I'm certainly old enough to have gotten into the "good enough" trap... and mostly gotten over my "ooh, shiny" phase.
But I think you may be wrong for an altogether unexpected reason: WiFi7 has MAPC [Multiple Access Point Coordination] and a sub-tech c-SR [coordinated Spatial Reuse]. If this is what it sounds like it is, and even if it isn't yet it may become it: beam-steering.
This requires more bandwidth on the backhaul than the actual used data at the wireless client, b/c the same data is transmitted by multiple APs [and potentially as uncompressed RF].
Even *better* if it then makes it possible to pierce a transmission through a noisy background like when you have all your neighbors stomping on the available channels.
It's already a thing for 5GNR, and it could be coming in less than a decade to home WiFi, at least if we can convince enough of the hoi-polloi that wired backhaul matters. Plus, in various "home automation" groups, it is already being recommended to add conduit to rooms, allowing additional APs to be added later.

Note, WiFi7 has these features in the spec, but they're all "optional"; WiFi8 is concentrating on "Ultra High Reliability" of which MAPC is a part, so they're making all those WiFi7 optional features mandatory. And the research on how to make this work in ways that matter is the subject of various papers on arxiv.org, specifically 2303.10442v3 and 2305.04846, among likely many others.

Who needs propaganda? Just observe some sheriff or city PDs around end of the quarter, for how many more cops are out patrolling for speeders. Ticket quotas are a thing.

The items specifically called out in TFS are WiFi network lists and notification data. Things currently handled in the OS, and at least the notification data is very sensitive. The WiFi data is probably too.
It's clearly not possible to eliminate notifications, at least w/o making iOS inferior vs Android's functionality.

Consider the potential ramifications of there being a BonziBuddy re-skin for the home screen that intercepts all notifications and adds bouncing bananas... and also feeds back the notification data to somewhere.

The problem you're presenting [in your 2nd paragraph] is for symmetric ciphers. But that's not the problem presented by TFA. There the question is to take a public key and produce the private key. There the math is well-defined for validation.

Additionally, albeit this is well beyond my expertise, re a plausible but incorrect decryption [of a symmetric cipher], you're dealing with a few issues.

a) you're basically asking for the equivalent of the intersection of multiple checksum/hash functions. Possible, but odd. Then again, QC is odd.
b) the number of collisions is still finite when you have a finitely sized input. The shorter the input, the fewer possible collisions there are, to the point where your posited "valid sentence" is too short to be probable. Most of the forced collisions I've read about were involving appending gibberish to the input. But again... I'm not a cryptogeek & I haven't read all the types of hash breaks, and this may also break the analogy for hash vs cipher.

re state of the rat & RSA2048... yeah, it's still state of the rat. At least 18 months ago, the last time I was directly involved therein, Google, Fastly & CloudFlare only allowed 2048 bit RSA keys on their CDNs/LBs [also 256bit EC].
They didn't care what you had on your origins [and for that, keepalive/pipelining is a thing], but for computation reasons they don't allow big RSA keys on their outward facing systems [and ditto Google's internal LBs].

I do agree that 1M qbits is believed currently impossible [who knows what's hiding in classified labs], but in any case RSA2048 is the standard and many big names have roundly rejected RSA3072 and RSA4096.

If they wrote people, that suggests they succeeded in making artificial sapience. But they should also be charged with slavery.

Barring political considerations, they can't sell the fabs. Why? They'd have to give up the CHIPS funding. Not just "give up" but likely "pay back".

a) increased efficiency doesn't change capacity factor [maybe if they added cooling, but that increases expense and thus decreases profit]. It just increases nameplate capacity.
a.1) as noted by the other guy, tracking is a thing, but that increases capex costs and maintenance. That is a possible increase in capacity factor. It also doesn't change efficiency.
a.2) does agrivoltaics help with cooling?
a.3) arguably cooling changes efficiency [bringing efficiency closer to STC from NOCT], but that's not an improvement in the cells, but rather the installation methods.
a.3.1) the panels on my house, STC/nameplate is 380W/panel. NOCT is 285W/panel. STC only happens during spring or early morning on cooler days. Total panels: 60, total nameplate 22.8. But my inverters limit to 20kW. Typical summer peak is ~16kW.

b) the states/locations where it was installed to begin with would be where it was most optimal [because that's where the investments make the most sense], e.g. lower latitudes and less clouds. Later installs would be in states that are less optimal [best case, no worse].

c) more installs doesn't change capacity factor.

Just went to NetZero's website.
Their "HiSpeed Accelerated Dial-Up" says it is "$29.95* a month" or [and this isn't linked directly from their showAllServices.do page] their DSL is "as low as $39.95* a month".

Missouri v IBM
https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-ge...

Dill v IBM
https://aflegal.org/litigation...

Beard v IBM
https://www.thesandersfirmpc.c...

I did read it, yes you said "erection", I intentionally read it as "flied lice". Back 24 years ago, my then girlfriend's father worked for Pfizer. They caught flack for selling Constitutional Viagra to Florida, causing the longest ever election...

I think we've done enough R&D in prolonging elections as it is. The AP still hasn't declared California's District 13 [no relation to the dystopic movie District9 or Panem] as of 7:27AM PST Dec2, nearly a month after the election.

TuringPi2 + RK1 ?
TuringPi2 is just a carrier board.
RK1 is RK3588, so 4 A55 "efficiency" cores, 4 A76 "performance" cores. The Pi5 has the same, roughly, performance cores. Different clock rates no doubt.
The TuringPi2 holds 4 of them, and takes a standard ATX PSU or 12V+ATX adapter
a vendor PSU + carrier board + ITX case + 4xRK1-16GB RAM + shipping = ~1300USD

Possibilities also exist for the OdroidM2. Mostly the same CPU, albeit a bit stripped of IO, and a package that may be harder to cool [the RK3588 is metal, the RK3588S2 is plastic]. PSU is 12V, which in my experience is more stable than boards with high power draw on 5V. A bit too new probably to have non-vendor-supplied kernels.

Or maybe the NanoPC-T6. same RK3588 [no trailing letters or numbers]. This one has Armbian support. Also 12V PSU. 802.3bz 2.5GbE ethernet, if that's of value to you.

I must admit to owning none of the above, albeit I've had good luck with the NanoPC-T4 & OdroidM1, and had horrible luck with the NanoPiM4v2 [like the NanoPC, but 5V USB power and crashing a lot with my WD Blue SSD + fan].
I also have a Radxa Rock5B [with the RK3588], but I'm not stressing it at all, just using it for screen sessions + elinks + random other SSH sessions.

I lived on the border of Sunnyvale CA for ~5 years, near SR85/82/237. It was walkable... if all ou wanted was to go grocery shopping. That part was great.
It wasn't so walkable if you wanted to get to work. even with traffic as bad as it was, it took well under half the time to take a car vs take a bus [and/or the light rail, depending where you're going]. My flatmate at the time worked about 3 years of that time in Alviso, about a year at Google [hence the location we lived in], and about a year in Fremont. Fremont really wasn't an option to take the bus from where we lived. Alviso had a problem of being too small to actually have a bus stop at all. The only bus stop was about a half mile out of town at the Amtrak station.
Btw, at the time, Alviso was a very walkable city... and yes, an actual city, but a really tiny one.
If it matters, while living there, I worked in mid-south Santa Clara [nVidia campus now, I believe], then north Santa Clara [near Great America], then north Sunnyvale.
I appear to have a different objective than you. But I have actually lived a few places too. Both in and out of "cities". So to say I'm not being objective merely b/c I disagree with you?

Also, your definition of "city" is definitely an odd one. Tell that definition to Los Angeles [where thankfully I've never lived].

So first... "over the hill and through the woods" implies that either Grandma isn't in the city, even if the family is... or that she's in a different town. Some distance away.
That was my experience... albeit moreso for my mom's side. Different counties even. A few counties away.
There's also something about increased mobility in the US over the last 20 years. Families moving further away from each other, getting married to ppl who grew up further away.

Then there's your "15% outside of cities" figure. That needs some definitions. Because I think you're thinking medium & large cities, but the statistic includes small cities. My maternal great grandmother, 30 years ago, was in Grant MI. Last census 950 peeps. But legally a city.

Further, your q about 10k being worth it for 3x/year. Of course not. But I think you're forgetting that availability will likely cause people to use it. Some local [fwiw, nowhere near Grant MI] school districts are now saying they're cutting busing or rotating bus routes [they can't get enough drivers], so parents have to arrange their own transportation. Which probably wouldn't be an issue in NYC or Sunnyvale CA, but how many of the 85% live in BIG cities? half?

You want to change the world. I, with many others, just want to live in it. So I look at the world the way it is, burdened by what has been and what is.