That'd be just a little inconvenience for them. They could just plug in a mouse jiggler, or just touch the screen every other day (which can also be automated).

Make America the Greatest Polluter Again

It not, don't worry. Mr. Orange will redirect all the dangerous hurricanes with his mighty sharpie.

You'll be able to do it with any other tech brand except Apple. They're not for you since they not support your needs.

As it already happens with the barcode, the data can always be printed along the QRCode.

The clouds would be full of holes.

My mistake, it's 600+ MB/s.

All these things telecoms says about "data caps". It's all BS. All of it.
Internet is not water or food. It is not a limited resource. it's a service, an an mostly automated one. Thus it's in fact unlimited. It has been made to be like that.
What you US really need for a better internet is one thing only: competition.
I'll give the example of what happened here in Brazil. Yes, Brazil, South America, corruption, poverty, corruption, violence, corruption, yadda yadda yadda, but it seems for the stories here in /. that we have far better internet than a lot of US regions.
Well. In the 90's and 2000's we had an oligopoly, very similar to US nowadays. Like 4~5 big telecoms only. Only in big centers we had real choices, in most places, specially the countryside, we had only 1 option, 2 if we're lucky. All of them, absolutely shitty and expensive service.
But in the 2010's something changed. Gov't opened the then-incipient FTTH market.
That's a real miracle in matter of how usually things work over here.
Well, it jumpstarted the forthcoming of a lot of "Smol Guys Internet Co." companies, offering fast and reliable connections at affordable prices.
Now we have at least 4~5 little telecoms everywhere. In big cities there are like dozens. Offering unlimited 600+ Gb/s FTTH connections, sub-15ms latency, bundled with TV, streaming and other services, usually for less than R$ 100. Yup, that converts to less than US$ 20.
And no one even dare to talk about data caps. That's out of question. TBH there was a beggining of a discussion about that a few years ago, coming from, you can guess, the f__king big telcos. The backlash they got from everyone in unisson was a thing of beauty.
OTOH we're still hostage of big telcos oligopoly in mobile. Horrible, expensive and capped connections.

"There's a sense that we are drowning in mediocre experiences as digital lives get clogged"
Whoever says that is just getting what they're asking for.
When I find for good quality content I usually find it. When I don't find, I just stop and avoid to consume crappy content.
Well, at least not under the sight of the Great Algorithm. When I occasionally want to watch some BS content (i.e. memes) just to unwind a little, I use anonymous tabs.

You don't need a kg for a processor, you need a gram or even less... so like $0,75 each gram for such performance is pretty good.

Would be a nice director for it.
I know, I looked up his bio and he directed Warcraft, but...
Before that he directed "Moon" (2009). It's an awesome movie and I think it has the EXACT mood of what I'd like to see in a Mass Effect show.
Just make the man to play the games before, please.

> A large majority of it is then processed in China

It's was never hard to find lithium. The main problem is processing it. It's a very nasty and expensive process. China dominates it because they don't care about their environment, and they have dirty cheap labor and huge scale.
Are western countries willing to do it? No? Then nothing will change.
You can find enough raw lithium to supply 100x the world needs, if you're not willing to process it, China will. And you'll still keep depending on them.

Depending on your conception of "survivability", a world without electricity is survivable.

Don't worry, there's more than enough plastic already going to the landfills to support your theory.
And evolution is too slow to solve the plastic problem before it becomes catastrophic, especially for us.

Yes.
Winamp is peak music player. Any "improvement" will actually be enshittification.
At most, make it work with the music stream services du jour. Otherwise, leave it as it is.