Which is, admittedly, the whole point of the BSD license. And let's not pretend that Apple didn't give back a ton of its work on OSX/MacOS, including the rendering engine that launched Chrome and kept it going for years.

A $2400 laptop with a 1980x1080 screen? Surely you troll, considering that a MacBook has 3072x1920 for the same price - and the screen is one of if not the primary interface elements between the laptop and the human using it.

Which is one of those not-obvious optimizations, despite what's being discussed here. It's often cheaper in terms of power to run hard for a brief amount of time than to accomplish the same total computation load over a longer period of time. If it was as slam-dunk a win as its being portrayed to be, it might well already be in place. Haters gonna hate, but the people who work on the MacOS battery life problem aren't stupid.

They screamed bloody murder when Apple dropped the other connectors in favor of USB-A as well, and called bullshit on that too. People are quick to forget.

Except that they didn't. Everyone loved to talk about the 17", but nobody was buying it. Do you really think that they wouldn't still be making it if it had been flying off the shelves?

As for the function keys, I personally prefer a keyboard that's centered on the monitor for a laptop, rather than one where 99.9% of my typing is off to the left.

The Watch was something of a game changer. Not because its dramatically easier than the phone, but because it moves the experience from not-quite-good-enough to better-than-the-alternatives. It's faster, easier, and more secure than using a chip at this point, so why wouldn't you use it if you have the option?

The real problem not that secure DNS existis, its that DNS is being handled by the browsers instead of by the OS in these cases. Separate services for separate concerns, guys. We should't have to use tools like dnscrypt-proxy for something that's getting this much traction.

Same with the app - you only need to have successfully authenticated to it once, so long as you don't instruct it to forget you. Which apparently some people did, and then got surprised when it failed to work perfectly? People are stupid.

Why you'd expect to unlock your car solely with a device that you've never previously used to unlock the car, I have no idea.

Or just don't log out of the app that you're relying on to drive your car. I mean, you already have to authenticate to your phone, why not trust that?

What exactly does this have to do with the story? Is it supporting it somehow that I'm just not seeing?

"double-isolated USB" sounds a bit like gold-plated HDMI. I mean, its a digital signal, it either connects properly or not at all.

You mean something like https://www.schooloutfitters.c... (random result from Google)? $5 USB earbuds aren't hard to find.

So long as charging is widely available, and batteries continue to be long-lasting, its likely going to be just fine. If your laptop is always charged when its sitting on your desk, in a conference room, and (at some point) at a coffee shop, the chances that you'd actually benefit from the faster charging available by plugging in would be small.

Referral agreements are commonplace. They could almost all be abused. Arguing that they should spell out in great detail every possible way in which they could be abused (such as paying the phone company to bounce your number through the redirect link, or paying your OS vendor to change the numbers when they see them) isn't realistic. Putting this burden on the referral recipient is why we have so many, many stupid laws - and also why that approach is never enough.