That is an argument for libyears, not against it. If they only updated the docs, why didn't you upgrade already? If anything, projects using stable libraries like this could very easily reach 0 libyears, because there are no breaking changes when upgrading.
It's in the article: The author found information about the presumed attacker on a site where parents write about their gifted (= highly talented) children.
> Katainen didn’t like the value proposition considering used 2013 Model S vehicles go for about 35,000 euros in Finland and he didn’t have access to a third-party shop to fix the pack.
It's literally in the article that that wasn't an option.
2. Yes but ~1990 is not a good baseline as back then lots of highly inefficient industry and power plants of former GDR were still running and on the brink of being demolished due to economic collapse. It makes Germanys efforts look much better than they were.
Nothing is stopping you from adding the secret token to multiple apps or devices to generate TOTP codes, as there is no connection between the service providing the secret and the TOTP generator.
One way to have a backup is just adding all your secrets to your password manager like KeePass, KeeWeb etc which can generate TOTP codes (but kind of defeats the purpose of _two_ factor).
Same with the System Settings: Here search is disabled as well when you are not on the index page. So quickly going from display to drivers or similar is not possible.
Do you remember which program that was? Afaik elementary does not have any official backup application or function so I wouldn't put the blame on them here.