I for one have been in denial and probably won’t switch away until it literally stops working. So, there’s hope.

The word “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your edit. The replacement for that dependency doesn’t allow an extension to work as an ad blocker as effectively as the thing they are deprecating. This is deliberate.

I call that following the same successful recipe that got us the Falcon 9.

The mindset that considers those tests failures is the same one that would still be in bureaucracy hell determining what 40 year old technology we should repurpose to get a future over budget, late, and under performing solution designed and built.

Fuel cells don’t burn the hydrogen. There is no combustion.

Boot the laptop from a USB memory stick that has a Linux installer on it.

I’m assuming the original post you replied to was meant to be a joke, since, like you pointed out, many or most people use RSA. I assume (using Occam’s Razor) that is more likely than them not knowing that and intending their post at face value.

Woosh? (Probably)

They didn’t mean the backdoor was (or was not) an accident. They meant the backdoor was implemented sloppily enough to be discovered and maybe that was not an accident (as in, he wanted it to be found, but still wanted to plausibly be seen as trying his best to keep those coercing him appeased)

But how is that a criticism of the Mac mini? All it does is give you purchasing flexibility (eg if you already own Apple kbd/mouse). It is like you are implicitly arguing that they should raise the price and include those components. But that would be bad for some consumers that already have those items and would help nobody because you can already buy those separately.

But in this context, desktop includes laptops. People still buy those.

I’m not sure that conclusion follows. There are many more potential future users than there are current users.

Your first sentence suggests you’re disagreeing, but nothing you said after that is incompatible with anything gp said.

I have fond memories of using my N900. But I would not have described it as well working :) It worked, sure, but not particularly well.

I think everyone always gets the direction right the first time. That’s why, when it won’t go in, and you rotate it 180, it still won’t go in and you have to flip it back to the original direction to finally get it in.

My guess is you were burned more than shocked.

Only the April releases in even years are LTS

No but it can definitely work around issues like a congested link between isp and Google, resolving network-related YouTube performance issues.

Why don’t you use an apple kbd/mouse/trackpad with your macmini?

It seems like you are trying to protect against a compromise of the user’s device. But if their device is compromised then their session is compromised after auth anyway and you aren’t solving much with extra auth factors.

If by magic you mean it will automatically record gigabytes of ads for you right out of thin air and sprinkle them throughout all the content…

OTA is unwatchable.