Why would ending sata ssd production create price pressure for m2 ssds? If anything, they should be able to produce more of those.

Running your own SMTP is still going to be tough. But you can use a mail provider that lets you use your own domain, then you can use their SMTP which should not get flagged as easily.

I just read it as b

Tesla has sold 7 million and something cars in total according to google. If each of those was 100k, that would still be less than a trillion in total. How could one guy get paid more than the whole company ever made?

Fair point. But I can also see why people don’t want to call it by the name the current owner wants you to use.

Not justifying it, something that I paid for should not show ads. But there isn’t a current mainstream console that doesn’t have ads, so getting it once would still be better than getting it on every boot.

Do you get this once or on every boot?

It’s macbooks so they would be able to run real macos. Since you still chose to install something else, it must mean that this is somehow superior.

This. To many people who “just want to use” a computer, the OS in the background won’t make much of a difference, but linux makes it easier for the one maintaining it.

It’s not, because the x in Linus’ Unix is not referring to the windowing system:

Linux Journal: Is it true that you suggested the name “UNIX” for the long ago OS, Multics? What does that word mean?

Brian Kernighan: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken’s new system, because it was small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can remember who.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035