The goal is to fully control your environment and not to expecting some unexpected updates.

User is the one who must choose update policy. If user is choosing to not update then it's their own problem and no manufacturer has the right to deside otherwise.

Automatic updates are a good default, you can always disable them if you don't want them.

Good default is to ask users about their preferences explicitly and not to hide that kind of settings anywhere.

Most users are computer illiterate, so they would choose to not auto-update to skip the hassle, and then never manually update anyways.

Every FireFox install comes with auto-update enabled.

Nope, mine on linux doesn't auto-update itself, though I update it diligently, but manually

In the past I would have agreed with you. Sadly there are "updates" which remove functionality.

Thank you, without that link I was unable to understand what to do and was simply clicking on canvas.

I remember a sci-fi novel from the 60s or 70s, where a forgotten punch card was the only artifact left over from aliens long gone.

I think that something similar awaits modern science fiction in 50 years.

I'm reading Red Mars at the moment, written in the 1990s and set in the 2030s, and a cluttered lab is described as having piles of floppy disks lying around. So, yeah.

Wow. They even don't want to pretend that videos are for viewing.

Four bricks and a jack I guess.

There are contracts for years and years ahead so I doubt current price changes will impact Apple or any other major client.

Contracts are what they are, but they don't preclude discussions like "if we honor this as-is, it leads to a situation where we have no incentive to value you as a customer".

Firm orders years in advance are in general far more valuable than much more expensive orders today. With the years in advance orders you can make plans around them.

It is funny to read this because of so many redditors will comment on every facebook related post how good their life become after ditching that social network. And they are immediately forgetting about other social network (reddit) they currently use.

Reddit seems more like an antisocial network.

I would say it more like site that has some sort of glare of anonymity. That sort of anonymity ables person to be a bit of antisocial (e.g. not everyone would be happy to connect their real life identity to reddit account) but still it is social network.

But there is no network of users on reddit, HN or other similar forums.

Such nonsense as AI moderation will force everyone to be good but good only in terms of some very narrow cultural norms with no respect to other cultures.

And since practices like these only growing it will become norm in near future.

Not only AI.

Spanish speakers have gotten into trouble for using the Spanish word for black in other contexts, like:

British audience misunderstanding Spanish phrase by an Uruguayan player.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9104039/M...

https://elpais.com/deportes/2020-12-23/gracias-negrito-la-ac...

German players misunderstanding Spanish word:

https://apnews.com/article/sports-2020-tokyo-olympics-africa...?

https://twitter.com/Romein0omatic1/status/141646122833191322...

Yes, it's just sad that some people start judging beforehand, implying malicious behavior rather than misunderstanding.

And other people want to be offended, even when there is no insult, just different cultural norms.

That last link is the distilled essence of Twitter to me. A white woman from America telling a black person that he doesn't understand what a black person's perspective would be on the topic of racial slurs and how they [mis]translate across languages.