Usually not but your whole activity in this thread reads like you're just hating on Linux for some reason: "too diverse!" "it destroyed my ssd!" (which I doubt). In that context your claim to have been a user just looks like a half-truth to give yourself some credibility.
Anyway, back to the actual topic: I don't care about mass-adoption. Everything turns to shit when the masses pour over it. In my opinion, Lemmy has reached the critical amount of contributors to get it going, except more actual scientists maybe.
I won't nitpick how Linux is a kernel not an OS but how is it not widespread? It just runs basically the whole internet...
The reasons the average Joe doesn't use it for their desktop are convenience (Windows and macOS come pre-installed) and that you can run into technical issues due to bad support by hardware vendors. The latter is a chicken/egg problem and will possibly never be resolved.
Anyway, I disagree it's due to the number of choices - we don't need monopolies. Your grocery store is full of different brands of cheese and all of them still stay in business.
Then it's not for you. No shame in that. I don't understand the notion that everyone is supposed to be a coder now.
If anything, the low-level coding part is something AI models may well make obsolete relatively soon. Unlike any craftsmanship - why not learn masonry or carpentry instead?
The author comments to the blog post you linked and it partially makes sense: if you fetch the developer's certificate, Apple knows when you started an application of that developer (and which public IP address you have).
Whether or not there are many devs that only made one application, so you can identify this, I cannot estimate, I'm not an Apple user. But you don't need to send a hash calculated in client side to get this info.
While this is far more elaborate, I agree it's the best approach if the other person is willing to have a discussion.
You may sprinkle it with actual examples of what's happening in China with their point system: not getting bus tickets or loan grants or whatever because you not even mentioned something critical somewhere but are associated with someone how did.
They may say it's unrealistic but 30 years ago Eastern Germany was the same. They just lacked the tech and needed to recruit regular people as spies.
I like pacman too but I will probably never get comfortable with its arguments. It's worse than tar which has already become a meme. apt is more intuitive to use.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or serious. I've been using computers for decades and not once adjusted fan speeds, so that function doesn't seem very basic to me.
Poor Windows NT.