You aren’t supposed to do serious work over these things. They should be a last resort imo.

Do you have a source for that claim?

This doesn’t feel like something that should happen. Like at all. I don’t want experience repairing stuff. I want stuff not breaking. I know mos tpeople here treat a OS like a hobby, but for most people its a tool.

Thats true, but that sadly won’t help against a state forcing a company to put these things into the silicon. Not saying they do rn, but its a real possibility.

I mean can’t they just audit a version that doesn’t have a backdoor/snoops. Verifying against silicon is probably very hard.

How do you want to verify a RISC core not doing something funny?

Still probably piled there to stop some kind of degradation.

Also its 40 per hour per user

When I look at these patents all of them seem to be patenting others inventions from years ago. So I hope prior art wins.

How do you want to federate Petabytes or even Exabytes of content? And your second sentence leads to a monolithic instance.

I want to see how you can serve thousands or millions of people with a Chromebook in your closet. And if you say p2p, that doesn’t deal with spikes in demand and a lot of old content will just vanish even easier than on YouTube. Also it would rely on people being willing to seed.