When the EU mandated USB-C, Apple included a bullshit adapter so they could keep their proprietary charger. But of course if someone with an iPhone was visiting my house they wouldn't have an adapter with them. Eventually the EU bitch-slapped Apple over that nonsense and now iPhones have USB-C for charging.
So, companies will definitely try to weasel out of serving consumers, and the EU will eventually sort them out.
a core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal grocery stores. The basket will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with roughly 20 additional categories of pantry staples, dairy and refrigerated goods
One function is a sort of guarantee that you have the knowledge and skills of the particular degrees you obtain.
The other function is to show that you are the kind of person who gets university degrees... whether that is because you are competent or just that you come from a socio-economic background that values university degrees nad can afford them.
For that second function cheating matters very little if you don't get caught.
For the first function, it might also not be super relevant. I had to take a humanities class for my computer science degree. If I had cheated on the theater exam it would not have made me a worse programmer. 😄
Is the singularity coming though? Exponential curves have a way of stopping. This can be s-shaped where it ends at a new level, or it can crash, or other fun shapes. In the real world things don't go to infinity... except for actual singularities (mostly black holes).
Moore's law has basically ended, for example. Chips aren't doubling the number of transistors every 2 years anymore (since 2010 or so). Cell phones have stopped evolving recently, and are basically all identical now.
My grandmother was around when the first car arrived in her county, when the Wright Brothers first flew, when radio and television arrived, through commercial flight, when the first satellite orbited the earth and when humans first walked on the moon. She got a phone and the Internet, lived through the discovery of the shape of the DNA molecule and vaccines that wiped out smallpox.
In the USA the y changed from having the KKK being a powerful party to having civil rights laws and banning Jim Crow laws, through the roaring 20s and the great Depression, and through the New Deal and Reagan's dismantling of the guardrails that kept capitalism surviving without killing the host.
I'd say the changes of the 21st century so far - while noteworthy and important - are not faster than the changes of the 20th century.
To be honest, I think the changes of the 19th century were even more massive. The step function of work being limited to what humans or animals could do to machines altered our society and our relationship to the world in ways unequalled since agricultural societies evolved. Railroads, telegraphs, electricity, steam ships. We discovered germ theory and electromagnetism and evolution. Amazing.
I use MoCA at home, 1 GBit. It works pretty well, and I get almost full speed.
Every now and then I have some blip and have to power cycle on one of the coax-to-Ethernet connector, so that's annoying. It's like twice a year, so not a huge problem.
The biggest drawback is high latency. It's milliseconds instead of microseconds in the house. I guess it's buffering and framing, so maybe unavoidable.
I also do see some small packet loss. Less than WiFi, but not zero like you'd see from a proper Cat6 cable.
Maybe just but a pair of MoCA adapters to try in your setup?
Note that GoG also has sales. 😅