Can confirm, both are an extension of Corporatocracy and the abortion of privacy.

Can you tell us more about these Bad Actors? Are they in the room with us, right now?

You sound fun at parties. Circular firing squad, much?

Fwiw, several generations of Windows notebooks have suffered from nasty sleep bugs where they wake themselves up from sleep, and drain their batteries while clamshelled in a book bag. Used to happen with my work Dells almost monthly. Microsoft’s announced win11 fix for it is one of the loudest and most venerated I’ve heard, in living memory.

Best I ever got out of the deal was a spicy pillow, no breach, and I’ve been unable to find any articles about any rash of laptop explosions which would have had very high visibility.

It sounds like you have also been as lucky as I have. May we all hope to escape the fires, a little longer.

Yes, but our gear should have sensors that know when thermal transfer is sustainably going to impact the batteries.

I’m sorry, you lost me at the ‘Legal Entity’ bit, that one always sounds like SovCit kool-aid. Got to be careful with that one, with so many libertarian crazies afoot.