I've been an Arch user for more than a decade and I'll usually be first in line to defend it from dodgy claims about unreliability.

But that forum response is bizarre. Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware). VLC is an officially supported package, and surely this change would impact almost every VLC user?

New opt-depends is a nice pacman feature, but it hardly implies that things have been removed from the base package.

I really hope this doesn't impact the client too significantly. A substantial part of why I use Thunderbird is to keep out of these "ecosystems".

Bit of an interesting contrast with Amazon, who encourages leaking

Radeon Open Compute Mplatform

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

'Dare To Play’ demonstrates McDonald’s continued commitment to pushing the boundaries of customer engagement through immersive, cross-platform experiences.

Was this article written by the McDonald's marketing department?

(Possibly hollow)

How about MNT Reform or it's Pocket little brother?

They get you

• Full mechanical keyboards, ortholinear if you're into that
• Modern components
• HIGHLY modular and repairable - their main thrust is making messing with your internals accessible
• No sticky goo coating
• Cyberdeck aesthetics (esp the Pocket reform)

They do NOT get you

• Low price - you didn't mention a budget constraint
• Thin. They are chunky kids, though certainly the Pocket reform has a reasonably portable profile

Scrum that's not adapted to your needs isn't scrum.

It's amazing to watch the old, rusted machine of antitrust slowly grinding back to life, bit by bit.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing's results

Probably to get some other benefitof the PR system, such as CI tests