I find that very hard to believe. While it is less common nowadays, many, if not most, mailing list and forum software sent passwords in plaintext in emails.
A lot of cottage industry web apps also did the same.
Back when I was still in school, I ran a few tests on real world LISP and Java (the then dominant language, this was in the late days of Sun Microsystems succes).
Turns out most LISP programs had fewer parentheses then Java had braces, parens and brackets.
Exactly this. I was an Emacs user for over a decade but was so frustrated with having to maintain my setup, and different plugins not cleanly cooperating etc. Not to mention the fact that some plugins liked to block the entire UI.
I switched to Helix precisely because of the sane defaults and integrated LSP. It meant I could just install the AppImage and get going, searching the docs for default keybindings whenever I got stuck, etc.
High customizability and extensibility can be a double edged sword.
It's hard to supress the automatic Internet zombie inside of me sometimes. I'd be waiting in line at the bakery, or sitting in the sofa and just out of habit open up an app.
My social media apps are web based though, so reinstalling is really easy and I'm still logged in when I do.
Prior to reddit imploding, I used a parental control app to lock myself out of my reddit and youtube apps on race days.
Well, if your mac address changes every time you connect to a different network, Unity would be detecting and billing for a lot of false positives, so it would be a bad method to identify unique devices.
Except iOS will randomize its mac adress at each boot / after a while to prevent users being tracked by rogue WiFi networks, which is actually a thing being used to track consumers in commercial spaces etc. So that wouldn't work.
I mostly use Sway (which is Wayland based) but also have Gnome and LXDE installed. I use one of those with X11 when I need to screenshare, because I can't make that work on wayland. No real issues besides them having each others apps in their launcher menus.
I used to own a Libretto just like the one on the image. Ran OpenBSD on it a while. Those machines were ridiculously fun. They had this little trackpoint style pointer on the right of the screen to use it in handheld mode. Truly ahead of their time.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. Mozilla, for all it's flaws, has been our first and only line of defense for an open web for so long.
Afaik you can get an Apple TV app and subscription on Android, Android TV, and from your browser. Never tried the service myself though.