Going to a country ruled by a totalitarian government, country that is currently at war that does not go as well as planned (I really do not think the plan was for the war to last this long), a country where the government says that it hates the West.

Yeah, if you are from the West and go there, it really has to be extremely important to risk your freedom and life. Or you are just stupid.

Similar to people who go to North Korea and do something other than strictly following the instructions of the guide.

"Long distance trips with a EV are certainly possible, they only require a bit more planning and enforced breaks."
So, it is a worse option.
I can also say that long trips with a really old car (Ford Model T or similar), or a car that is prone to breaking every 200km, but is easily fixed, are also possible and also only require more planning and enforced breaks. It does not make such a car a better option than a more modern car that can go for a long distance with only short stops for fuel.

New EVs may be similar price (I don't really know as I have no desire to buy a new car, EV or not), but new cars in general are expensive. If someone can afford one and he does not drive a lot (his job is not far away, he does not work as a taxi driver etc), then he usually can afford the fuel as well.
If someone cares about fuel price a lot, he likely cannot buy a new car and has to buy a 10-15 year old one.

Probably a lot, since a lot of people visit Poland as the prices are lower there, especially the people living close to the border. For me it's about 120km, so driving there for groceries is a bit far (unless I buy a lot).

People want to have the option of driving long distances. Currently, while an EV would be cheaper to drive, it is expensive to buy, so likely a lot of people who can buy one (or any new car for that matter) are not concerned as much about fuel costs.

It's like when I am getting insurance for my car - do I want to only drive in my country or do I want to get insurance that is valid in the rest of the EU for a few Euros more? I have gone to another country four times total, only twice in my car and yet I still get the EU insurance so that if I want to I can drive to another country without first getting a different insurance etc. And yeah, when I did go to another country I drove about 500km per day, sometimes more, sometimes less. Stopping to fill up a gas tank is fast, not so much with a battery.

Apple is trying to find the boundaries. Sure, it could comply with the EU but where's the fun/profit in that? If the EU lets this slide, then it's great for Apple, if the EU makes Apple pay a few billion again, Apple will try something else, maybe a yellow exclamation mark. If it gets fined again, it will try marking "Apple" apps with some green mark and so on.

Yeah, last year. I installed Windows 3.1 on it and use it sometimes to play old games.
Bad caps are not difficult to replace, but I did not need to do it on that particular PC.

I also have a motherboard with a 286 (last tried to use it a few years ago), but do not have a suitable case for it.

I get that. It's cool that they kept the support this long. I have a PC with a Cyrix MediaGX CPU, which is newer than a 486 and still the newest I can run on it is Debian 8, anything newer and the setup does not even start (not enough RAM or the CPU does not support some feature). I have not tried to compile the kernel or anything, I'm just using Debian 8 on that system.
I have a PC with 486, but would not think to try to run the latest kernel on it.

They buy SSDs. I can also say this in reverse - sure SSDs are fast, but why should I spend more if I am not planning to transfer the data faster than 100mbps or maybe sometimes 1gbps?

It will be useful for archiving and other stuff that needs lot of space and does not require high speeds. Unless the price of an SSD of the same capacity drops below that of a HDD, there will be uses for hard drives.

I buy only enterprise-grade drives and they seem to work. To be fair, I use them in servers running 24/7 so I would rather just spend a bit more to get the better reliability. I do not particularly care about the manufacturers, so when I need to buy more drives, I just buy whatever is the cheapest that is enterprise-grade and not SMR. So far they all seem to work.

Not all data needs to be read/written that fast though. Sometimes the data slowly accumulates and just mostly sits there, for example in an email server or a backup server.
Yeah, rebuilding the array would take a long time, but most of the time the transfer rate would be good enough.

Reducing energy costs should come from using cheaper fuels to produce the energy, reducing taxes on fuel, eliminating carbon tax and other crap that makes energy expensive.

Yeah, I'm sure people could survive on just $999M. They wouldn't even need to work anymore. They could stop their companies and lay everyone off.
Or, you know, they could just move to a different country and take their businesses there. I'm sure the workers in the US will be able to build their own paradise with no stinky capitalists.

He still has friends in high places and abilities. I don't think it would take him too long to go back to at least a billion.
Especially since others would likely be similarly "reduced" and looking for ways to rebuild what they lost in another country. I am also sure that multiple countries would want them and at least offer tax breaks if not even subsidies.

I do not live in the US, so I would not be voting there anyway, but if something like that happened in my country, those politicians would be on a permanent blacklist for me. I mean, sure, today they took money from some rich people, but if that continues, I may end up on top of that list even without having a million EUR.
the Communists in the USSR sent lots of people to Siberia, not just super-rich factory owners.