But they choose to subscribe to that religion and could choose to stop. They could choose to no longer make it core to their being.

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.

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

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.

They don’t expect them to be perfect. They expect them to be accountable for the consequences of their mistakes.

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.

Did you ever wonder if maybe it is because she has a horrible piece of shit for a father?

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.

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.

Then they shouldn’t “sell” it.