This is brilliant! So few people get that. Also, polititians love to claim than public investments lead to inflation because of increasing state “dept”. This has been disproven and you’ll hardly find a serious economist claiming it since it’s much more complex than that and depends on the kind of investment and political rules of course. But by claiming this, the public seems even more dependant on the extremely rich, because they are the only ones capable of investing (and thus earning). And it’s a great argument for cutting any kind of social service. I think biden is a positive exception at the moment when it comes to this principle, but here in germany it is disastrous what the government does (and especially doesn’t do) because of austerity that is proven to be harmful so many times just to keep up this lie about inflation and public dept that our children would have to pay back (bullshit!).

All bluetooth headphones should work.

Yes, the linux kernel will work! I’d say it’s even more likely that wifi, soundcard, etc. work without any problems than if you’d buy a bleeding edge laptop (although these mostly also just work nowadays). The oldest machine I’ve got is a laptop from 12 years ago which easily runs modern linux, but even much older machines shouldn’t have a problem with that, at least not with the kernel.

PHP is a shit language, but far from dead. There are too many legacy killer apps that are used A LOT and won’t be rewritten in a different language anytime soon. E.g. Wordpress, Mediawiki (The engine behind wikipedia and other wikis), Nextcloud, Typo3, …

Yes, I also noticed that, wondering if I’ve read the same issue a second time.

I can’t help you but I just came here to say that I also very much dislike the trend that everything has to look flat. Imho visual, simulated depth (through shadows, gradients, etc.) can make UIs look actually much cleaner, because hierarchy, grouping of elements and differentiation between buttons/text inputs and non-interactive elements is often much more obvious on first sight.

If jetbrains is that much better really depends on the language. Also, jetbrains shit is damn expensive, so not a fair comparison.

Considering what the device on the left is capable of compared to the device on the right, the cable management on the left suddenly looks very elegant and efficient.

Some amount of inflatable tires will always be needed and used. Sure, the vast majority of them are also unnecessary, because most cars are, but humanity will obviously always need some vehicles that transport stuff efficiently without tracks. Bicycle tires also use similar materials.

Plastic straws are still very harmful for many sea animals and are apart from that entirely unnecessary (unlike tires).