A few simple searches and you can easily see this problem is decades old. All I want to do is print some addresses on an envelope and it's like 2 hours to get it to work properly.

IDGAF

Of course, it doesn't matter. Amazon will do whatever it wants, but as a regular and lazy long time customer, they are literally sending me to competitors.

$85 million? This is such a tiny amount of money for the Federal government that it literally costs more money to mention it to the chief executive than it saves.

It's not enshittification if the free market decided this is what's best, right?

Wrong. Most of these companies lose money for an unacceptable amount of time to provide any meaningful return on equity. Stock prices are the exit strategy, and that is inflated really by a loose network of cronies, which is anything but "free".

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.