Why? I have no context.

It is designed to be stable in spite of being regularly updated.

The actual fuck.

I use openSUSE. Zypper is a PITA compared to pacman.

Document intentions and decisions, not code.

Yeah it's because they ship the same OS image for everyone, be it US on a carrier plan or otherwise. Google services has complete control over your device (more than just locking it down), and that's what you should be upset about. For you that app is just harmless bloat, what's actually spooky is google play services as a system app. Do yourself a favor and install grapheneOS.

What you need to do is clean the dust off of your fans and ventilation filters (check guides or figure it as you go, but make sure to disconnect the battery and the fans from the mobo as soon as you open it). Then, repaste it with good thermal paste or some . I have liquid metal (thermal grizzly condoctonaut) on both of my laptops, and one of them which had overheated since day one, doesn't anymore.

I have a second-hand Thinkpad T480s that I love, I bought it for 250$ on ebay and replaced its battery because it was fried (+40$). I use it for school and it works flawlessly, around 8h of battery life in a well-configured OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. According to the specs sheet it shouldn't be, but for some reason it is noticeably lighter than a friend of mine's MacBook Air 2021.

What I really love about it is the ThinkDock Ultra (iirc 30$ on ebay), which lets me place the laptop on my table, and by just sliding a piece of plastic, it connects all of my peripherals in a second. I love this laptop so much that I'll use it until it dies so hard that it can't be fixed at all.

Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I'm here.

A publicly traded company is legally obligated to be evil.

That's only the ones you're aware of.

You're not really changing anything, you're adding functionalities. Also, it appears that apple has limited their capabilities and doesn't even recommend them anymore, so it wouldn't be crazy if they just deprecated them in favor of system extensions, which sadly they don't call sexts. On the surface, kexts appear to be basically userland ioctls, which you have on windows too.