Increasingly these kinds of apps are a requirement for a lot of features so ...

Is there a way to sign up without using Google/Apple sign-in?

Ahead of the market maybe but Teslas just suck eggs.

Lol what a waste of money

One of the more satisfying things I do with new computers is disable secure boot.

That's the first thing I do, too. Given my own security needs, secure boot brings much more pain than benefit to me.

Secure Boot can be leveraged to more securely boot anything you choose, but it does require some setup effort, so I get it if you choose to keep things simple (but less secure).

The first time I experienced crowdstrike in a corporate environment it seemed obvious that something like this would eventually happen.

What point are you trying to make exactly? This can be said about literally anything.

Also most microplastics in the environment are from rubber tires grinding away on road surfaces so the food packaging stuff is a little forest for the trees imo.

food packaging doesn't produce microplastics, and you inhale tire dust

Doesn't it? Got any evidence for that claim?

Of course it does - plastics used in packaging scratch easily. That's enough to produce microplastics.

Additionally polypropylene degrades under sunlight, becoming brittle. The process takes several months.

oh, sure, they can produce microplastics after you take the food out. but you aren't going to get plastic dust in your lettuce

the most common plastics used in packaging are pet, polypropylene, and polyethylene, which have exceptional elongation at break. when you scratch them, you don't produce microplastics; you produce a burr on the surface

You're gonna get it in your yoghurt and food packed in tupperware though, as metal utensils can and will scrape some of the plastic off.

Anyway, they're already present in tap water, so your lettuce is also already infused with microplastics.

that's a good point about the tap water, and you're probably right about polystyrene yogurt cups and tupperware, though i still think you won't find any evidence of it unless you do the experiment yourself