If this is a real and documented concern, please provide sources so I can take a look.
Otherwise, no, batteries will not hold a charge for decades. Landmines and unexploded ordinance are analog. They will last as long as the mechanisms and explosive payload aren't damaged, or corroded.
Japanese cities were primarily built using wood as it was better suited for their climate and earthquakes. The fire bombing of Tokyo with a single deadliest attack on the Japanese mainland, killing even more than either atomic bomb drop.
They're referring to landmines, leftover from that region's wars of the mid-20th century: America's Vietnam & Cambodian war, French-Indochina war, Cambodian civil war, etc.
The legacy of landmines and chemical warfare is still regularly killing, maiming, and causes significant increases in fetal birth defects and other rare illnesses.
It's all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.
If they ever EOL'd them, I've got more than my money's worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I'd probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.
But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.
As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.
For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.
Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.
It means neoliberal, except at least in Australia their Labor party is still somewhat beholden to their unions, which are significantly stronger than in America.
The trade-off being, literally all news out there is Fox News.
There are two major media conglomerates, the Murdoch press, and the even more insane, Nine Entertainment. Together they own pretty much all newspapers and TV news stations.
They might also control the AM news stations, which are still relatively big given their geography, and lackluster nationwide Internet, but I don't recall off the top of my head.
Oh, and the last decade plus of Liberal/coalition governments, gutted the ABC and installed conservative toadies. Not sure what, if anything's changed under Albo, but the type of damage that was done can't all be readily be undone.
This is going to be one of the horrors of Ukraine. A legacy of landmines that will not be cleared in most of our lifetimes, even if the war ended today.
Not the same as unexploded airdropped ordinance, but significantly worse.
Modern air defense is layered, and latest generations are layered and networked.
Short, medium, and long range all have different kill methods/platforms, but may share radar and sensors suites, along with command and control systems.
The operator, system, or mixture of both, then decides which targets are threats, and which kill system to engage them with.
This is about a lot more than minerals and resources, and while you can't extricate those motivations from the larger rational, first and foremost this war was about regime security, or at least Putin's perception on the issue.
And then when it hit a brick wall almost immediately, it really increased Putin's concerns about his regime security.
That, and people who have certain underlying mental health issues, or a family history of them, such as schizophrenia, should never take psychedelic drugs.
Consult a doctor, or at least Google, for a more complete list of the conditions that do not respond well to psychedelics.
The irony is that with that response, either you lost the plot, or I did. I honestly don't know which.
I genuinely don't know what you're referring to, and don't care enough to read this entire thread to try and figure it out.
If you want to post examples, I'll take a look.
I will say that if you decide not to reply and post specific examples, I will not take that to mean anything other than you not wanting to waste anymore time here in this pointless back and forth.
No amount of copium is going to clear those minefields, or save the coming generations Ukrainians, who will continue to be maimed and killed by these for the foreseeable future..
The only real hope, is that there is a significant technological development that that both dramatically expedites the complete mapping of minefields, and allows demining personel to rapidily destroy the ordinace, while being outside of the blast and shrapnel radius.