The way I see it, it's a washing machine. It shouldn't need firmware updates.

Yup even Android, Chrome on Android supports WebUSB so I usually use it to flash different firmware to my Nintendo Switch on the go.

It's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp

To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually

youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.

One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.

I do! I have a separate Apple ID for services like iMessage than I do for the App Store. I can't log into more Apple IDs than that in settings though.

My school (UC San Diego) already has a mobile app with our student IDs on it. You can add it to your mobile wallet on both iOS/Android I believe (on iOS it took some fiddling with PassBook before it showed up for me). It's pretty convenient but I'm never really in a situation with my phone/watch and not my wallet.

It's a quote from the linked post

My bad. I was tired when I skimmed the article and OP's comment wasn't quoted. Still, I find that statement very surprising.

I also want my software to "just work" - and in that sense I like Windows. But I don't like the telemetry and anti-user practices and that's enough for me to use Linux. I've never tried PopOS though, but after this post I might.

Thanks! It actually ended up being pretty interesting.