PeterX wrote:
Unfortunately people around me do not pay much attention to software freedom and user rights. They take data espionage and Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft market dominance as a natural, unavoidable thing.
Don't you worry, they will care. One of these days their credit card data will get leaked in one of the data breaches (that are so frequent and unavoidable lately), and when their bank accounts get wiped out as a result, then they will care. They just have to learn that the hard way. We have a saying, something like "a wise man can learn from other's mistakes, while stupid people must learn the hard way from their own mistakes".
Btw, there's a good reason why people are revolting all around the world. Thanks to the COVID, they have realized how incompetent their greedy, privacy-violating governments are. Maybe they don't care about user rights, but as long as people realize that they cannot provide a better life for their children as theirs, they will revolt. This is how it always had been, and how it's always gonna be; no fake news, no propaganda nor false ideology can change that. All living things want to protect their young, human nature is not an exception.
Seahorse wrote:
Maybe modern OSDev should focus more on adapting to older, simpler hardware
Age of hardware has nothing to do with target shifting towards vendor-purpose OSes. I'd say modern OSDev must support modern hardware. And just for the records, IMHO although NVMe is the newer, it is a lot simpler than SATA.
Cheers,
bzt