I actually look forward to the day they charge for carry-ons.

I'm pretty sure Spirit does that already, and has for years.

digikey may have them, but on Amazon they are still owned by the scalpers.

...but for how much longer? As word continues to get out that you can find RPi hardware at MSRP, who in his right mind would pay what the scalpers are still trying to charge?

Still here occasionally, though /. is only one of several sites whose RSS feeds I follow...and it's not one that I check every day. I couldn't say when I last posted a journal entry; I'd have to look it up. Things that would've gotten a journal entry in the past tend to be posted on my blog instead, and even those posts are rather irregular.

I used to have years worth of Rainbow magazines for the CoCo, which all got destroyed in a flood in the mid 2000's.

Is there an archive (whether fully legal or otherwise) of those magazines of which you could acquire a copy? The publisher of Nibble made the whole collection available on DVD a while back for a reasonable cost, so I snagged a copy and read it into my media server.

Before my decades-long involvement with the Apple II, I learned BASIC on my grandfather's CoCo and was starting to pick up 6809 assembly language before moving overseas. I have a CoCo 2 packed away in storage that I picked up cheap in the '90s and wouldn't mind picking up some of the magazines, such as Rainbow, that were available for it.

JuicedGS is still in print.

Do magazines for legacy/retrocomputing/obsolete/whatever platforms count? If so, I suspect there are several other publications still extant. For most people and most purposes, though, I'd be inclined to say it doesn't count.

(I say this as an owner of multiple Apple IIGSes (and some IIes and a II+), though I've never subscribed to Juiced.GS. I had a Nibble subscription from 1985 until publication ended in the mid-90s (and had a program published in the April 1990 issue), and an Open-Apple/A2-Central subscription from a few years later.)

Indeed - I have run Linux in 4MB!

Well, yes, but OP was talking about full-on distros

I've run a "full-on distro" (think it was SLS, installed from a binder full of 5.25" floppies) in 4 MB of RAM, with an X server and everything (think I was using twm with it). It was on a 386SX with 120 MB of disk and 4 MB of RAM, and it was probably the better part of 30 years ago now, but it was doable...even usable, as I recall, at least by the standards of the time.

Ford has spent an enormous amount of money to only sell 1336 F-150 Lightnings.

To put this number in perspective, Ford ordinarily shifts about a half-million F-150s every year. The gas models are huge sellers. Electric? Not so much.

On a whim, I thought I'd compare the F-150 Lightning to an expensive (2-4x) car that's not expected to put up huge sales numbers: the Porsche 911. In 2022, you know how many 911s shipped? 7419, and I think that's only in the US. Even something as exclusive as the 911 managed to outsell the F-150 Lightning by more than 5-to-1.

You might also try hitting up your favorite news site's RSS feed instead. Even if the feed only has a summary, there are scripts that will pull the full text of the article and inject that into the feed that your reader shows. I do this with a news site that has gotten more aggressive with its paywall and anti-adblock measures recently; full news articles are still coming through that I can browse with a feed reader.

In the days before the WEB, newspapers and magazines had ads, but they were such people could ignore them. Plus easy enough for people to look for them. I knew a few who liked the ads in the "old" media and would go through them.

In a few cases, the ads were pretty much the whole point of the publication. Computer Shopper was one such example. I built my first x86 box in the early '90s by scouring the ads in Computer Shopper for parts and following some books and a videotape that showed how everything went together. In a few hours, I had a 12-MHz 286 with a 120-MB hard drive and a 14.4-kbps modem that took over running my BBS from an Apple IIe (with a 40-MB hard drive and a 2400-bps modem). When I added DESQview to the mix, I could even do some maintenance tasks in the background while the BBS kept answering calls. Good times.

It has also been shown to reduce the risk of murdering cow-orkers early in the morning.

FTFY.

Unfortunately, while block lists were just about adequate to keep the signal to noise ratio high enough back in the day, I fear it would be a losing battle at the scale of today's internet.

The handful of newsgroups I still follow actually don't have that much spam posted to them. It isn't nonexistent, but my email server easily sees orders of magnitude more spam (most of which is nuked before I see it, but more gets through than I'd like). comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.misc, and comp.sys.apple2 see moderate amounts of traffic and not much in the way of trolls.

Neither is FOSS, neither have Kodi's playback abilities, and Plex at least is pissing off its user-base left and right.

I'm not sure what Plex is doing that's pissing off its userbase, but I'm doing OK with it. I've run Kodi on things from old nettops to most versions of the Raspberry Pi to the Rock Pi X, but I'm getting to where I don't want to keep rebuilding software for my STBs. Plex runs on Roku and Fire TV sticks, and the Fire TV stick even has a web browser I can point to my Invidious server to handle my YouTube viewing. Since it's basically an Android device, I can sideload most Android apps onto it (and Apps2Fire makes it easy).

I'm leaning toward just putting Fire TV sticks on everything. Roku's missing a web browser, and AFAIK there's no way to add an ad blocker to it to clean up YouTube (and I can't get it to talk to an Invidious server instead of YouTube).

And here's the thing: I shouldn't have to look for a solution at all. I don't use IE for anything except customer support, and only because the camera maker supports IE only.

...and why did you (or whoever it was, if it wasn't you) buy a bunch of cameras that were only supported by one particular browser? Surely there were better choices available at the time.

I have some old IP cams (GeoVision GV-BX110s, if it matters) sitting in my desk that were primarily supported by some wonky browser interface, but a bit of digging revealed a port from which I could direct VLC to pull a stream for playback. If you're lucky, that might be an option if you can find information on your cameras.

I thought Edge had a "compatibility mode".

It does. I maintain some computers in a department at work where that feature is enabled for a state-government website our people need to access that still needs IE and Silverlight (!) to run. We keep a copy of the Silverlight installer on hand because you can't download it from Microsoft anymore, and there are some registry hacks involved in keeping this site running in "IE mode" (otherwise, the override to do so expires every 30 days). It's a royal pain in the ass, but expecting competence from the state is a fool's errand.

Are any of the people asking for this even Native American?

Magic 8-Ball says "very doubtful." These complaints are nearly always driven by AWFLs and other white shitlibs with too much time on their hands, and not the allegedly aggrieved.