a baby bought entirely with bitcoin

I'm sure the kid will appreciate having been "bought".

The main issue I've had on BlueSky is that the people who I followed on Twitter and who also have BlueSky accounts do not update their BlueSky feeds as regularly. But it does seem like that situation is slowly improving.

How about when you beat a police officer with an American flag while that officer is enforcing American laws in America's capitol - is that rebellion and/or insurrection?

I do that quite regularly... and sometimes it's even intentional!

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.