I too was disappointed. Apple ain't what it used to be. How long can you keep being excited at doing the same thing over and over again, new phones new iPads. I could return it at Costco 90 days. Got an Apple Air M2 instead. Yet my old iPad 5th generation was better. This iPad Air M2 is slow accessing sites like gmail...

One day AI will take "read" a novel and turn it into a decent movies, no actors. A search on Perplexity wrote that would be expected by 2050 to 2070, I say at most 2035.

I cannot look at a physical map while driving without risking my life, however lagal that is...

I don't mind what is known about me I just wish I could access this data to remember where I have been at a certain day and time. I would have loved Google Glass. I have nothing to hide, yet it would have been nice when I misplaced something to find it through the gathered info from Google Glass.

You write : "My old laptop, which used to slow down with Windows 10, now runs much faster on Linux Mint." Well my 17 year old HP laptop 4 GB memory, 266 MHZ dual core processor runs Windows 10 fine and quick as ever, I tried Linux Mint after wiping out the SSD disk to a clean slate. Linux was slow to a crawl, why?

Thanks for the information, it is awesome to know about this satellite link for emergencies.