That is some unexpected news, as I was reading an interview of a French economic newspaper with this guy.
Let me chime in for a personal revendication which might be useful for the working or modest or youth classes. Counterstrike 1.x is lacking servers both in quantity and quality, a small few are nice but it is a pain to suffer 24/7 dust2, zombie mods (wtf?) and too many gun game servers. We should organize to provide community servers with good map rotations, good map voting (but servers without voting as in the good old times too) and ensure popular education with such classics as cs_militia, de_aztec (CS 1.5 version), de_prodigy, de_nuke (old version where you can climb on roof), de_ccble you name it. Even a hundred servers ought to require not many hardware resources these days, they probably could run on one box.

Counter-Strike 1.6 also allows anyone to compete as it will run on a modest PC and even with a really crappy OpenGL driver (linux) at high framerates, actually a low end CRT monitor at 85Hz is plenty fine there. Counter-Strike 1.5 is even less demanding, doesn't need Steam and can still be run though there's the little aspect of no CD key checking on the network (everyone gets 2^32 - 1 as the CD key)

No need to get in debt to buy recent PC parts!

It sure is.
For stationary images best would be for a "USB graphics card" to work (that's how I call a USB to HDMI adapter)
If an SBC comes with USB 3.0 then it's even better. Weirdly my googling turns up cheaper USB 3.0 adapters than 2.0 ones, like newer tech is more viable, newer, higher volume, cheaper.

But while the hardware is less overkill that way, cost of SBC + USB adapter gets nearer to the cheapest dual output PC (NUC, new fit-PC). Bigger hurdle : I have no clear idea of CPU, GPU and OS requirements.

x86 ones with an Intel or AMD CPU can.

I would be able to do that with cut, sed, awk, QBASIC, C or whatever, but I don't know how to do it in a spreadsheet.

Look at what Greece just did : they changed their government by voting.
It's doubtful the same can happen in the US but I hope you can keep a glimpse hope.

I will guess :
- certificate errors that people will have to click through ten times a day
- people lock themselves out, accidentally lose their data (lost keys, lost cellphone needed to receive an SMS)
- interoperabiliy problems of old versions and unpatched browsers, libraries, software
- encrypted ads and encrypted malware will infect your encrypted browser and mess with your encrypted data.
after non-root computing and port 80 computing, meet encrypted computing, same crap one more layer down
- bad guys will still mess with it
- in the end, you're still fucked because you used failbook, skype etc. or you posted public content in comment threads, forums, IRC etc.

Phones use little energy and possibly newer phones use more energy than older ones (bigger screen, more features, bigger battery, more games, more spyware apps)

To charge the true cost of energy, see carbon tax.
Sometimes energy efficiency is very questionable (hybrid cars's complexity and batteries, or a TV more efficient but bigger), there even may be surprises such as the fabrication of a LCD monitor costs more energy than that of a CRT one.

lol that phone has a 720p screen, 1GB RAM, dual cortex A9, dual camera, 16GB flash. It might be "old" but still better than low end phones. That's getting ridiculous, it is a bit like arguing an Xbox One is old and tired so it's no big deal if people can attack it at will to steal your microsoft accounts and whatever.

Now I have to inform my friend who uses a Galaxy Note that his data and mail accounts may be at risk unless we fuck with the OS and bootloader, or maybe take countermeasures such as install firefox and uninstalling every app. What a pain in the butt. No, he spent big bucks on it when it was new and it isn't damaged. Getting a new one is unreasonable.

Debian squeeze has been put into a new LTS scheme meaning its support has been increased to five years.

Title bar includes the full length web page's title, missing it is a usability issue for me. I'm disappointed that even Firefox doesn't include it when it's run on Windows (haven't investigated where is the option to turn it back on) though on linux it seems to always have it.

It is also consistent that a window gets to keep what I call the "Windows 3.1 menu" on the top left. That sort of consistency worked well for the past 25 years on Windows, Unix and linux.
Even "cut/copy/paste" in the "Edit" menu can be useful sometimes, such as I'm using a file manager but there is no empty space available to right-click and paste.

Ending the iPod classic still is an issue. With no apps and no network connectivity, it was reasonable to keep it for a decade or more like consumer electronics used to (VCR, CD player, walkman)
Nothing stops them from making a new version with a 256GB flash drive instead of the hard disk drive (as 1.8" hard drives have been deprecated)

You can install Windows 7 on a PC from 2002. Seen one such in the wild, it lacked 3D acceleration but that was fixed by installing an XP driver on Windows 7.
So there would be no outrage if you could install Android 5.0 on that abandoned Android 4.3 device, and if that Android 5.0 could use the drivers baked in the Android 4.3 installation so that most critical functionality keeps working (such as GPU, wifi and phone calls)

It might be a good idea. Not sure what the support policy is for Windows Phone 8 and later Windows 10 on phone, but the desktop variant is known for 11-year support cycles.
If you're refusing Apple and Android you have to find something else. Maybe Blackberry but it's expensive. So that leaves Windows and Firefox. Even with Firefox OS the upgrade situation is not clear with devices still on 1.3 and awaiting 2.x images, even though the OS is more free than Android and it doesn't have crapware. (but it is possible to install 2.x still)

You can't even do ctrl-alt-del on a Mac. Really, the interface is weird and dated. I would rather use the Windows 3.1 interface (it just needs a tweak so your minimized icons have a bar of their own in the bottom). Hell it's easier to get around in fluxbox, editing the menu by hand in a text editor. Macintosh is harder to use than "worse than Windows 3.1" linux/unix window managers.

The web applications I use have a "save" button, "save preferences", "send", "submit"