Because you’re using an external device to extend the capabilities of the port. It can’t do that without the dock, so now you have two things to carry around.

If you look at the comments on this, there are two distinct camps of people who will never agree: those who expect their laptop to be a self-contained unit that doesn’t require anything that wasn’t packaged with it to meet common use cases (which requires more ports), and those who are okay with docks and dongles and adaptors.

By the time the ecosystem has “caught up”, we’ll have USB-D ports to contend with. Possibly even USB-E.

Exactly. The combination of “bank” and “startup” is innately terrifying. Don’t put more money than you can afford to lose in a place like that.

(Aren’t there any laws in the US regarding who can call themselves a bank? Or is this another case of Americans being unwilling to do something sane and obvious because some politician has convinced them it will infringe on their “freedom”?)

I’d rather have nice sharp jaggies. Antialiasing tends to give me the impression that someone’s smeared my screen with Vaseline.

I acknowledge that this is a minority preference, and the algorithms involved in antialiasing are interesting even if I don’t like the product.

And whoever buys it won’t also have some kind of ulterior motive? Chrome isn’t likely to be a money-maker on its own. If it were, Firefox would have less trouble staying afloat. Anyone who buys Chrome most likely will have plans for it that are no more in the end-user’s best interest than Google’s.

All browsers using Google’s Blink engine are distasteful. Vivaldi is less bad than most, despite being closed-source, but to echo many here, you’re better off with almost any Firefox derivative. Libre Wolf has a good rep. I use Pale Moon, but its old-fashioned interface isn’t for everyone.

Depends on how much effort the average scammer puts into remembering the prospective victims that don’t bite. My guess is that they don’t waste too many brain cells on that.

The problem isn’t that it didn’t. The problem is that anyone thought that it should have.

It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn’t free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

Hmmm. I wonder who is making so much money off this that the project is willing to push them into forking it . . . ?