Stopped reading at "Amazon".

Sweden of all places? What happened in the last decade that Sweden's slowly losing the fame of country to follow in social aspects?

instead of taking responsibility

This is why, they prefer to shift the blame in case it hits the fan. That's all, that's it.
They don't care about code quality, maintainability or whatever.

Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is pretty hard-scifi.
Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space not so much but very entertaining.
Edit: for light reading Stross's Saturns Children is fun.

Bring back the MiniDisk!

Won't work without setup?

You wouldn't download a clone.

Get an old car instead?

an SSD instead of an HDD

I'd rather search for upgradeability, i.e., non-soldered RAM, easy access to HDD, maybe replace the optical drive with an HDD caddy, etc...

Misread Dell for a second there and was wondering why were they screwing around with ASCII...

I thought OpenSUSE is German, so why would you export it?

The only rationale is that it ships with cryptography that's made in 'murica and probably stored in US servers, hence the export warning.

This happens every time a company focus shifts from building a good product to appeasing the shareholder gods. Capitalism kills.