While good for privacy, this sounds like an awful UX change for the average person. Some sort of nice toggle to disable it would be good, but removing it all together would probably annoy more people than it benefits.

You’re still using itunes and not apple music?

… they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.

Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.

Any time I want to watch my emails I just go to the web ui for it. I doubt any 3rd party client will ever come close to what google and Microsoft offer for their own email accounts.

They’re absolutely not crawling it every time they nee to access the data. That’s an incredible waste of processing power on their end as well.

In the case of code though that does change somewhat often. They’d still need to check if the code has been updated at the bare minimum.

DSC is lossless compression.

What “merits” needing a CPU upgrade? I upgraded from a core i9 11950h to a 13900h machine because I needed more performance. That 11th gen machine still looks pristine besides one spot where a cat bit the corner of the lid. Even my piddling around machine wasn’t up to snuff and upgraded from a 10th gen i5 to a 12th gen system. That machine’s keyboard was a bit worn when I first got it, but it’s not (appreciably) worse now. Besides that and maybe the palm rest the chassis is in pretty good condition. Why does it matter if the keycaps are a little smooth? Or there’s a small scuff on one corner. Or a cat punctured the bezel of the display and somehow didn’t break anything.

You’re worried about the screen being worn out? How does a screen wear out (excluding maybe oled burn in, but this aint oled). And a good chassis shouldn’t show that much wear after a few years.

They’re still far better than everything else on the market.

IdeaPads also aren’t ThinkPads. Those are the consumer grade garbage you’d want to stay away from.

That’s cool. Performance per dollar isn’t the only factor for a laptop.

Size

Weight

Durability

Battery life

I/O and other features.

A not dogshit network card

An actually usuable trackpad

I’m sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can’t change after you buy it.

Windows Hello (and presumably modern Linux equivalents) use the camera + IR transmitters to work at least similarly to how apples Face ID works. In theory they should both be secure, but in practice who knows what they fucked up.

DWM

Forking splits the community, development resources, etc and ensures Linux will stay irreverent to the home user.

If everyone switches over to the fork that’s great. But let’s be honest. Ubuntu isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

Ubuntu?

Just because it’s open source and anyone could theoretically fork it doesn’t mean it can’t be enshitified.

Install it in a VM. Create snapshots. When you fuck it up then revert the snapshot.

Once you’re decent at figuring out what to and not to do then try to get proficient at file system snapshots so you can do the same thing more or less on bare metal.

No, it’s not allowed. The police are already on the way for thought crimes against updating.

Malware creators?

I had about 300 days of uptime on my server but I did some hardware maintenance recently. I’m back up to like 20 but I need to do more stuff.

I did find a fun “bug” the other day with windows and how it tracks uptime. Since shutting down hibernates the kernel it doesn’t treat it as time off. So when I fired up this surface I hadn’t used in a long time it had 180 days of uptime.

Windows subsystem for Linux exists for that very reason.