It's already been a few years.

That's because they used SHIV, a hybrid virus, not SIV. They chose SHIV because it's response to anti-retrovirals resembles that of HIV.

People buy the cheapest because they don't trust the 'rating' on the package. They know it will die 'early' anyway so they might as well be cheated out of $5 rather than $10.

That's because Windows users don't tend to get Linux foisted upon them or have some device or another they want say "sorry, Linux only".

Windows users don't have problems with Linux systems refusing to interoperate.

MS bugs don't even make the headlines anymore.

Because I feel at least some sense of responsibility for not infecting people who visit my site but I have no idea how well you or some other party have secured their sites.

As long as you don't install the update everything is fine? :-)

At Apple we bend over backwards to bring you the thinnest phones?

Only in a desperate "please won't you stuff me into the nearest locker" sense of legit.

The residents are still free to waste all the food they want as long as they put it in the correct bin.

If the manufacturers wouldn't be so clingy, many of these problems would go away. They COULD embed a tiny web server in the device and just have it sit on the LAN. Ideally it would also have a very simple protocol to talk to (or at least a proper web API). But they insist on having the things connect to their server 'in the cloud'. Not just offer that, insist on it.

I won't even consider installing such a thing until it willingly confines itself to my LAN. If I want remote access, it will go through another server that then uses the simple and well documented API to pass the commands along.

He's too much!

Listening to users in the beginning might not be such a good idea, but later on, when you present users with your new vision and they scream "the goggles, they do nothing!" and running for the hills, it may be time to accept that that's not the direction they want to go. Doubling down on it at that point is not helpful.

I'm fairly convinced the Gnome project was taken over by a group of psychologists experimenting with how far you can push users before they leave. Even with all of that going on, guess what project was the first to grow a new dependency on systemd?

Essentially we've twisted society up in knots until increasing numbers of people can't tolerate it and then rather than fixing the thing, we prescribe drugs to make it sort of tolerable.

Offtopic, really?!?

That's more or less my feeling on it. Perhaps an early fork will afford the opportunity to assert a proper design on the thing and salvage a win. Some of the individual features of systemd are good in themselves and I believe most of the cons can be fixed with a proper design.