True, and more generally I would not recommend drinking out of plastic containers anyway

They don’t even really look that good. A 3d printer could probably have similar output in an afternoon for less than 10 bucks of filament

Personally, I don’t give Microsoft the benefit of doubt. But technically I’m guessing they are not sending the audio data to their backend so no snooping there.
The rest of the meeting is free game however I’m pretty sure.

For the mic mute issue, I guess it’s so they can show a little popup saying you are muted when they detect a signal coming in

I hate the concept because it’s just really wasteful of energy. If I recall correctly, only 30% of the power output of the charger goes into the device, versus 95+% for wired.

I think I read the book you mention! I thought about it recently but could not remember the name