Mine doesn't have a web browser, or even MMS.
It's still a tiny computer (has USB, SD, FM) and *maybe* it can be messed with, but the easier way would be to take a JTAG to it after stealing it from me somehow.

Eh, I wrote it badly :) I wanted to mean that 5-10 years down the road, you're a bit better off having a Skylake GPU than a Broadwell GPU, for driver support/features.

I believe PCIe still has some life left - PCIe 4.0.
You're probably right in some way but this is the death of the PC as an open platform : you would only buy Intel stuff that only works with Intel stuff, AMD stuff that only works with AMD stuff (already that way with motherboard chipsets, but you still have additional controllers) or the third party hardware would have to be made for the specific platorm. Like 25 years ago with a card for Amiga, a card for Mac, a card for IBM PS/2..

You can go check the Intel Purley platform : multi-socket Skylake (both -EP and -EX). It's like your idea!, but with multiple "regular" CPU socket. Very high end, what with six channels of ddr4 per socket ; a socket will either take a regular Xeon (just a big core i7), a Xeon Phi which does have HBM or equivalent, or something else.
But if you want a sound card that will go to plain PCIe or USB.
Similar is the NVLink bus (from nvidia) that will link between GPUs, or to IBM Power9 (they call it "CAPI"). Even more expensive (well, IBM POWER8 / POWER9 ought to trickle down so you can get a motherboard made by Tyan, Supermicro etc. instead of buying an IBM computer that costs like a house)

For consumer stuff I will rather expect just a single socket. Most people are interested in a $50-$100 motherboard rather than a $500 one.

I don't unplug my warts. It's not your 1990s power bricks : they stay cool to the touch, well at least the USB ones.
I could use a switch on some power supplies (no, I rarely want to kill a whole power bar or a couple nested ones)

That's nothing. Real obnoxious stuff is you fail the registration for any reason, and then it says "This e-mail address is already taken". Repeat for the next attempt or two. UGGGHH!!!

Try it : it can get rid of overlay shit, including ribbons (top AND bottom) that halve your viewing space if you're on a short display.
That's on desktop though (Firefox). On mobile, if it exists, I don't know how you're supposed to right click on an element.

There's even one website that says "your mercy period has ended" (or whatever) after reading one article, and I'm supposed to log in. But the article is there under a pile of overlays, including a "greys out" one.

Or support for 64GB ram on the Skylake ; or wanting the newer GPU 5-10 years down the road. Yes, many reasons to get a Skylake. If you do want fastest CPU and fastest integrated GPU, Broadwell it is.

Skylake has same CPU performance, and slower GPU (no eDRAM). And version 1.0 motherboards.
Your advice is sound, but mostly if you don't need/care about the GPU or if you want new features like hdmi 2.0 and h265 decoder

The most relevant things I hid is the login (had my username displayed, btw irssi the IRC client leaks your username by default!) and the fact I downloaded a localized version. The previous time, I even donwloaded current win32 firefox!, not i686 linux ESR.

I just assumed 550 errors are issued when there are traffic spikes. Or just the filter of not getting an en-US version, combined with not many people using the ftp server in the first place do the trick (I don't think any 20-year-old knows what's an ftp these days.)

Many just want some PC to do audio, photo or video, or perhaps some other uses while still running "light" games (be it any blizzard or valve ones, or some stuff where being compatible and not CPU/RAM starved is well good enough)

Within some parameters (perhaps moreso with i5 5675C), the CPU has its merits. No need to spend cash, size and weight on PSU and cooling either. Yes you can buy a 125W CPU and a 200W graphics card instead (going to the other extreme)
The elephant in the room is a $40 Celeron or a $50 AMD are über powerful for most people that don't run Crysis or video editing.

What a shame that we're both modded Troll! Please.
At this point it's blatant naked moderation abuse. And we're just arguing about boring technical and business issues.

Drivers can be related to security; even graphics ones. Usual bullshit like sending specially crafted/malformed data to then execute something arbitrary can possibly happen.
A better answer would be "LTS drivers" that receive security updates (and some compatibility updates) and that does exist, but it's the legacy drivers. e.g. 30x.xx for geforce 6/7 hardware.

Thought experiment : what if Microsoft had done a linux based version of Windows? (ignoring Metro/RT/Windows 10). You sort of have that with Wine. MS would make its own similar implementation, port or create a new graphical stack (no X11), add customizations to the linux kernel, use Windows Update as a "package manager", get Microsoft Internet Explorer to run, get strong and long term driver support from hardware manufacturers, have a sudo that only requires to click "Yes".

Then everyone would target it and it'd be as bad as before.
Not sure if desktop linux (GNU/linux) is that better, or if it's just a combination of low use and fragmentation. But it's clearly not the same OS as Android or the thought-experiment "Windows/Linux".

People use the browser as a music player now.

From comments in TFA's page, the update for Tegra Note 7 has been released simultaneously as this one.

I wonder if it's even due to finding out Android 5.0 sucked, and they didn't want to inflict it on you. Or just greed, lack of budget.

Sadly as it is, they upgrading the OS on a mobile product from 2013 puts them on a short list of brands updating their crap.

These computers don't have encryption, networking, security, html standards, online services, youtube API or even drivers to worry about.

With all these issues, a computer "appliance" from the 2000s can be rendered useless, hell you might have more chance using a PC from 1991 to browse the web with a reasonably recent DOS version of Lynx (albeit without many features)