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I mean it makes sense for error reporting. Lots of apps automatically report errors so that they can be detected easily, which would require internet access.

You can use sailboats if you want, no one is stopping you

Yeah I agree, when old people have trouble using an iPhone which is one of the simplest OSs to use, there's no way that they can use Linux, yes it's good but it's not as simple to use as an iPhone. And they can get help with their iPhone from anyone, or at the Apple store, there's no Linux store they can get help from.

1 is just not true sorry. There's loads of stuff that only work as root and people use them.

About the trust issue. There's no more or less trust than running on bare metal. Sure you could compile everything from source but you probably won't, and you might trust your distro package manager, but that still has a similar problem.

Air tag pro, in our newly invented color "basically black"

Hell yeah

Video games are just complicated save file editors

I use a k8s Cron job to execute backups with Kopia. The manifest is here

Yeah, no one actually cares. Just look at phones, people don't actually stop using them when they aren't supported and don't care as long as it keeps working.

Why not use something like rclone to download your stuff?