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I suspect he has plenty of equally evil replacements ready to take over.

It isn't as good as Al but that is still a massive heat sink.

For now. Those used cars are rusting and otherwise wearing out.

The third parties would win sueing car makers for requiring the radio for diagnostics. anti-monopoly and warranty laws protect moding you car.

In the us laws from the 1970's protect third party radios.

If it doesn't affect emissions those mod chips will not violate your warrantee - magnuson-moss was writen decades ago to protect replacing your factory radio. There are a number of other laws around third party access to car diagnostics.

wood when stored properly lasts a long time.

When look at the graph you see a slight dip in the past few decades for all age groups, but overall rates are nearly flat for all age groups.

The other option is a scroll. historicaly I'm told a book was always a scroll and the factor we now call a book was a codex. (I don't know how to verify this)

Do they have enough shells to use them? Limited supply of shells has long been a talking point.

even if their country has a port that doesn't mean they keep their yacht there. better to fly to a Carribian island where the weather is nice than keep it near home and spend all that time sailing to where you want to be - boats are typically so slow that they would need to leave before they get there. If you want the yacht is some port you have the crew move it there and then you fly to it.