Radicals are a "natural" extension in a certain sense, just as subtraction and division are. They invert an algebraic operation we often encounter when trying to solve equations handed to us by e.g. physics. I find it understandable to want to give them a name.
Why not something like "those things we can solve with Newton"? As you note Newton is broadly applicable; one would hope, given how popular the need to invert an exponent is, that something better (faster, more stable) if more specific than Newton might be created. It is hard to study a desired hypothetical operation without giving it a name.
On a related note, how come we don't all already have the names of the 4th order iterative operation (iterated exponents) and its inverse in our heads? Don't they deserve consideration? Perhaps, but nature doesn't seem to hand us instances of those operations very often. We seemingly don't need them to build a bridge or solve some other common practical engineering problem. I imagine that is why they fail to appear in high school algebra courses.
> Both companies seem to monetize clickstream data and personal information from users who probably didn't give informed consent.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. During Rand's tenure Moz was a subscription business selling access to marketing analytics tools. Those tools focused on the structure of the clients' sites themselves rather than any analytics they might have consumed.
Source: I worked at Moz for several of those years, and helped maintain those tools.
Been using a FP4 in Washington State USA under T-Mobile for about 6 months now. Bought it from a British reseller.
Very occasionally I need to bounce the cellular connection, I suspect because I land on an unsupported band/channel. Otherwise LineageOS runs on it like a charm.
To be clear, it could place calls and run a web browser on mobile data. The device was very much a phone.
It falls down (of course) at the larger list of secondary use cases many take for granted. For me it was mobile navigation, though it would also still hard crash noticeably often. I do expect the crashes at least to be fixed next time I look.
> You can actually install Linux on these old phones, the technical restrictions are long since broken. But there is no funding to make something usable using this capability.
I gave postmarketos a shot for 6 months or so, and sadly I have to agree that it's not ready for daily driving, even by experienced users.
This fairphone 4 on the other hand with lineage 20 looks like it will keep me going for a few more years.