Read the headline which sounded interesting but the summary sounded like a completely different story.

Good luck trying to fix something when it breaks. You'll find little or no documentation, scripts that call scripts that lead to more scripts, and logs that don't give you any meaningful information. People did fork a systemd free version of Debian and Slackware is still chugging along without it.

I'm sure the guy who posted was behind 7 proxies.

We don't buy consumer displays at work for signage as they need to be on 14+ hours a day for years.

Commercial displays are what you are looking for. Sony has them, nec has some, im sure others. Prepare to pay more, double or triple the consumer cost. They are much more durable with prolonged use and you will probably not have to replace it for 10+ years. We have some plasmas from 2002 still running fine with the above dutycycle for instance.

They have features such as scheduling, remote turn on and are just simply built better. But you gotta pay.

I used to think that inmates talking about prison being a business was bullshit. Then I see how many prisons are privately run and how deals are made to keep that at a certain capacity. Then think of all the support companies that sell items to prisons (clothing, food, equipment, employees, etc etc). Then you look at the incarceration rate of the USA compared to other countries and it all becomes clear.

The answer is BSD. Try it, you'll love it. Great documentation, testing before features go live, UNIX philosophy still alive, the list goes on...

I wish they would implement the ability to stream to UPnP devices like a TV over ethernet/wireless. I can't watch movies without the audio compressor plugin. The music and movie sound engineers need to trade places. Going from whispers to ear blasting volumes does not make movies any better. And before you ask no I don't have a surround setup, only left and right Infinity Qe speakers. Surround sound is a cheap gimmick.

You are missing the point. This is a platform for hardware and software hackers. Somewhere between small microcontrollers (PIC/Atmel) and a PC.

How many PCs and laptops have GPIO pins and will run from a microSD card?

The Pi was never intended for video playback or a desktop replacement. The main goal was a low cost learning platform.

Firefox has become the new Netscape. Every release was slower and once they switched to Australis I dumped them entirely for Chrome. Most of the addons I used are also available for Chrome now. I got a good laugh reading about their video chat client. Nobody ever asked for that. How about making existing features better instead of adding shit for no good reason? No wonder Google stopped funding them. Google saw the direction it was going for and pulled out.

Nearly two grand for a days work? Get the fuck out of here. No wonder nobody is hiring them.

Say someone who receives a national security letter finds it posted completely anonymously to the internet. What can happen?

None of that stuff was ever on clearance when the place was closing. They stuck sale tags on everything and kept prices the same. Every store does this.