I had the same experience. Ted Lasso was OK, but after that there was literally nothing else...

Well, there is https://necunos.com/

Yes, a truly horrible piece of hardware. I've vowed never to buy anything that has Broadcom in it.

Maybe we should have some kind of coffee party to stop this happening...

"It does not count where you come from, if you are in another country, they cannot show you anything which is only licensed in your home country and not in the country you are watching from."

And therein lies the idiocy of the approach. Attempting excessive monetisation of a product will eventually result in people refusing to purchase it. Especially if your product is a bunch of bits.

"modern media from the 1800s forward seem to have shrinking lifetimes"

I don't recall having any issues reading Shakespeare, Dumas or Dickens.

Desktops.

Most of my machines have ended up being Thinkpads (T61, X220, T440p, et al.). I also have a XMG P406.

All machines run Arch Linux with a choice of Gnome, KDE, IceWM, OpenBox, Fluxbox. The machine is use daily also has Deepin, WindowMaker, Awesome, i3 and Blackbox.

My preferred text editor is Kate and browser is Firefox or Seamonkey.

But my notes are on my local machine and not in "the cloud."

Having used both for an extended period of time, I've decided Zim works better for me.

Good point, but the Google phones comes with non-replaceable batteries and no SD card slots.

Of course, this works well as long as the site is going to still be online in 5 (10? or 20?) years time and still have the same URL structure.

It's all about the merchandising...

It's come a long way and the current incarnation is robust, intuitive and quite pleasing on the eye.

Just reformat the hard disk and install Linux. Job done.

This is the exact scenario where you end up with people still using XP machines and IE6 (seen just last week).