Generally to keep the ones you have. Most people don't like job-hunting, so giving them a little perk here or there can tip the balance from 'leave' to 'remain'.

Yep. Now Gen X gets to explain to their parents how useless this is. Fortunately they also have some experience telling their children the same thing.

No, no I don't. All what things?

I do remember a boatload of things that were called truth at the time, but turned out not to be.

Nope, that's way too much effort for Samsung. They just abandon them and leave them to rot at your house. They only brick them to make a point publicly.

Yeah, it is. Up until the point where your VPN disconnects and systemd-resolved FORGETS EVERYTHING. I have to re-setup the split-horizon DNS resolvers EVERY SINGLE TIME I connect my VPN. I also hate how it randomly segfaults after about 16-26 hours, taking NetworkManager with it and I have to restart everything.

Until they call you in for an important meeting last-minute but you're 12 hours away...

Why would they want to do that? You won't be as likely to panic and buy their "virus scanner" if you can more easily kill and remove the malware.

BTW, disguising malware as common program names is an OLD trick. I worked at a large hosting provider about a decade ago and I found two to six trojans per day masquerading as things we never installed on our servers, or system utilities running from non-system directories.

[citation needed] From all the DMCA news I've ever seen over the last 23 years, "knowingly" has been interpreted extremely narrowly. As far as I've ever heard or been able to search online, no one has ever been censured by a Court for a bogus DMCA take-down. Prove me wrong please.

So this is what it's like when a container achieves sentience...

We already have that with Jabber/XMPP, and with the additional extensions (XEPs) it could rival Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. However no one wanted their IM to work outside their garden. GTalk and others used to work, but those were killed over time. Hell, even Signal doesn't interoperate.

You're right. It DOESN'T matter. Neither does your proposed 'solution' because everyone who isn't happy with the outcome of this election won't be happy with a hand-done-by-virgins recount either.

You're talking about combating a PERCEPTION, not REALITY. There's NO WAY to convince a hyper-partizan that their filtered-perception mental model is not reality. They have spent YEARS (Literally tens of thousands of hours) inside their own echo chambers believing the most ridiculous lies and fantasy stories about how The Other Side(tm) is EVIL(tm). They can and will "reason" their way out of your recount and nothing will get better.

As someone who has voted by mail in the last three Presidential and numerous other elections, I can tell you that these things don't happen in any sort of practical numbers.

"You can have..." indeed.

Cite please.

I live in a state that has been doing postal ballots for many years now and ours are still secret. The envelope has your voter signature on it but the ballot itself has no identifying information, just a list of candidates with fill-in bubbles next to them. As soon as those are separated, there's no way to tell how you voted. If you're worried about it, drop the ballot in a secured drop box at the post office.

Short of roving voter intimidation gangs or an abusive spouse, how does coercion occur with postal ballots?

They don't. They expect you to run Safari. It's a Mac after all.

Plus Electron apps don't care about your mundane human problems anyway.

Was that really a problem though? Every member of my family and friend group, technical and otherwise, had no problem plugging in a micro-USB cable. None even complained about it. It was good for exactly one meme about a "superposition" in the USB connector. Now I get complaints about having to replace all their USB cables and/or carry extra cables because half of their devices use USB-C and half use micro-USB.