The original Voyager line used silicon-on-sapphire chips, which are extremely energy efficient. My 1987 vintage HP-15C is only on its third set of batteries. When they changed to a conventional CMOS process and emulated the original CPU on top of an ARM microcontroller the power drain went up.
Serious EAA (electronically assisted astronomy) users would probably get something like a Rowe-Ackerman-Schmidt Astrograph from Celestron with a ZWO camera, which isn’t even that expensive by astronomy standards, but I’d say the Nikon partnership with Unistellar suggests they see a market opportunity.
Well, Orion Telescopes and Meade just went out of business, so there may be something to the OP’s contention, at least as market dynamics are concerned.
but the OP's arguments also apply to insurance, yet businesses buy insurance every day. The difference is the fines and liability for data breaches are so paltry it is the rational thing to do not to invest in security. This can only change through legislative action. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Was there any sanction? Or is it just an EU level ruling guiding national bodies going forward?
Because the problem isn’t that the regulation is vague or that EU level bodies don’t interpret them, it’s that there aren’t any big fines handed out. Like in this case you’d have low-ish first fine and then if they repeat the offense it should be the max X% of global revenue right away.
I live in London. My local council (Camden) equipped every other lamp-post with a Siemens Ubitricity (now owned by Shell) EV charger 2 years ago. Problem solved.
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