Mailbox.org is great! Has many benefits and can be fairly cheap. (A few € a month)

That sucks so much. I have such a cool vein scanner built in to unlock my laptop jedi style and I can’t use it because Fujitsu decided to not add support for Linux 🙄

Gmail really is a drug, huh?

Nobody goes like" Oh fuck I can’t take it anymore I just need another hit of Google Lens"

Keeping accounts for key services is a smart idea because at least you will always be able to take control if you need to. Also identity theft gets harder

Yes-ish However the differences are not as big as you think. While this might be true for the luxury brands the “common” brands do share parts, often quite crucial ones too. (Think headlamps, think servos) Also they started to borrow design aspects from each other. They are not identical but certain lines do look very similar on a quick glance

Also currently trying to get NIS2/27001 compliant before the October deadline hits? ^^

I mean this is sort of like what the new NIS2 Regulations tries to achieve. Make critical infrastructure producers and maintainers aware and force them to treat their infrastructure accordingly.

Nervous sweating from the Audi-Bentley-Ducati-Lamborghini-Seat-Skoda-Volkswagen-Porsche-Conglomerate known as “Volkswagen AG”

All the examples you have brought forward apply to private individuals. This is about cooperations and companies. Those very different legal entities.