Oh please, what's our alternative for systemd(icks)? We can switch to BSD, I guess, or Gentoo. That's about it at this point.

6. Unrootable Priv.

I would have purchased it on release day had it simply been rootable. Instead, they bent over backwards to make sure it can NEVER be rootable. Sorry, that's a hard fail for me. If you can't root the phone, you can never properly secure the phone. Relying on a third party for your security is a recipe for disaster.

"Oh noes, we are totally worried about WhatsApp's completely closed-source alleged implementation of encryption that was totally didn't have back-doored from the outset! I sure hope the bad guys don't use it, or we'll be in a world of hurt! The criminals and terri'rsts have already won!"

0/0, FBI.

I know that I have been sitting behind a computer screen for about 30 years of my life, and that now I suffer from chronic back pain. So, at home I switched to a standing desk, and at least on the weekends I have some relief.

I'll stop by in another 30 years and let you know how I've made out.

Neat-o. My (public) high school required it too.

I graduated in 1995.

Color me unimpressed.

I would, yes.

1) Root your phone. If you don't have full control over your device, you have no chance.

2) Install Xposed Framework (http://repo.xposed.info/)

3) Install Xprivacy (http://repo.xposed.info/module/biz.bokhorst.xprivacy)

Xprivacy doesn't block your programs from sending whatever they want to send - if you try to do that, most programs will crash. Instead, it feeds your programs completely false information. Boom, you win.

Is that "Up to" as in, we don't actually KNOW a number?

I actually find that to be the more alarming issue.

No MicroSD is a dealbreaker for me.

No removeable battery is a dealbreaker for me.

These have both flaws. Will not buy, at any pricepoint.

"Incorporating a unibody build, it doesn't look like you'll be able to remove the back cover or battery"

Stopped reading right there - do not want.

Look, you got caught cheating. We get it. I suggest you make the best of it and move on.

Looks like the proliferation of Kickstarter games has started trickling down to related projects.

For example, somebody made meeple pillows (Meepillows) and put them on Kickstarter: The project exceeded its five-figure goal in under three days. And per Kikcktraq, its trending to over $80,000. (https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/faust1138/meepillows-an-assortment-of-colorful-large-plush-m/)

So now we're talking almost six figures worth of demand for game-related pillows, which leads me to think there may be six-figure demand for other game-related projects as well. Would other pillow projects bring in six figures? Maybe at this point they would!

After I saw Windows 8 I was done with Windows.

I now use Manjaro Linux as my primary OS, and I keep Windows 7 on a second drive to dual-boot, because muh gaymes. But once they release The Witcher 3 for Linux I probably won't even need the Windows partition for the next several months.

Oh sure, because THAT'S convenient to remember.

"When Linux kernel 4.1 is released, it will become the LTS version of 2015 and the most advanced long-term support release."

But... it HAS been released. I'm using it. Right now. As I type this.