That facetious quote was accurately summarizing the hypocrisy of your comments above.

Who exactly do you think is ultimately responsible for those business practices you dislike if not the chief executive who you are saying is "impressive"?

I don't like their business practices, but the practices of their business were impressive!

As others have pointed out, touch has it's uses. For most people, probably not needed and maybe more of an active annoyance anyhow.

However, my Framework 12 foldable laptop with touch is extremely handy for my purposes. I intentionally purchased it over the larger/better Framework 13 because I need a touchscreen for work and I wanted it to be foldable to sit on cramped flat surfaces more easily.

I often work as a lighting technician supporting live DJs, and despite the venue having it's own touch screens, it's absolutely clutch to be able to bring my own and either use my lighting software or remote desktop to control the venue's lighting panels. Sometimes the venue will have panels that are unfortunately positioned or simply uncomfortably far away from the DJ's mixer. The mixer displays a waveform I need to be looking at to do effective lighting. Being able to have my touchscreen laptop there so I can touch the lighting cues as needed is crucial.

I've really never understood all the Wesley hate. Most of the "annoying" scenes he was in were annoying because of how the adults treated him, not how he was acting.

Maybe having multiple people (one being his own mother) yell at a kid to "shut up" when he's trying to warn them about danger isn't the best way to cultivate a well adjusted personality. Despite being variously ignored, gaslit, and verbally abused by adults in season 1, he turns out to be a decent guy anyway.

It's not necessary for LibreOffice to fully replicate every nuance of MS Office to be valuable to people who aren't just those who "would be Linux users anyhow."

Especially for the light users of MS Office, which are the vast majority. They just need something to create Aunt Bobbie's birthday invitation, and they won't care at all whether that thing is MS Office or LibreOffice.

As an anecdote, I'm the IT person at my job. I quietly removed MS Office from a shared PC used by dozens of people. I installed LibreOffice instead, and selected the ribbon UI option. Months later now, and literally nobody has complained or even remarked on it, despite using it every day for their document work. There has not yet been a single instance of anyone contacting me for tech support about it.

I suppose the word "boomer" has changed meaning very quickly. It rarely gets used anymore to refer to actual boomers (people born just after WW2) and instead now can refer either vaguely to anyone older than 30, or anyone with an antiquated/problematic notion of social norms.

To be fair, that original meaning is illogical (as in, the meaning doesn't follow from the literal words used), so it's not surprising that people misused it to have a more logical meaning.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon fits here.

While it does technically have a sequel (which is a prequel, if I remember correctly) set in the same universe, the first book is a complete story unto itself.

The world feels vast and detailed, and the characters are satisfying. Samantha Shannon's prose is great as well. Highly enjoyable book!

Yeah the bottom housing of my Framework 12 laptop developed spiderweb cracks in it after only 3 months. I'm the most careful person I know with my electronics, so it's not because I'm abusing it or anything.

Framework is dragging their feet on a warranty claim too, which is frustrating since a new bottom housing replacement is only like $60. I really love the concept of Framework, but so far I'm not impressed with their durability or support.

The old Dell XPS laptop that I had before this is 13 years old and still in great condition despite being too slow for my work needs now.

There's no need to be an ass about it. I didn't say this is definitely slop, but it is unsurprising that people think it is. I don't think it's without merit to wonder if someone committing 12 million lines of code within a few weeks is using AI.

I think it's more-or-less accurate to say that it's "just a single developer".

While it's technically true that more than one developer has committed code, the comically overwhelming vast majority of commits were made by a single developer and a battery of automated tools. If we exclude those bots (at least, the obvious ones), then the remaining maybe-human contributors have been responsible for less than 0.2% of the total codebase.

Source: did some math on numbers from their github repository stats.

12m lines of code committed in the last 3 months (the bulk of that within the last month) by one committer doesn't exactly scream human input.