The job I had when Covid hit, it took me 20-25 mins to get to and from work, call it 45-50 minutes a day. For that, I had a work environment far more convenient than the one at home, in particular when it came to breakfast and the midday meal, I could also wander across the corridor and talk to some of the specialists I frequently interfaced with.
I did work from home occasionally - especially when it was evenings or nights, or the roads were icy - but it was not my first choice.

I learned SAS In the early 80s and used it extensively. At the time, it was easily the best data analysis software available. About 15 years ago I wanted to get a few copies for my consulting team and we were looking at more than $50K / seat. Do you think Chinese users want to pay that sort of money to a US firm?

SAS sued a source compatible competitor (World Programming) out of existence some years back, to destroy competition and maintain their high prices. I had trialled the World Programming solution and it worked very nicely.

These days I use Python and a few other open-source tools. I suspect that Chinese data analysts are mostly doing the same.

The summary implies that remote deactivation is not that difficult, that does not appear to be the case.
I'm not really familiar with Tesla vehicles, do they have remote deactivation? Does any other car manufacturer have that?

I'm not familiar with the iPhone setup, but that is simply not realistic with Android systems. Android devices come with a number of apps providing core functionality, Samsung Android devices come with an additional set of apps providing alternatives to the ones Google supply (and some of them are actually better).
I find it annoying that I can't delete apps from either set, apps which I don't need, don't want, and only notice when Play Store updates them every few days. At least crap like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are not in that list - they were on a previous phone and all I could do was "Force Stop".

Think of Spain.
Their dictator - General Franco - adopted the same time zone as Germany in order to express his love of Adolf Hitler, that was effectively permanent summer time. I don't know if Germany had DST during WW2 (I think they did) but they did not reintroduce DST until around 1980, Spain followed suit.
Bottom line, Spain is effectively on Summer Time in winter, and two hours ahead in summer. The Spanish have adapted in that they do everything an hour later than the other countries in their time zone.
Franco died in 1975 but the country has remained on CET, Portugal uses the same time zone as the UK.

I'm not sure I agree there, these browsers are doing stoopid shit while Aardvark is just supposed to make sure they are doing that safely.
Should Aardvark be exerting that level of control over the actual functionality of the browser? (probably Yes). Do Aardvark's developers know that?

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Then dude goes stalking, suing and attempting to be insulting by calling people "liberal" (apparently he thinks MAGAts can't pick locks and wants to reduce his potential customer base by over half, or something, I dunno).

Behaviour inspired by Elon?

Why? It would have cut into his billable hours.
Proven Industries could claim his advice advanced his own interests rather than theirs, but they'd need another lawyer for that and it would probably be throwing good money after bad.

A few months ago all the apps I wanted could be found in their Play Store, and it was good.
Then Google banned an app called Öffi from the play store. For the second time.
The first time was a few years back, one of the sub-menus asked for donations if you had downloaded the app from the developer's website rather than Play Store. A few weeks later they accepted that they had messed up and reintroduced the app, something which is yet to happen this time - they have not even said why they removed it. I use public transport in Germany quite frequently - I don't have a car there - and Öffi is pretty much essential there.
Now I have (I think) 3 more apps from F-Droid.

the fact that large parts of the US that are geographically in the Central Time Zone are on Eastern Time

Moving to permanent Summer Time would fix that for those areas.

Blame the Great Western Railway.
I thought Saudi Arabia was on "sun time" until relatively recently, that would mean within the last 20 years.

Western Europe should be 2-3

Portugal and Ireland are an hour behind the main block of EU countries (CET), Spain should be as well but General Franco decreed that his country should be in the same timezone as his hero (Adolf Hitler) and they never changed it back after he died. I suppose France should also be in the same time zone as Portugal, Ireland and the UK but that probably has more to with wanting to have the same time as the rest of the original EU (called Common Market then) rather than a desire to have Adolf Hitler time.
Finland, the Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece are all an hour ahead of CET.

some countries are 1AM, some are 2AM, some are 3AM.

Are the 1AM ones Portugal and Ireland, the 2AM crew those on CET and the 3AM ones the next block? That would mean they would shift their clocks at the exact same time.

I was looking at a few of the entries in that list and did not notice any which had been updated after 2021.
Browsers change over time and that list is too static.

It works where I am as well, that AC should tell us where he is trying to follow that link, that would give us a clue who is blocking https://factcheck.afp.com/

No no, they were following another agenda: "Defund the police", and that way before George Floyd.
Of course the Daily Nail positions them as the party of Law and Order.