MS Office works in a browser, and LibreOffice opens Word/Powerpoint files just fine. Been using LibreOffice for years while my coworkers send me files made with MS Office. It’s simply not a blocker.

Yep, they are in Low Earth Orbit. A place that has a very, very small amount of air, so the satellites experience drag, lose speed, eventually the propellant tanks run dry, and they burn up in the atmosphere. The ISS experiences the same thing, which is why its altitude slowly falls, then you see a sharp increase as they push to a slightly higher orbit.

At the altitude the SpaceX satellites are at, they only passively stay up for a few years. With the onboard propulsion giving them each another few years.

The extremely drawn out timetable feels like me unloading the dishwasher as a kid, a task which took 30-60 min.

See, the dishes were 6 min, and the rest was watching Dragon Ball Z. :p

I have, on several occasions, realized I was waiting longer for ‘fast food’ than it takes to make the food myself at a quarter the price. ‘Fast food’ is no longer fast or cheap, which were pretty much the only two things it had going for it.

Assuming you have … appliances to cook and prepare the food

An inexpensive toaster oven and hot plate is all you need to make anything. The money you save in the first week of buying groceries instead of eating out will more than pay for those two appliances. Every week thereafter is more money in your pocket to put toward debt, fun, etc.

If you are buying groceries, you are spending more efficiently than half of America.

Groceries are 3x-4x cheaper than eating/ordering out.

I hope that Iran is just doing it as a stalling mechanism so that they can make strategic moves like actually acquiring nukes.

A major reason we had this war was Iran enriching Uranium for nukes. No country but Iran wants Iran to have nukes, least of all their immediate neighbors. Iran continuing to go for nukes in the future ensures this war happens again.

accuracy is not a huge concern at the design stage

Then I doubt they are running the mentioned most accurate, two-week-long physics solvers at this stage either. You only do that when you need accuracy. A quick simulation doesn’t take long.

I’m failing to see why the creative writing machine is better than a simulation set to ‘rough’.