Might be Ayase Momo from Dandadan?

In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited:

Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.

I, too, would be impressed by a pretty rock. Who needs absurdly expensive rings when you could have pretty rock 😌

(Plus, I'd always take a nice rock in my hand over the sensory nightmare of a ring on my finger)

CoMaps is a fork of Organic Maps that emerged after some drama with Organic Maps, the details of which (or even topic) I don't remember.

Comparing to OsmAnd, I suppose it's a matter of a relatively clean and simple UI but more limited features, while OsmAnd (from what I've heard) does kind of everything but has a less intuitive and more cluttered UI. I can't speak to that from first-hand experience but I've heard that quite often.

Can't speak to any other alternatives, personally. I find CoMaps perfect for on-foot navigation, and that's all I need since I hardly ever travel by car.

Does curling up on my bed and hugging my Blåhaj count?

According to this document, the Trent XWB from Rolls Royce has a fan diameter of 3m and a reference rotational speed of 2700 rpm for the low pressure stage, which would result in a blade tip speed of 424.1 m/s or 1526.8 km/h according to this calculator

Ich hatte die Wartung nicht auf dem Schirm und hab schon Vietnam-Flashbacks von feddit.de bekommen

You could try finding a conference related to the topic of your findings and, from there, look for associated workshops or similar that might fit the topic and submit your paper there. These can have lower barriers of entry and better chances of getting accepted than the actual conferences and might be more open to "outsiders", although I don't know about that for sure. This way you might be able to get something published as part of the conference proceedings.

Or, try finding someone who's recognized as a member of the scientific community and who'd be willing to co-author the paper and go from there. No idea how to go about that though.

In case someone tells you to eat a bag of dicks

If you feel like it, tell me the first random astronomy thing that comes to your mind 👀

Damn that really is a cool rock

Onto the "didn't realise that was dysphoria" pile you go!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, regarding the first point, in what way are the calendar clients proprietary? Unless I am missing something, the clients for iOS and Android are open source and licensed under GPLv3 while the desktop client (part of the mail app) appears to be licensed under AGPL v3.

The email system not working with Thunderbird etc. out-of-the-box is true but that is kind of understandable, considering that the emails are only stored and transmitted to the first-party clients in an encrypted form that other clients couldn't work with? And you could use the mail bridge (which is also open source, if I am not mistaken) to expose them as a local server to be used by Thunderbird etc., right? Maybe not ideal but I'd agrue it's "fine".

I do agree that there are things to dislike about Proton but those two don't seem like problems in my opinion...

Well, that was a painful watch. Constant overly dramatic music and sound effects, surprisingly little actual engineering talk, the same handful of B-roll shots and transitions over and over again, Shell executives patting themselves on the back. And the same "they had to turn to the past" for every challenge they encountered...

The editing felt like I was watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, not an engineering documentary.

How my day was. Or how I am doing. And actually caring about the answer and not just expecting a "good, thanks"...

Finally a sponsor I can get behind!