I haven’t had the courage to run executable code from P2P networks since the early 2000s. Even then it was probably a bad idea.

They’d be expensive to run but it would likely only be for a few days per year.

“Pay for more electricity” might not work very well, if everybody in a region uses resistive heat at the same time. I’m not sure what the solution is… maybe an overprovisioned power grid, cheaper battery tech, or tanks of renewable backup fuel like dimethyl ether?

Android still doesn’t support DHCPv6 and will be left without a valid address.

RFC 7934 explains their reasoning, though it’s not exactly an ironclad argument.