.
Destroying the cameras might be too dirty, but that depends on the current state of society...

> If I exercise, first I'm spending my time on something I dislike

Doesn't need to be exercise: could be woodworking, gardening, car fixing.

My personal hope is to die healthy. I don't care as much about the when.

They redid the exercise in 2022, adjusted with newest knowledge. The forecast got considerably hotter. Still got beat yesterday.
https://x.com/TF1Info/status/1...

That 2014 forecast had already been beat in 2022.

#fasterthanexpected

> While the new cars have far more mandatory cameras to help drivers spot obstacles

Just to expand on your point:
cameras break, and don't get fixed immediately. I know multiple cars that have non-functional parking sensors because of fender-benders.
Having reduced visibility by default is bad design.

Read up on termination shock related to aerosols. Also acid rain wasn't without downsides.

That's just the drivers in the US not knowing how to use highways. You apparently included.
There's an overtaking lane, and a cruise lane. No fast lane.

That is my entire fucking point: from 4 cars behind you have no way of knowing whether it's necessary or not.

> what's important to you is to make it about the messenger and not the topic.

Because the so called argument with merit started off with the slow driver being an arsehole.

When driving in Ireland, the speed limit signs felt more like a dare than maximum allowed speed. I was always driving at least 20 under.

Highways usually have a max of 130kph here. 80kph min.
The fun caveat with the minimum speed is that the vehicle must be technically able attain that speed, not maintain it for the duration of its drive on the highway.

> It's "drivers cannot drive so slowly that they block or impede the normal flow of traffic"

Funny how you left out the other half :

"except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or compliance with the law.""