haltandsleep

I bought my Mac the first month they appeared in 1984. I won't bother you with the ensuing history, but I will raise a question related to it:

I remember when Apple could not offer a retail OS, not without cannibalizing hardware sales. If Pro desktops fade, is that still true for that segment? Or could they offer something Xeon only (to keep out commodity laptops) as a legal Hackintosh? Or do certified configurations a la Oculus? If their profit is in mobile, and cloud services, it might help more than hurt.

FWIW I like Debian now, and the non-intrusive UI.

I think you had to be pretty dialed-in to daily news to get the "fake news" origin story, and then how it turned to be something else.

In the beginning there were articles and there was fact-checking. Specific articles that failed checks (failed QA) were fake. A rush of those in 2016 were found to be for-clicks and for-profit.

One might have really hoped that more checking (better QA) would come out of that, but perversely the opposite happened. "Fake news" became a blanket condemnation not just for unchecked stories, but often unread ones. "The headline says that? Fake news!"

This is kind of a critical juncture, but I worry that it is becoming a wrong turn.