I think the memory stuff is pretty good nowadays. I'm sure I saw modern C++ can have a garbage collector. And the syntax is only runelike until you learn it, like any language really. As an industry C# developer I've recently taken up C++ as a hobby to better learn the workings of low level code and I've been enjoying it so far.
My gaming pc has just switched over to bazzite (as I use it like a console/htpc). Been wanting to do it for ages but needed to get an amd card beforehand for the best experience. Windows really started to grind my gears in the last few months too.
They removed it so they could make standard users reliant on the recommended feed so they're more likely to watch high earning ad-backed videos.
But I'm stuck of how short sighted their recommended algorithm is, it only takes into account the very recent videos you've watched so over time you get out of touch of old subscriptions unless they somehow go viral again or you search them up explicitly.
That doesn't let you log in with a Google account though does it? YouTube is my primary source of entertainment and I mostly watch it on tv nowadays and across other devices, I can't go with an option with a "local" account.
Biggest YouTube feature i miss was putting channels into folders so you could put all of your diy channels into one feed. I've not seen that replicated anywhere yet
I hate that you're right. The general public moved away from keeping phones for 3-5 years, sometimes more to replacing broken glass sandwiches every other year if they're lucky.
Full on empathy for all things. Sometimes it even bleeds into inanimate objects.