If you're looking for "camera" drones (not DIY acrobatic or racing drones), DJI is unfortunately the only real option these days. The Neo is around $300 without the controller. Don't expect stellar performance in wind, though.
Autel, Parrot, and Skydio have all moved out of consumer segments into professional, industrial, and governmental.
Lithium batteries must have some charge, otherwise they break down chemically. Typically, it's around 40-50% charge, but varies with the exact chemistry of the battery.
And, yes, higher charge means more violent reaction to fire and being punctured for most lithium battery chemistries.
I'm not sure about other chemistries, like NiMH and sodium, that have been used in EVs. But lithium is the most popular.
Well, I guess I'll be disabling my Telegram account finally. The only thing left that I was doing on it was automatic notifications from the services on my home NAS. Not sure what I'll do instead. Maybe Matrix?
Not sure about your situation specifically, but restaurants requiring a credit card during reservation is on the rise to combat reservation scalping and the no-shows that res scalping causes.
Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Unrestricted_jus_soli
If I'm counting correctly, 34 countries with unrestricted birthright citizenship, and 40 with restricted.
Friends don't let friends recognize the bodies in the water. ;)
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316
Edit: if you prefer TheVolgun read it to you: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dh_GCH7kc4Q
You can thank to phenylephrine's placebo effect for your improvements:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19230461/
Note: Some people do feel better on placebos than on nothing. It's a quark of the human brain. So, if it's working for you, don't switch. Or, maybe try pseudoephedrine and feel even better...
Maybe now, but definitely not originally. Apple grew the Maps ecosystem originally for feature parity reasons, not privacy ones. That's at least a bit more similar to the Search situation.
Turn-by-turn was the killer feature back in iPhone 4S time frame, and Google refused to allow it iOS, shipping it only on Android. Apple had some geographic features (reverse geo lookup specifically, iirc) prior to this in-house and had started developing their own maps because of the longstanding tension with iOS and Android, but Apple rushed to get turn-by-turn directions out the door in mid-2012, which is partially what caused it to launch pretty half-baked. Google introduced a dedicated Google Maps app on the iOS App Store in late 2012 with turn-by-turn in response to losing millions of daily-active users to the launch of Apple Maps.
Here's a retrospective from 2013 by The Guardian on the whole thing with a lot more detail:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/11/apple-maps-google-iphone-users
Now, Apple has run a web crawler since at least 2015:
https://www.engadget.com/2015-05-06-apple-web-crawler.html
Apple has been steadily building up its search expertise for the last decade. Notably, it acquired Topsy back in 2015, which was a search engine mostly based on Twitter data:
... then launched a few web-based Spotlight search integrations a few years later (which I can't find a good source for) which integrated common web searches for things like weather and news directly into Spotlight.
IMO, based on the above (and maybe a bit more), Apple's explanation in the article doesn't tell the full story. It doesn't want to build it, but it could. This is more is about Apple wanting to keep extracting the money from Google and not having to build another also-ran service to directly compete.
I feel that Mozilla is making the case for the exact remedies being discussed. If they didn't have financial entanglements with Google, they might still make the same choice, to offer Google Search as the default. However, substantial sums of money are at play. That, coupled with a lack of upfront choice for users (e.g., a first-run pick list), undermines Mozilla's entire position here. It's hard to believe they would be advocating to keep Google Search as the default if those large sums of money weren't at stake.
It is also disingenuous at best to equate choices being present elsewhere (search bar drop down) with the default choice when a user hits the enter key. That part bothered me quite a bit.
I'm a daily Firefox user since before it's 1.0 release, outside of some limited attempts with Chrome and Safari over a decade ago. Mozilla's choices recently, including this defense of Google, have made me begin considering alternative browsers, even though there are so few user-respecting ones.
Ok, cool. That's more my speed.
If you want to build a camera platform, a build with Ardupilot software or maybe iNav are your best options. They have very specific hardware requirements, though. Ardupilot has pretty exhaustive documentation, though.
If you want to get into racing or acrobatics, you can get either build an FPV quad from parts, or buy a "bind-n-fly" (BNF) -- Joshua Bardwell on Youtube is probably the place to start learning. You can get a tiny quad, called a tiny whoop, to fly around inside the house. If you want to do non-FPV, you basically just build an FPV quad but ignore the video system.
Be warned, DIY drones is a huge hobby.