More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they'll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.
Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.
Even with the lithium mining, an EV will reach "pollution parity" with a comparable sized ICE vehicle anywhere from 6 months to 5 years on the road, largely depending on what is powering the electrical grid (coal fired electricity being the 5 year), with the average being 1-2 years. That means that an EV from 2023 on average has caused less total pollution than an ICE vehicle of the same age.
On top of that, there has been significant progress made in recycling these batteries so that less lithium needs to be mined, as well as using other metals such as sodium, both sodium ion and sodium iron batteries are commercially available.
Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model 'X (NA)' could have a different update schedule than 'X (EU)'.
Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it's the same software that's already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren't replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.
So yes, while it's possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.
From someone who does this for a living... vary your names and addresses. Less chance of collisions if your suite teardown fails to clean up properly. Depending on your needs, having a hard-coded unique name/address per test can be fine, or if you're using Python, there's a library called Faker that will generate ISO-valid test data. It's also a bit easier to see where a teardown failed if maybe an exception got swallowed.
PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.
possibly an attrition tactic? If they completely destroy the bridge, then Russia might just abandon it and transport stuff there via plane/boat instead. Damaging it just enough that it's cheaper to fix than to set up a new supply chain, over and over, could be more costly in the long run, and regularly divert construction resources. Not to mention the impact that constantly disabling the bridge could have on Russian civilians in the area - i.e. "how is Ukraine always damaging this bridge?"
Could also be psychological - having the bridge there and hitting it over and over and over sends a pretty clear message.
Doesn't need to be any design flaws, a few minutes with a welder and/or a truck load of concrete at the door once they're in there would render the whole billionaire problem "solved", Hotel California style.
My high school in the latter half of the 90's tried zero tolerance... briefly. Fighting got worse under the policy, cuz us kids figured if we're gonna catch a suspension, might as well earn it.
I've settled on soaps that don't aggravate my psoriasis and have an agreeable scent. They do happen to be "men" soaps, but absent another option or if I'm not at home, then I was with what's available.
The only exception is my beard wash/oil/balm. I bring that shit with me.
We have that in Ontario, and as a kid my cub/scout troop would go around town and ask people to give us their empties as a fundraiser. We'd return them and use the money to buy camping supplies and stuff.
Think of it this way: You need to get out of a bad living situation, and you have $1000 that you can allocate to travel. If there's public transit to an airport, you can easily take a flight to anywhere in the country, or even to another country, well within that budget. If you can get on a bus, you can make it at least a few states away. If you can get on a train, likely to any state on it's network.
If none of those are available, you have to buy a car or take taxis. Buying a car means buying gas and insurance, plus having a license, and the cost of registration. That $1000 might get you about as far as a full tank of gas will last, the license plate is traceable, and you have a much higher chance of getting hurt in an accident.
Now consider that situation, and you are a pregnant woman in Mississippi, which has some of the most restrictive laws banning abortion. You live in an abusive household and want to leave, as well as end the pregnancy. With access to a bus and plane, you can get to anywhere in the US to have your abortion, likely with money to spare. If you only have a car and one tank of gas, you're not going to make it to any state that would allow that abortion.
I couldn't find a plastic box, so I used an old white van, by then I forgot what we were trying to give away, so I just assumed it was free candy. Now the police want to talk to me. 0/10 do not recommend using a plastic box with "books" written on the side.
fresh prince made me think things were a lot better than they really were back then.
Fresh Prince had a lot of references to the fact that racism was alive and well in the 90s. Many of those episodes also focus around the theme that even though the Banks' were wealthy, it still didn't stop them from being discriminated against, and even caused discrimination from other black people.
This can be generalized to say that programming has become such a diverse profession that you will find experts in one area that know very little about others. There's simply too many things that are programmed in too many ways for anyone to know it all anymore. Hell, that was the case in the 70's and 80's too.
More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they'll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.
Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.