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No doubt the same shareholders who've 'diversified' and have some stake in componentry being prohibitively expensive too.

I think basically everything Sony's simultaneously doing and not doing right now is inexplicable.

Gotta keep hope, otherwise what's the point, right?

You know Trump won't always be in office, right? He isn't a permanent fixture. Best case scenario, he croaks today, worst case scenario, he's out in another two and a half years. Granted I'm not exactly expecting miracles of whoever comes next, but they couldn't be much worse than the overinflated oompah loompah.

Same logic as any control freak; anything less than 100% control isn't good enough.

For what it's worth, the bounty is headed by Louis Rossman who's been a loud voice in the Right to Repair movement with the help of his employer FUTO. The lack of requirement to release publicly is likely to help against anyone who might find the exploit feeling like they'll become a target for Sony's lawyers.

PIA is still up there, in my opinion. They couldn't care less about torrenting, proven no-logs service, port-forwarding, split-tunnelling for those pesky .gov sites that deny basic privacy rights. And its - debatably - best feature, it's cheap.

Tomato, tomahto. OP is still presenting it as fact.

Because you have a bias?

I can't agree on Schuko because I always found them to be awkward to plug in, sometimes needing to wiggle them while applying an uncomfortable amount of force.

As a Brit, I'm guessing their issues with earthing is that we make everything earthed and fused, even when it's not needed on a device, but the longer prong that is the earth post on our 3-pin plugs is a security feature of our plug/socket and makes any item that requires earthing to be earthed before it is even powered.

Couldn't say why they have issues with ring mains though. It became the norm in a post-war Britain when copper was still scarce.