Remember Canonical solely exists because Debian was not new-user friendly.
Things are different now.

Other distros thrive where Canonical has no interest as Canonical thrives where Debian took no interest.
Specialization is easy with Linux.

Slashdot ceased to be one long ago.

That's a gross exaggeration.

Smoking kills ~480,000 yearly in the US alone. That's more than the ~420,000 killed by WWII.

Booze kills ~ 178,000. That's more per year than the Korean and Viet Nam wars combined. It's more than the TOTAL combat losses in all post-WWII US wars.

The masses were always stupid. Social media merely shows the rest of us what they're really like.

That would be a boon for tech literacy.

Forbid more. It builds curiosity.

Crash repair is completely disregarded by modern automotive designers because they don't want damaged vehicles returned to service. Mechanic of many decades here. All paint deteriorates so the more complex the coating the more difficult to correct for age.

That means more full paint jobs required which easily puts many vehicles "beyond economic repair".

Automakers know Americans given the choice between blowing a burning bobcat and and consumer protection would be covered in scratches and shit.

Many owners don't scrap replaced routers but sell them instead for next to nothing. Many of those are supported by OpenWrt, FreshTomato, OPNsense etc. Even if you replace an EOL router you can flash your previous hardware as a ready spare or do other useful tasks with it

For example I was satisfied by my old Netgear R6700v3 but bought a new GL-MT6000 out of curiosity, then flashed the Netgear with FreshTomato have a ready spare on the wall next to it. The only hassle was the buggy stock Netgear firmware demanded multiple login attempts which FreshTomato solved nicely.

You can go DIY with a wide variety of hardware including formerly expensive EOL network appliances, industrial PCs, used or new tiny form factor desktops and thin clients.

Rolling your own router/appliance has been easy since the single-floppy Linux router era at the turn of the century. Those enabled tasks like sharing my dialup connection using an old P75 with a Linux-compatible "hardware" modem before "Winmodems" were supported.

Expensive meat puppets are not required to entertain. The video game business is already bigger than Hollywood and unlike push content is interactive.

Tech will catch up to then pass meatbag limitations. Those not wanting AI are free to skip it. It's mere entertainment, just kitsch and nothing sacred.

Uncle Sugar bought the Zip drives I used at work where I learnt to dislike their meh relaiblity.

For myself I didn't bother with them since I found their high failure rate and media price annoying. I bought a parallel port HP CD burner instead whose drive lasted me many years. (I always burn CD/DVD at slowest speed available for best burn, proven while distrohopping and various live DOS and BartPE discs. Fre trial CDRWIN etc were limited to 1x which was ideal.)

The Zip and early writeable CD eras largely overlapped

Security weakness is not consent to intrusion.

He's an adult criminal, not a child. He chose his fate.

Americans don't want manufacturing jobs for themselves, they want some poor shmuck to take those jobs so they feel affirmed. I can't blame anyone for pulling that off because manufacturing workers are viewed as expendable drones in the US.

Management and labor in the US are historic enemies for good reasons. Lest we forget the objective of employment is eventual retirement while doing as little as possible so you destroy less of your body. The objective of management is maintaining ones escape from labor.

Pinoys and Pinays are working globally because their homeland lacks opportunity. Many of them join the US armed forces where they make excellent troops who are enthusiastic and chill to work with. I never had to discipline one in my USAF career, which I cannot say for home-grown shitbags. They make excellent Merchant Marine and US Navy sailors, jobs few USians want.