Nobody will want to watch video on an iPod.
Nobody will need native apps on an iPhone.
Nobody will need a stylus.
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Ditto for a VPN. Your bean-counting department may have a record of a rental agreement. If it's "metered", it may also have a count of hours logged-in, or MB transferred. That count re-set each month as the invoices are generated, and the logs re-set when the invoice is paid. If you're on an unmetered connection, they don't even ened to keep that - for billing purposes. Possibly the date/time of the first log-in/ log-out pair for the month, to demonstrate that you used their service during that month. What other need does the company have of keeping additional data?
Mullvad allows you to purchase time via cards sold through Amazon. Mullvad has no idea what real person presented the card (user ids are simply strings of digits with no identifying features related to your actual identity). The only direct link to you is your source IP address, but they have no reason to maintain that for billing purposes.
Whether or not an indirect association between the top-up card and you can be traced through Amazon would depend on whether Amazon kept any records of the serial number of the card, and whether Mullvad had any record associating that card with your user ID and your user ID with your IP address.
My front end iMac with 10.14 lasts about a month or so before a panic. Currently:
$ uptime
16:24 up 38 days, 5:01, 9 users, load averages: 4.79 7.10 6.14
As you can see from the load, that poor iMac is getting a workout. The OS gives up after a few weeks. I just got a new M2 Pro mini... not thrilled with Ventura, considering installing Monterey. But we'll see. Hopefully it stays up longer.
A front-end Linux server that hosts haproxy and other stuff:
$ uptime
21:24:45 up 528 days, 21:36, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.43, 0.33
Packages do get updated regularly, but clearly the kernel hasn't been updated in quite a while. That machine only reboots when I tell it to. I cannot recall when I last experienced a forced kernel panic/reboot other than power related on any Linux machine. I recall back In The Day our SunOS workstations with uptimes in multiple thousands of days.
My local grocery store promotes their house brand and CVS promotes their house brand. Both do so at the expense of competitors’ products. Is that now an antitrust violation??
Just because he's dead is no reason to lay off work.