Writing derogative statements is easy. Coming up with better theories is hard.

So you are taking the easy way out, the Ignoramus Ignorabimus.

Yes, the problem with 'end-to-end encrypted traffic' is one end is the device, and the other end is the manufacturer. The supposed owner gets no look at the data 'his' device is sending

If (say) the bus services a naval base, very sensitive information may be transmitted (stop location, duration, schedule, internal fuel level...)

If only a strange hybrid of John Deere and Tesla built buses, those would not have this problem, right?

Right?

I don't know why large buyers, in particular, allow end-to-end encrypted traffic between the vendor and the products the buyer ostensibly owns.

At the very least, the traffic should be open to inspection by the buyer, who should be able to selectively turn off or disable aspects of it.

You know what panels are made off? Silicon. You know which is the most prevalent metal in the Earth's crust? Also Silicon. Only Oxygen is more prevalent. A quarter of the Earth's crust is silicon, and you are wondering if we have enough of it in 30 years time?

Let's put it like this: I live in a village (less than 10,000 inhabitants) directly neighboring a small city (130,000 inhabitants). In my village, we have seven bus lines, one train stop with trains running every 30 mins, and a tramway line (and a second one, which is technically not on village territory, but from my place, it's a 5 min walk).

Just in the Alpine region, where for instance Homo neanderthalensis lived, we had

1. Biber Complex (2.6 mio to 1.9 mio years ago)
2. Danube glaciation (1.8 mio years ago)
3. Gunz complex (800 tsd to 600 tsd years ago)
4. Mindel glaciation (475 tsd to 370 tsd years ago)
5. Riss glaciation (300 tsd to 120 tsd years ago)
6. Würm glaciation (115 tsd to 10 tsd years ago)

Humanity has survived several ice ages already.

It is about the effect of ending benefits on car sales. Norway did this, and it had the reported effect.

If you want to throw a moral hissy fit anyway, be my guest.

In all countries, where tax credits ended or were reduced, we saw the same pattern: people wanting an EV will buy early to qualify for the expiring tax credit, creating a short boom, and then there will be a period, when only a few people will buy EVs, and then it will normalize again. We had the same in Norway 10 years ago, we had it in Germany two years ago, it will be a short break and then pick up again.

Reminds me of Grubhub settles with the FTC over adding restaurants without their consent.

My kettle (completely offline) boils within a minute. There is no need to have water sitting around for hours just to boil it remotely. This is about the time I need to prepare my cup and teapot anyway.

I have two offline clocks, which synchronize automatically with a local LF time signal bacon. Check if you can receive WWVB (or whatever your national equivalent is, in my case, it's DCF77)! A device to build into a standard wall clock is available for ~$15 in your friendly local online shop (ironic, I know).

My TV set is completely offline. I don't know if it is available for you, but it's a DYON Enter, and it works perfectly well. If I want smart features, I have to fire up the BlueRay player, which works, but I barely use it.

That's why the U.S. has about 10 times the number of lawyers per capita than any other country.

I tooked the area of the Flamanville Block 3, France nuclear plant as an example. It's a 1.6 GW plant covering an area of about 1.4 square kilometers. I was rounding it for better calculation.

Again, I was using the Flamanville nuclear plant as an example. Total construction cost was 13 billion Euros.

Please, tell me again, what you believe to know differently.