The battery is user replaceable on the macbook air, is just not tool-less on the fly replaceable.
When the 2009 unibody aluminum macbooks came out, the SSD and the swappable battery were accessible from behind an aluminum plate which was secured by a finger lever which laid flush to the bottom of the case.
On my late 2015 air, is not even glued
"sometimes they do listen!" lmao
iCloud storage
No mention of this in the article but this is the only nagware i see regularly (sometimes multiple times a day). i've disabled apple music+, the music store, avoid their News app, and don't use their TV partially because of the persistence of those nags.
I've found good alternatives for things like third party cloud file storage (e.g. Owncloud), and Overcast has been a great replacement for whatever apple is doing for podcasts these days, but i have to use icloud storage for apple's messages and notes, and that means i can't get away from that persistent icloud storage nag.
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second