Here are some reasons told through what-if.

TL;DR: People like to sleep in the dark generally, and businesses that close are open when more people are awake.

It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim!

Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.

(Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU

Boost only shows them on individual user profile pages, not in threads, so I don’t even know who has one to go look at it.

I think they are referencing how Li-ion batteries just generally have a limited number of charge cycles, so they don’t want to waste a whole one.

It didn’t help that old phone, there seem to be limits to just how much adjustment it can make (including to dying batteries with less capacity also)

Yup. Battery percentages are an abstraction over the actual voltage and remaining amp-hours - it’s a complex formula which requires calibration and can easily be a bit off.

On one of my first smart phones, after replacing the battery with a much bigger one (both capacity and physically) it would still use the old formula, so it said 100% when halfway charged and after fully charging, during use it would stay near 0 (or at it - can’t remember well) for half the actual usable time. I found an app that could show the actual voltage in the notifications, which helped a lot. (When it went under 3.5 or something, I knew it was almost out) But that number also varied with how much power was being drawn, etc.

Deal.

That’s not the gotcha you seem to think it is here.

“not merely stalking people” = It’s also allowing much worse than that!

… I want clear evidence that the LLM … will never hallucinate or make something up.

Nothing else you listed matters: That one reduces to “Ban all Generative AI”. Actually worse than that, it’s “Ban all machine learning models”.

My glasses are strong enough and with high enough refractive index that if I look at a point light source through the edge of a lens I can see a rough spectrum of it. I can easily tell a true violet LED from red+blue or yellow from red+green. Used to be able to tell white LEDs from incandescent but the LEDs got much better.