I for one have been in denial and probably won’t switch away until it literally stops working. So, there’s hope.

The word “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your edit. The replacement for that dependency doesn’t allow an extension to work as an ad blocker as effectively as the thing they are deprecating. This is deliberate.

Boot the laptop from a USB memory stick that has a Linux installer on it.

But in this context, desktop includes laptops. People still buy those.

I have fond memories of using my N900. But I would not have described it as well working :) It worked, sure, but not particularly well.

Only the April releases in even years are LTS

It seems like you are trying to protect against a compromise of the user’s device. But if their device is compromised then their session is compromised after auth anyway and you aren’t solving much with extra auth factors.

If by magic you mean it will automatically record gigabytes of ads for you right out of thin air and sprinkle them throughout all the content…

OTA is unwatchable.