corylulu

For the same reason antitrust laws exist. Monopolies need to be prevented to maintain a healthy economy.

Or lost their wallet/password

Quarters are too ingrained into things to get rid of them. So many things take quarters. And your base unit coin needs to be divisible by the rest. So we can't get rid of the nickel without also eliminating the dime... because we aren't replacing quarters.

I work in the same industry, and will say you don't need to max out every component on a PC for real-time graphics peak performance. Yeah, you might need to max out a few parts, but not every part.

What I'd contest on this is the fact that almost nobody needs best in spec in every category... Yeah, building the exact spec might not be cheaper, but it's also not what's needed to match the performance in any 1 or more particular use case.

Also, nothing will every justify a $1k monitor desk mount.

Yeah, should definitely be done with a XHR/Fetch call. Honestly, I would love if it updated through a websocket considering it's lower latency and can update far more often without the need for expensive HTTPS calls or a reliance on internal clocks.

Your email isn't revealed to the site, so it's privacy from the site you are signing into. Although I'm sure they are still requesting basic info like name and potentially age.

Yeah, I have the same setup for my self-hosted server. It's only a pain when I don't save the login info and need to go dig it up (or if I'm on mobile). If only I could make a custom "Sign in with" button on every site that tracked all that for me, while remaining self hosted, I'd be in heaven.

Well, as is any online service. I think the idea is the site you sign up with doesn't know your actual email address.

If you signed in the Apple, it would be through Apple's recovery process.