As an Apple-hater I totally agree with your sentiment, but right now I'm posting this from Firefox on Arch Linux on a MacBook Pro.
Difficult to agree with the content of your post is with this fact to hand.
I have a couple of PinePhones, a Pixel with GrapheneOS, my daily driver is a OnePlus 7 series with LineageOS on it, just for the topic.
The USB-C connectors wears out too fast. People at work suffers this problem and have to replace their computers prematurely since it's on the motherboard.
My solution is magnetic dongles. They work on most things, and where they don't I just use a straight cable carefully. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EuKA...
extremely amusing
My thesaurus says the word you're looking for is "ironic".
In the UK UBER is classed as a Private Hire cab company and their drivers have to go through the same tests as any cab driver. UBER were refused a renewal of their licence to operate in York back in December because of the massive data breach and how they kept it quiet instead of being open about it, and the number of complaints.
On the 14th of March they dropped the appeal against this decision
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.