The problem is that it is easy to connect even an "anonymous" bank card to the user. If you know when and where I buy stuff and what I buy, then you can pretty easily figure out that I am the owner or user of that card. Once you know where I live and work, that narrows things down pretty tightly. This information is a goldmine for would-be thieves, which is one of may reasons why I prefer to use cash for my daily purchases.

If U haz money.

This. I will never tip for anything in advance of the service being provided. Tips provided in advance are bribes, and I also vary my tip amount based upon the quality of the service. I will tip generously for good service.

No, I have only used the 6. Agreed that it could be a bit smaller. Also, check out the Sonim XP10. This is thicker, with a smaller LCD, but also has a swappable battery and is a ruggedized device.

Look at the Samsung Galaxy Xcover series: swappable battery, ruggedized, SD card, and (on older models) headphone jacks. I've been happy with the Xcover 6 for a couple of years now. It is a great product and the phone that most people should be buying.

Even people who don't upgrade their own stuff benefit by having upgradable devices. They can hire the 12-year-old down the street to do upgrades or repairs, take the device to Best Buy or Micro Center, or ask a family member or friend to do it. All of these options beat throwing away the entire device and buying a new one because the user needs more RAM or had RAM that went bad.

Credit scores top out at 850. There is no way your FICO score is 888.

Same. We weren't allowed to have portable radios or tape recorders in school. When portable CD players were starting to become popular, those were banned, too.

This. Plus, using a cell phone during a school shooting event reduces "situational awareness" and takes up cellular network capacity that might be better used by police and medical services to actually reduce the impact of the shooting.

Kodak is the only manufacturer of color motion-picture film in the world. Fuji used to be in that business, but exited it about a dozen years ago. I don't know if they ever made 65mm or 70mm film.

The Fn and Ctrl keys can be swapped in BIOS (and they actually swapped them on the latest keyboards, so those of us who are used to the old layout need to swap them back). The old keyboard that had the Fn key to the left of Ctrl followed the original standard (an actual written standard) for laptop keyboards. The version with the Ctrl key to the left of Fn is a corruption, which somehow became more popular among laptop manufacturers. As a Thinkpad user, I don't get the popularity of Apple's laptops. I hate the keyboards and the buttonless touchpads (both of which are subjective, admittedly). I hate that they are basically unrepairable. I hate that the default LCD is glossy (I realize that they offer a matte option now). I hate that RAM and storage are not upgradable. I hate the limited port selection. I don't like the prices. Mac laptops only really win in three areas: battery life, LCD quality (resolution and color accuracy), and loudspeaker quality. If you actually need any of those three things, then you need a Mac. For everyone else, there are better options.

I refuse to buy laptops without physical mouse buttons. I prefer the Thinkpad pointing stick, but can live with a touch pad that has physical buttons. I'm not sure why the bulk of the laptop industry decided that buttons were unnecessary, but it's a terrible move. At least Lenovo has kept them (3, even!)...for now.

This, and make it a standard (non-chiclet) keyboard design. Make it optional, and I'll pay extra for it.

The current ones are actually still pretty solid, as long as you stick to the P, X, and T series. The biggest step backwards has been in keyboards, ever since they went to the 6-row chiclet design, then to the 1.5mm low-travel version. Make the damn thing 2-3mm thicker and give me back the non-chiclet 7-row keyboard, please. The annoying thing is that they are still better than the competition (with the understanding that all laptops are compromised and suck to varying degrees).

The problem with Windows on ARM is that, for now, it has exactly one selling point (better battery life on laptops) and lots of disadvantages. The product line is incomplete (no desktops, no GPU machines, everything has soldered RAM), and the future of MS support for Windows on ARM is an open question. I could see the laptops becoming popular with Linux users if the hardware were fully supported, but it isn't. The whole thing is kind of a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, Lunar Lake exists for laptop users who care about battery life, and there are brute-force methods (larger batteries) that work as well.