A company screws up and ruins itself, and the government concerns itself with the PEOPLE who will be screwed by the irresponsible actions of an unaccountable company, instead of socializing the company's losses and leaving the tenants to fend for themselves?
I still have a headhunting agency who refers to me as "B42857". Apparently some bug is getting emails to me addressed to their internal reference number.
The real vibe of the 90s wasn't some idea of perfection - there were still injustices and problems everywhere - it was that most people believed and saw evidence that every part of life was getting BETTER. When you saw a problem or injustice, you could actually believe, with good evidence, that that problem was only a couple decades away from being dealt with and gone. The faith that human ingenuity was supreme and we were all more or less on the same "ever upward" trajectory was incredible. We're probably centuries away from anything like that again, and it's devastating.
You paid absolutely ZERO attention to the comment Ach made.
Your situation today is NOT guaranteed to be your situation tomorrow. You can afford kids today and get hit by a bus tomorrow, and now you can't. Don't pretend to be so thick you don't understand how circumstances can change beyond one's control.
In many cases that accessibility is a full-on neutered replacement for a previous system that offered more user control and customizability, removing options from power users, so one man's progress is another man's step backwards.
Repairability isn't about the physical realities of executing the repair - that's a user end problem to be solved and people are often eager to tackle those.
It's about the manufacturer not being allowed to explicitly make design decisions that make it intentionally harder to do so than is strictly necessary as a side effect of the basic design.
Who would make this "default" Linux? Who would be in charge of it? What power would they have over directing development of the kernel? What happens when this centralization that's so important to soothing the confusion of people who aren't even using the OS yet inevitably causes it to enshitify and brings us right back to the Windows problem?
No, I'm sorry - there may be some things that would make Linux more palatable to non-techies, but this just recreates the Windows problem again. The same dichotomy that's been at play for the past 30 years is still at play - you can have it easy or you can have freedom and control, but you can't have both.
Yes, please do.
Tank what few remaining sales of your garbage cars are left, asshole.