The most fun you can have on the Internet is correcting people who are wrong. So, today was a good and fun day. Thanks. ;)

Aluminium is typically used as is though

That would result in some shitty products. Aluminium is also mostly used as alloy, pure aluminium is pretty soft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_alloy

• What Phone manufacturer?
• What OS/ Version?
• When is that message displayed? When unlocking or in which app?
• What does the message say exactly?
• What mode of phone unlock is used?
• Got a screenshot of the message? Or even better a photo of the taped camera and phone with the message?

AnySoftKeyboard

https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard

I use Binary Eye now, no ads, free and open source. It is built on zxing. I was a bit pissed when zxing scanner stopped working a few years ago. All the alternatives where ad infested crap back then.

Most Barcode scanners included in Android and iOS can’t read them though. I know at least for Data Matrix, only a few scanners can handle them.

It is possible. Maybe the peering from his ISP to YouTube is shit/ overloaded. That was an issue for Deutsche Telekom for a few years because Telekom didn’t want to pay for better peering. With a VPN it is possible to get good peering to your ISP and YouTube and in return faster load speeds.

I can’t speak for other countries, but since the article is about Germany: You have never heard of Netzentwicklungsplan, Südlink, Südostlink, Lastmanagement für Ladestationen and many more of these things? The Netzausbau (expansion of the power grid) and Lastmanagement (power distribution management) is pretty much a huge topic for all Netzübertragungsbetreiber and the other smaller power grid operators in Germany. Most of the development is slow at the moment because of bureaucracy and NIMBYs but it is actively being worked on.

And every little thing on the screen makes a noise.