Checked exceptions were a great idea which are still, to this day, unfairly maligned.

I don't necessarily disagree, I wasn't making a judgement positively or negatively.

This is the approach taken in git https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

I've been doing remote development over RDP for the past 3 or so years. The one problem I have is if my internet is having a bad day the latency makes using something with a UI like IntelliJ unbearable at which point I just use vim over ssh.

I'm actually somewhat glad I got "baited" into watching it. I don't think I would have been as likely to watch it had it included toolchain.

Just give me the Windows XP UI

Is there any laptop manufacturer that doesn't ship complete bloat/mal/spy/ware in their products?

I'm going to guess when OEMs ship Linux (Dell, Lenovo, System76, etc...) there's no bloatware. No bloatware on Apple except their OS ;-). But yeah, it's shocking. When I bought my laptop (an Acer Swift 3) it was borderline unusable with Windows and the standard install (wasn't even using native resolution, like WTF!?). Thankfully runs perfectly and looks great with Linux (even suspend, fingerprint reader, bluetooth, etc...).

Probably not Framework or Apple? Haven't experienced these two yet, but don't almost all windows laptops come with McAfee? Removing it is a pain.

That is actually a good question. I am slowly starting to prepare to purchase a laptop for my wife. Lenovo is basically out based on principle here, but can I realistically convince her to use System76, which seems less bloat-oriented? I honestly don't know. It is not like she needs a powerful machine, but I simply do not want to support a customer-hostile company.

System76 laptops with Pop OS.

Having individuals own systems seems like a terrible practice. You're essentially creating a single point of failure if only one person understands how the system works.

> I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.

You can run in dedicated tenancy where you have the whole machine or a metal configuration where you also have the whole machine.

That would ruin providers' user:hardware ratios, one of the foundational principals of cloud computing.

On the contrary, certain CSPs did this already (quietly) and further, had already developed hardware mitigations for things like meltdown, spectre and rowhammer.

But did they manage to keep their prices low?

(And those who employed hardware mitigations wouldn't have a problem with user:hardware ratios, would they?)