An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.
With a file manager, you'll probably only be able to find a book from its author, and title. If you have a small collection, this is fine.
When your collection grows though, issues start to show up. Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc... While you could always integrate these in your filename/directory structure, with the help of symlinks, it's very cumbersome to manage and use.
You seem to have forgotten the extremely agressive marketing from Google. At some point, practically all major free software was bundled with Chrome, which installed by default. It was almost similar to malware in its persistence, and adopted many dark patterns just for the opportunity to get on your PC.
I think it has more to do with how thoughtless downvoting/upvoting can be in some implementations. But this isn't inherent to the upvote system. Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency.
Chrome was one of the last to actually implement this feature. It took 8 years (!), and Animation Policy (part of the accessibilityFeatures api) still doesn't work that great, and is only available via extensions.
It's actually the opposite, Opera (Presto) was stricter in its adherence to standards. It was the first/second (depending on OS) to pass the acid 2 tests, and constantly was among the top scorers.
That said, there were often compatibility problems on various websites, because they favored IE (which wasn't standards compliant), and rarely if ever tested on Opera.
I tend to agree on all your points. But when a site I need to browse does require JS, simply "turning it on" is, in my opinion, much too lax. You really need more granularity in managing javascript than the binary enable/disable feature available on browsers: namely javascript blocking extensions (noscript, umatrix, etc...). Being able to block
3rd party javascript is invaluable, for example.
I agree with the gp that consecutive full reboots definitely shouldn't be necessary. That Windows forces your hand on when to reboot just worsens the case.
The state of Windows update is terrible to me. Say what you will about Linux, but updating on most distros is a breeze compared to Windows.
It's weird how no one disputes the term quality in the title. Why is technology-based playtime not considered "quality"? Doesn't it demonstrate a biased view of the issue?
Don't get me wrong, I also think there might be a problem in how kids grow up nowadays. But in my opinion, it lies more in the variety of entertainment offered to youth, rather than mobile phones/internet/video games being bad.
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