We're leaping boldly into the future... moving the entire system to 100MB Zip Disks!

Just FYI - Linux Mint installed and ran wonderfully on my 2015 MacBook Pro. Anything that predates the T2 chip should be easy to install Linux on (and it's possible for the T2 models as well).

This is true. but older Macs falling off the "supported" list is not exactly a new phenomenon - it's always been a somewhat arbitrary distinction (as OLP, and before that dosdude1's patchers, helped people overcome).

But the architecture change obviously raised an insurmountable cliff in this regard. I can't say I'll be throwing out my 2020 Intel MBP because of it, though... at least assuming Firefox continues to support it for a while.

Magic 8-Ball seyz: "Signs point to Yes"

The T2 chip makes installing a vanilla Linux distribution on Macs somewhat more problematic - but I've found that T2 Mint works pretty well out of the box.

The only issue I've had is with waking the machine from sleep at times. I haven't put much work into getting that sorted, yet, but I'm sure it's doable. Regardless, a cold boot is quite zippy.

Apple provides security updates for the three most-recent major releases of macOS. So, as long as Tahoe continues to get patches, Intel Macs will continue to be supported.

Bakers use the same treatment for less-than-satisfactory cakes.

Hmm... where have I heard that before?

My title is Linux Systems Administrator, but much of the time I feel like it's Professional Puzzle Solver*. Does that count?

*although most of the time I feel more like it's either Nagger In Chief or Everybody's Gofer.

Inexplicably, some people actually do...

I had to check what decade this was from. Residential proxies have been a thing long before even data centre proxies became a thing. There's a ton of companies offering this service: https://residentialproxyreview... There's both ethical and unethical types of residential proxies, the ethical ones typically pay people $20 a month or so to run a proxy server in their home through companies like HoneyGain. Unethical proxies might be installed with spyware and other unwanted apps.

that spends 75% of its total runtime time talking about innovations in Genmoji!

You heard it here, first!

Intel *do* have an interest in Risc-V - at one point they were investing in Horse Creek and exploring plans to acquire SiFive.

But given their 'core focus' announcements of the past few months, no side project on another architecture is going to pass muster, so it may well be that Intel management encouraged the spin off startup.

Going back to something akin to Horse Creek, what would be a likely scenario is if Ahead used their contacts within Intel to fab their designs on a compute-module form factor that could be plugged in as a daughter card to an otherwise Intel setup where the erstwhile parent company already provided assorted upstream Linux drivers for ethernet, wifi, and GPU.

This is a Trump appointee. So, the first question needs to be - does he even have any particular knowledge of the area for which he's supposedly the president's advisor, or is he another McMahon?

And, given the topic, the second question should be - does he even have any particular knowledge about macroeconomics?

And, even if the answer to either of these questions is not "no"... why waste your time asking a Trump appointee a question for which we already know their answer? This administration exists solely for the purpose of transferring as much wealth from everyone who's not super-rich to the super-rich.

Frankly, perhaps the biggest problem with Apple Notes is that its export functionality is rather crude ...

With most of Apple's offerings (not just Notes), I think the biggest problem is just how far behind everyone else they are with regards to sharing. It took forever for them to add the ability to share *at all*, and even now the functionality seems like it was bolted on in a half-assed manner.