It is annoying when parts designed to be replaced have to be included with the purchase. Why not an option to purchase the computer with no drives? The most extreme example was Dell, et al, not allowing a desktop/tower purchase without a FDD, keyboard, and mouse. Go to any ewaste collector and you'll discover something like 100x ratio of [FDD,keyboard,mouse] to (tower+desktop).

My weak understanding of OPAL is that it is some OS-like thing performing encryption/decryption on the drive, itself. If I understand that correctly, what do you use?

Text-per-inch theoretically would be the same in both cases. However, you should actually experience increased text-per-inch, reduced eye strain, and reduced fatigue.

If someone like System76 wants me to purchase one of their computers, they need to offer increased resolution.

Their site is only loading scripts from half a dozen or so domains. It's not bad; maybe they can get that up to at least several dozen like the larger laptop makers, but they are certainly on their way.

Perhaps the full implementation of promotions based on personal beliefs instead of a meritocracy doesn't actually work at creating an organization that creates innovative products.

They think we are stupid.

They have the Federal Reserve to sell their bonds to.

Do you like paying $2000 for a TV?
Do you have a tablet?
Do you prefer HDDs?
I'm also betting if you were diagnosed with cancer, you would strongly prefer technologies newer than 13 years old.

Now they can go to the actual private sector to engineer and manufacture things that actually make our lives better.

Let the editors of the article sort it out. That was the whole wiki thing.

Theoretically, but in practice it results in tribalism as papers will be "interpreted" by current experts and propaganda as journalists tell the plebs how to think about the findings.

They require now secondary sources and a research paper is primary:

Articles should rely on secondary sources whenever possible. For example, a paper reviewing existing research, a review article, monograph, or textbook is often better than a primary research paper. When relying on primary sources, extreme caution is advised. Wikipedians should never interpret the content of primary sources for themselves (see Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view).

I can't grab and pull the document like I could when I first opened a PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader in like 1997. Since 16:9 is the final evolution of display ratios, display the document in either a new window with zero window header or get rid of window header in the tab with the document as the FF window header uses >10% of available vertical screen space which really matters with 8-1/2"x11" documents, which is pretty much all of the PDFs I download. Among the first things I do on a new install is configure FF to default download PDFs so I don't have to deal with their lame college freshman's PDF reader "app". I hope they don't break that configuration option with this update.

I find eBay more reliable than Amazon. Amazon attempts to obscure who I'm buying from, while eBay features who I buying from.